Citation

Rajiva M. Can. Rev. Sociol. Anthropol. 2006; 43(2): 165-183.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, University of Toronto Press)

DOI

10.1111/j.1755-618X.2006.tb02218.x

PMID

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Abstract

Until recently, research on South Asian women has focussed almost exclusively on the immigrant experience; however, scholars have now begun to explore the differences between immigrant and second-generation identities. What remains unclear is how age, as a relation of power, asserts itself in diasporic contexts. For instance, how is modern Western adolescence a key period of racialized identity development? Building on Twine's concept of the "boundary event," I analyse second-generation South Asian girls' stories of difference making during adolescence, examining the work done by peer culture, friends and even family/community to remind girls of their racial and cultural difference.