Inheritance
An Intergenerational Story of Greek-Canadian Success, by Angeline Antonakos Boswell
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7635529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luke Kernan (0000-0002-7557-3052, University of Victoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropologica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0254-9212 • E-ISSN: 2224-6428 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.18357/anthropologica64120221585 |
| OpenAlex | W4280641837 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
T he immigration story carved out by Antonakos Boswell within Inheritance (2020) is one that many Canadian families of settler origins will be able to appreciate. Most of them, I would wager, have pondered over the intimate circumstances and troubles around how their families immigrated to Canada as fourth-to-third generation settlers. These stories as a living, oral archive may be rudimentary, distant, and unclear to their members and familial networks, but they run deep with potency as Antonakos Boswell (2020: 105) demonstrates in reminding the ethnography's reader of their ramifications from one generation to the next. And, in briefly pausing between the pages, I could not help but wonder if one of my own familial lineages-those exiled from Russia as Doukhobors and who painfully found their way into Canada-followed a similar pattern of capital accumulation priorities: such that, my ancestors, like many other settler-immigrant families, struggled through each successive generational transition by stockpiling wealth (security), then education, and finally emotional well-being if they were lucky enough to make it big or simply break even in Canada. And, pausing further within that line of flight, I surrender to thoughts of how much first-generation immigrants have sacrificed through their unfathomable work efforts, energies, and magnanimous souls and will continue to do so in pursuing an unfathomable level of hope and moxie for a better life
Art · Biology · Genealogy · Inheritance (genetic algorithm) · Sociology · Genetics · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Medical History and Research
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |