Semi-Cosmopolitan Transnational Students

The Identity Work of Transnational Students at an Elite Dominican School

Bibliographic Data

ID12763273
AuthorsAprille J Phillips (0000-0002-2893-0061, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume17
Issue2
Pages121-135
Publication date2017-02-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latinos and Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-771X • E-ISSN: 1534-8431
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15348431.2017.1282368
OpenAlexW2590734352
LanguageEN
References cited18

The Dominican Republic has a substantial history of transnational movement to the US that affects more than one generation of transnationals, whose lives, as described by Smith (1994), are ‘neither “here” nor “there” but at one both “here” and “there”’(p. 17). While the Dominican transnational narrative has often been described as transnationalism from below (Smith and Guarnizo, 1998), the following case studies of transnational, but relatively privileged, youth require rethinking that framework. Participants describe a semi-cosmopolitan identity that has been shaped by their comparative experiences in more than one locale

Elite · Identity (music · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology

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