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Intergenerational Conflict, Crime, and Delinquency
Becoming American for immigrant parents versus the second generation is something that has everything to do with leaving one's native place to integrate into another. First generation families experience that: they have those memories of the old country that they take with them. Second generation families do not have that: they have nothing else to compare their present situation to. They do not have the experience of being from any other place. To them, America is their native country. They may still be around family members who are first generation, who remember coming over to America, who speak of the old country and remember its customs -- but the second generation identifies mainly as American -- much more so than those who come to be American after spending some of their lives as something else. The transition for immigrant parents, then, is one that is much more dramatic and meaningful because of the complexity of experience. This paper will discuss what this means for immigrant parents and why it is different for second generation immigrant families.
As Vallejo notes, the immigrant family is not conceived simply: there is no box that the family fits into that defines it. Some are able to incorporate into the American experience more smoothly and easily than others; some are not. It depends greatly on the community into which the family moves, the work that the family does, the connections it makes, the social or civic activity it undertakes. For some, the biggest factor is education. Immigrant parents are less likely to be impacted by an of culture, of values, and of ideals. The immigrant parents can value the old way of doing things -- the way that they learned -- for example, when it comes to religion, to family life, to society and social norms; to ways of speaking, to ways of socializing, etc. Children on the other hand are likely to be cultivated by the American experience, by what they see their American friends doing. Their values are likely to be different from their parents' and they may have different senses of the importance of religion, for example, as a result of their own unique experience growing up in America rather than in the old country. Children of immigrants in America may adopt more liberal views and values -- or ones…
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Vallejo, Jody Agius. 2012. Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican-American
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