Same-Generation Kinship Networks: A Familial Persistence Tool

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Abstract

This phenomenological study examines the relationships between students of color who attend university simultaneously or close together with same-generation relatives (e.g., siblings or cousins). Extant positive findings reveal this unique kinship provides students with social, familial, and navigational capital in relation to college entrance and persistence. These same-generation kinship networks contribute to persistence, affinity, and sense of belonging for same-generation relatives attending university simultaneously.

Author

• Cherish Shanae Golden, University of Wisconsin - Madison