Accidental Immigrants and the Search for Home: Women, Cultural Identity, and Community

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Accent, 11, 18, 21, 53, 63, 83, 127, 130–131 Acceptance: of identity change, 110, 113, 117, 150, 156; of immigrant situations, 39, 88, 90, 111, 116, 119, 146, 148–149, 152, 154, 157 (see also Anna: and turning points; Barrett: and turning points; Lisa: and childhood; Lisa: and resolutions; Lisa: and turning points; Shirine: and childhood ; Shirine: and resolutions; Shirine: and turning points); by others, 11, 110 (see also Anna: and transitions; Barrett: and childhood; Barrett: and resolutions; Lisa: and transitions) Accidental immigrants, 3–4, 159n1 Acculturation, 81–82, 89, 113, 154, 160– 161n6 (pt. II) Acculturative stress, 82–86. See also Gender; Social networks Adaptation, 12, 39, 43, 81–82, 89, 113, 148, 154. See also Anna: and resolutions; Anna: and transitions; Lisa: and resolutions ; Shirine: and childhood; Shirine: and transitions Adjustment, 3, 11, 43, 89, 112, 117, 149, 156; and acculturation, 81–82, 113; and life history, 5; and self-reflection, 8. See also Anna: and resolutions; Anna: and transitions; Anna: and turning points; Barrett: and childhood; Lisa: and childhood ; Lisa: and resolutions; Lisa: and transitions; Shirine: and childhood; Shirine: and resolutions; Shirine: and transitions Africa, 19. See also Lisa Agency, 117, 147, 156 Akhtar, Salman, 111 Ambiguity, 88, 110, 132, 137, 151 Anger, 19, 113, 134. See also Hoffman, Eva Anna: and childhood, 12–18; and resolutions , 121–128; and transitions, 43–52; and turning points, 90–95 Anthropology, 6; feminist, 161n3 Anxiety, 26, 36, 50, 85, 98, 113, 135 Appearance, foreign, 8, 39, 85. See also Anna: and transitions Assimilation, 81, 88, 89, 112, 153, 154, 160n8. See also Visits home Barrett: and childhood, 31–39; and resolutions , 140–147; and transitions, 71–80; and turning points, 105–110 Bateson, Mary Catherine, 149 Bauman, Zygmunt, 155 Belonging, 3, 43, 85, 87, 88, 110–120 passim , 156, 160n8; and citizenship, 115; and commitment, 90; emotional need for, 3, 9, 10; and foreigners, 3, 43; and home, 10–11, 87–90, 110, 118, 150, 154, 156–157; meaning of, 5, 10–11, 89, 154; and memory, 89; and politics, 2, 161n2 (pt. III); sense of, 10; and transnationalism, 153; and women, 5, 159n5. See also Anna; Barrett; Lisa; Shirine Berger, John, 157 Bhabha, Homi, 161n7, 161–162n2 (pt. IV) Black Hawk Down, 133 Buffers, 82, 85–86, 153 Bunad, 121–122, 127 Camino de Santiago, 7 Canada, 52–53, 86. See also Lisa Career, 17, 24–25, 36, 108. See also Work Career change, 61–62, 65–66, 78, 143. See also Work INDEX 172 • IndEx Chavez, Hugo, 106 Childhood, relevance of, to understanding immigration, 4, 11, 41 Childhood home, 41, 89, 111 Children: as immigrants, 39–40, 83, 86; of immigrants, 52, 84–85, 129, 151, 153, 155. See also Anna: and resolutions; Anna: and transitions; Lisa: and childhood ; Lisa: and resolutions; Lisa: and transitions; Shirine Christening, 47, 107, 122 Christianity, 3, 84, 86, 88. See also Lisa Christmas, 114, 152. See also Anna: and transitions; Anna: and turning points; Holidays; Lisa: and childhood; Lisa: and transitions; Lisa: and turning points; Shirine: and transitions Citizenship, 115–116, 121, 151, 159n1, 161n2 (pt. III). See also Lisa: and childhood ; Lisa: and resolutions; Lisa: and turning points; Shirine: and transitions Class, 3, 39, 113, 159n2, 161–162n2 (pt. IV). See also Barrett: and childhood; Lisa: and childhood; Shirine: and childhood Climate, 13, 38, 53, 105 “Closely far,” 147–157 Cold War, 30 Commitment, 90, 115–116, 118, 120, 150, 153, 154. See also Barrett: and resolutions ; Barrett: and turning points; Lisa: and resolutions; Lisa: and turning points; Shirine: and transitions Community: imagined, 115; sense of, 8, 11, 114, 121. See also Barrett: and transitions ; Enclaves, cultural and ethnic; Lisa: and resolutions; Lisa: and transitions Connecticut, 114, 148, 154. See also Barrett Cooper, Shirine Arya. See Shirine Cuban American exiles in Miami, 56, 59 Cultural adaptation, 81. See also Adaptation Cultural broker, 78 Cultural identity, 39, 81, 84–85, 126. See also Identity “Culturally homeless,” 39, 40 Cultural shadow, 148 Culture, 6, 80, 81–82, 86, 114, 148; and belonging, 5; exposure to new, 12, 40, 80, 81–82, 84, 89, 148, 153; and gender, 84; and identity, 3; and life stories, 6; loss of, 39, 114; rejection of, 121, 148, 154; and women, 83 Culture bearers, 84 Culture shock, 44, 112 death, 42, 90, 110, 117, 120. See also Anna: and transitions; Anna: and turning points; Barrett: and transitions; Shirine: and transitions; Shirine: and turning points depression, 50, 54, 56, 103, 114. See also Anxiety discrimination, 82, 85...