SOC375H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Color Blindness, Code-Switching, Victim Blaming
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Research paper: start thinking about it, email ta about topic for clarification. Transnationalism: emigrate to a country, and when you arrive you maintain ties to homeland (economic, political, social) Immigrants tend to result in sharp permanent changes to host country. Easier for immigrants today than a generation ago. Idea from past is once you leave, you become absorbed into new culture. Definition: sustained ties across borders that result from immigration patterns and refugees. Makes colonialism, imperialism, current relations that effect identity and migration/immigration. Approach examines how regular people live their lives across boarders. Formation of new kinds of ethnic communities. Territory of state which they are settled (bottom point) Overlapping, multiple definitions and identities people have of themselves. Speaking a language at home, then leaving and using proper english: allows individuals to engage with new society and old society, other ex. Code-switching: become incorporated into canadian society, adopting a more western lifestyle.
