Post-Memorial Expressions of Children of Southeast Asian Refugees as Manifestations of Care

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Seventeen
  In Roundtable Session: Roundtable Three: Reframing of Status Quo and Inspirations for Furthering the Conversations (Table 10)

Abstract

The experiences of refugees and their children, contribute to a more complex narrative of remembrance, citizenship, and belonging in the United States. This project engages narrative inquiry and participatory visual methodologies to explore how the children of Southeast Asian (SEA) refugees make meaning of their family histories and themselves through negotiating generational memories. This paper focuses on the postmemorial expressions of my participants and how these creations provide insight to how they demonstrate care within their engagements with their families’ histories. The term “postmemorial expressions” refesr to any of the ways that participants created and conveyed an understanding of their family’s past. The postmemorial expressions that participants shared in this project showcase their care—both as a noun and a verb.

Author

• Van Anh Bui-Tran, San Jose State University
  Presenting Author