Compelling culture
The rhetoric of assimilation among Samoan migrants in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2150342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ilana Gershon (0000-0003-0447-0694, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 787-816 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870701491812 |
| OpenAlex | W2055431997 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
Studies of assimilation tend to focus on whether or not members of a migrant group are adjusting to their new surroundings. This article inverts this focus, asking not how migrant groups adjust, but rather how migrant groups use the language of assimilation to explain generation gaps and other exigencies of migration. This inversion sheds light on the ways a migrant group's epistemological assumptions underlie their understandings of cultural identity, and shape how they might respond to dilemmas caused by migration. Building upon ethnographic fieldwork among Samoan migrants in the United States, the article explores how and why community workers use the rhetoric of assimilation to teach Samoan parents how to raise children in the US context
Assimilation (phonology) · Linguistics · Political science · Rhetoric · Samoan · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Gender Studies · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Philosophy
Voyages
Theorizing Self in Samoa
Sala’Ilua a Samoan Mystery
Lives in Translation
From Polynesia to California
Avoiding Politics
Immigrant Acts
From Grammar to Politics
Remaking the American Mainstream
Aga, Amio and Loto
Imperialism and Samoan National Identity
The New Second Generation
The Ethnography of Imagined Communities
The Italians and the Development of Organized Labor in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States 1880-1914
From Southwestern Journal of Anthropology
Home in the Islands
Migration, Social Change, and Health
The Social Organization of an Urban Samoan Community
When Culture Is Not A System
Reflecting on Loss in Papua New Guinea
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |