Sojourning as a wife, a mother and a daughter
A critical autoethnography of a Vietnamese doctoral student in New Zealand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3633448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A N Q Phan (0000-0001-9979-1321, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 114-124 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09589236.2021.1988531 |
| OpenAlex | W3204664662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 29 |
This study is a critical autoethnography in which I recorded how I, as a Vietnamese student pursuing a doctoral degree in New Zealand with accompanying children, navigated between cultures and learned to raise children to be well adaptive to the New Zealand context and at the same time sustained the bond with the Vietnamese heritage. Based on theories of transnationalism, space and place, I explored my own spatial production and place-making process during my first year of candidature when my family had just entered New Zealand. Going beyond the description of the conventional enculturation and the detailed account of social and academic challenges that are normally found in previous literature on international doctoral students, the paper focuses on the way I myself got used to spatial practices outside Vietnam, the way I grew to become ‘a cultural translator’ for my parents, the way I made my home a space of cross-cultural exchanges and inter-generational legacy inheritance. In that sense, my motherhood, daughterhood, and studenthood entangled in a complex network of different cultures, lifestyles and social structures. The paper also features a shift in family dynamics and the reconfiguration of power in a Vietnamese family in New Zealand
Aotearoa · Autoethnography · Enculturation · Kinship · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transnationalism · Vietnamese · Wife · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · History · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics
Dancing into maternity
Leaving children behind for cross‐border education
Intersecting identities of three Asian transnational women doctoral students
Surfacing the conceptualizations of international PhD student agency
In-Betweenness, Mother Guilt, and Juggling Roles
Under the magnolia tree, our youth’
Through guilt and resilience, we author ourselves’
Encounters on the footpath
Hate content and gendered shaming in Vietnamese social media
Ideals and realities
Diasporic Belonging in Religious Spaces
Do Babies Matter?
Thirdspace
Learning the “Language” of Motherhood as International Graduate Students
“Finally, I told my professor I was pregnant.” Becoming new mothers as international graduate students
Globalization and Culture
Do Babies Matter? The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong Careers of Academic Men and Woman
Making Sense of ‘Asian’ Families in the Age of Migration
Transnationalism and identity
Time, Information and Communication Technologies and the Household
Ambient co-presence
A doctorate in a tight compartment
The Times of Migration
Cultural values, moral sentiments and the fashioning of gendered migrant identities
Gender Role Disruption and Marital Satisfaction among Wives of Chinese International Students in the United States
Living Life in Two Worlds
From Immigrant to Transmigrant
Making Space for Graduate Student Parents
The Limits of 'Choice
Identity as a strategy for negotiating everyday life in transience
Making time
The Times of Their Lives
Motherhood in migration
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |