H-Net Review: Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space

Review of Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space by Faith G. Nibbs, Caroline Brettell. Nashville Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. 240 pp. Reviewed by Maria Kromidas (William Paterson University) [Published on H-Citizenship, September, 2016] Identity and the Second Generation _is an important contribution to the interdisciplinary scholarship of migration, identity, youth, and citizenship. The manner in which theoretical insights emerge from rich ethnographic vignettes, in which participants appear as three-dimensional people, ensures that the volume will serve as a useful text in a variety of undergraduate classrooms, particularly courses in sociology and anthropology of migration, youth, globalization, and citizenship. Although citizenship is explicitly taken up in only a third of the contributions, the politicizing of identity and belonging is a theme throughout the work that will allow scholars and students to make those implicit links.