Strategic Transformation: Cultural and Gender Identity Negotiation in First-Generation Vietnamese Youth

Abstract

This article explores the various ways in which recent

Value orientations and motivational interference in school-leisure conflict: The case of Vietnam

“…Education has an esteemed position within the Vietnamese society. Learning and teaching in Vietnam is highly structured and centrally regulated (Stritikus & Nguyen, 2007).…”

Racial/Ethnic Disparities and Culturally Competent Health Care Among Youth and Young Men

“…A small qualitative study of gender identity development among recently immigrated Vietnamese American high school students reported that these youths' culture and gender identity formation was complex and dynamic (Stritikus & Nguyen, 2007). The youth constructed their own gender identities, which fit with their particular social contexts, strategically adopting elements of Vietnamese and mainstream American cultural norms in a process described as "selective acculturation," which was different across genders.…”

Academic and Social Adjustment of High School Refugee Youth in Newfoundland

“…Goldstein's participants' use of Cantonese in a Canadian high school, which was not legitimated by the school policies, could be considered a means of constructing and investing in peer social capital in order to achieve academic success and meet social needs. Stritikus and Nguyen (2007) maintained that to better understand how immigrant students adapt to the host school culture, it is necessary to account for their gender identity interpretation. They studied the transitions of 30 Vietnamese immigrant students to American schooling and the ways in which they formed cultural and gender identities.…”