1. Objectifs

Intentions :
L’objectif de l’auteure est d’explorer comment se construit l’identité de la première génération immigrante sud-asiatique au Canada.

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
Données documentaires diverses

Type de traitement des données :
Réflexion critique

3. Résumé

« This study explores identity construction for first-generation South Asian youth growing up in the Canadian diaspora. Attention is placed on the influence of competing medias in shaping hybrid or dual identities that blend the home and mainstream cultures. This study takes particular interest in what is not being represented. The images of South Asians portrayed by Western media and Bollywood characterize only a slice of the South Asian population, homogenizing an heterogeneous group of peoples. This study explores the effect that the homogenization process has on South Asian-Canadian youth that are misrepresented in Hollywood and unrepresented in Bollywood through a phenomenological examination of lived experience through autoethnography. » (p. 2) L’auteure s’attarde, à maintes reprises dans le mémoire, à la famille comme une dimension identitaire importante.