Success as self-determination: a subject-centred analysis of immigrants’ definitions and perceptions of success.
What does it mean for an immigrant to be successful? Significant research on immigrant integration and success has utilised ‘objective’ measures – such as income, educational attainment, and occupation – to evaluate immigrant (group) success and attainment. But those measures often do not capture de...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 50; no. 10; pp. 2574 - 2594 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=177477685&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 177477685 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1369183X 56F jtl: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies issn: 1369183X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2024 vid: 50 iid: 10 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 177477685 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2232557 ppf: 2574 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.7MB tig: atl: Success as self-determination: a subject-centred analysis of immigrants’ definitions and perceptions of success. aug: au: López, Jane Lilly Williams, Faith J. affil: Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA. Migration Studies, University of San Francisco, CA, USA. su: Autonomy (Psychology) Immigrants Educational attainment Academic achievement Self-esteem sug: subj: Autonomy (Psychology) Immigrants Educational attainment Academic achievement Self-esteem keyword: agency Immigration independence selfdetermination success ab: What does it mean for an immigrant to be successful? Significant research on immigrant integration and success has utilised ‘objective’ measures – such as income, educational attainment, and occupation – to evaluate immigrant (group) success and attainment. But those measures often do not capture details of immigrants’ lived experiences nor their own perceptions of success. We explore this dissonance between objective and subjective understandings of immigrant success by analysing how 46 immigrants describe and evaluate their own and other immigrants’ success. Almost universally, interviewees referenced self-determination – the ability to determine their own circumstances – as the essential component of success. Within this general notion of success, interviewees weigh their current situations against the past to find relative improvements in their self-determination compared to their pre-migration conditions (‘relative self-determination’); see evidence of self-determination in their present circumstances (‘evident self-determination’); and/or foresee their investments in self-determination paying off for descendants in the future (‘prospective self-determination’). Defining success as self-determination creates a broadly flexible and accommodating framework that sets-up success, rather than failure, as the default outcome. Because perceiving oneself as successful can positively affect an individual’s life, accomplishments, and self-esteem, defining success as self-determination may produce meaningful and lasting improvements in immigrants’ and others’ lives. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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