Finding Home in Migration: Montagnard Refugees and Post-migration Identity

• In Event: Deconstructing Mediated Myths of the Marginalized

Abstract

This essay examines post-migration identity of the Montagnards who came to the U.S. as refugees. Particularly, given the salience of home to identity, interview participants’ notions of home space are explored. The study addresses two interrelated questions: How are various dimensions of home experienced and articulated by the Montagnards?; and how do post-migraiton identities expressed through the narratives of home correspond to the frameworks of cross-cultural adaptation and diaspora?

Author

• Etsuko Kinefuchi, Univ of North Carolina, Greensboro