ENG research proposal

This assignment requires students to use the ideas from our readings to develop a research project on the experiences of the young adult children of immigrants in the United States (generation 1.5 and/or second generation). Your purpose in Assignment is to devise your own argument about your chosen subject and to support your argument using your own ethnographic research and various sources. This assignment requires you to identify a specific topic on your own and to do ethnographic research and library research in developing your arguments: you must include direct citations from at least one course reading, at least three (3) sources from the library databases, and some of your own ethnographic research. In your essay, you should formulate a clear and focused thesis and provide a detailed account of your evidence.

You cannot write something meaningful about all aspects of the lives of the children of immigrants in the United States, but you can make a significant argument about one or two issues in connection with generation 1.5 and/or second-generation immigrants.

The authors that we have read make a number of arguments regarding the young adult children of immigrants. In “Development of Ethnic Identity in Young Adults from Immigrant Families,” Olena Nesteruk et al. argue that fluency in their heritage language helps second-generation immigrants build a strong bicultural identity (473). In “Identity Constructions and Negotiations among 1.5- and Second-Generation Nigerians,” Janet T. Awokoya points out that stereotype-based portrayals of Africa in the media have a negative effect on the identity development of the children of Nigerian immigrants. In “Behind the Myth of the Matriarch and the Flagbearer,” Angie Y. Chung asserts that, in Korean and Chinese immigrant families, “the oldest sons and daughters feel gendered pressures to act as cultural carriers of family name and family culture” (47). In “Millennial Children of Immigrant Parents,” Ekaterina Yazykova and Jill D. McLeigh observe that new media supported by the Internet allow second-generation immigrants to develop a transnational identity (S39). In “New Kind of Ellis Island as Second-Generation Immigrants Land on College Campuses,” Marcia Drew Hohn and Denzil Mohammed argue that having entrepreneurial parents encourages many second-generation immigrants to go to graduate school. Hohn and Denzil comment, “Such involvement [in their parents’ businesses] meant a tremendous amount of responsibility, engendering a work ethic that helped steer them toward graduate school.”

In this Essay, you need to develop your own argument in connection with the experiences of adolescent and/or adult children of immigrants in the United States. You may want to examine one or two issues in connection with identity development or the stages in the process of identity development (ethnic, bicultural, transnational and/or American identity). You may want to consider how knowledge of the heritage language, the ability to code switch, phenotype, birth order, and/or gender affect the identity development in this population. You may want to consider the roles that family members, teachers, the ethnic community, and/or the media play in this process. You may want or examine a particular struggle that many second-generation immigrants contend with, for example, mental health, poverty, marriage choice (coethnic or not), not being considered an “authentic” American or _______ (intra-ethnic discrimination). You may want to develop an argument in connection with second-generation immigrants’ experiences with college or as children of entrepreneurs.

Length：2 pages

Organize your research proposal clearly. Use headings to identify each part of your proposal:

Thesis:

Major claim one:

Major claim two:

Library source（3 research）: