Finding and Making Home: Poems and Reflections of Undergraduate Children of Immigrants

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ABSTRACT

The number of children of immigrants within the United States has grown over the past few decades and more so we are seeing a greater number of these children pursuing a higher education. With a growing number of undergraduate children of immigrants growing, there is a
need to understand how they see themselves as a part of the United States. Previous studies take into consideration how these students navigate higher education, however, there is a lack of research on these students’ larger understanding of belonging within the overall nation. Poetry as data and a process was the grounding methodology that led this study to collect participant poems and interviews that accompanied the researcher’s autoethnographical poem and reflection.

With counter storytelling as the conceptual framework, collected data were examined to provide insight as to why undergraduate children of immigrants have found themselves bringing their parents’ cultural traditions to them and making them their own in the United States.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgement ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… iv
Abstract …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. v
Chapter I: Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1
Statement of the Problem …………………………………………………………………………………… 1
Purpose of the Study………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3
Research Question …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4
Conceptual Framework ……………………………………………………………………………………… 4
Methodology ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 6
Description of Participants ……………………………………………………………………………….. 10
Limitation of the Study …………………………………………………………………………………….. 12
Significance of the Study ………………………………………………………………………………….. 12
Definition of Terms …………………………………………………………………………………………. 13
Chapter II: Review of the Literature ……………………………………………………………………………… 14
Immigration and Education ………………………………………………………………………………. 14
Cultural Citizenship …………………………………………………………………………………………. 16
Creative Writing as Resistance and Healing Work ………………………………………………… 18
Conclusion …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 20
Chapter III: ‘I am an Homage to Home’ ………………………………………………………………………… 21
Participants…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 21
Findings ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 22
Navigating Inherited Trauma ………………………………………………………………….. 22
Connecting through Cultural Practices ……………………………………………………… 25
Building our own Motherland …………………………………………………………………. 28
Conclusion …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 31
Chapter IV: Discussion, Conclusion, and Recommendations …………………………………………….. 33
References ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 35
Appendices ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 39
Appendix A: Prompt Poems ……………………………………………………………………………… 39
Appendix B: Additional Poems …………………………………………………………………………. 48
Appendix C: Researcher’s Prompt Poem …………………………………………………………….. 52