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Single or chimeric ethnic identity? Self-identifications of 1.5-generation Filipinos in France

par Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion
Editeur scientifique Um, Khatharya;Gaspar, Sofia
Référence People on the move: recent perspectives on Southeast Asian migration, Sussex Academic Press, Eastbourne, page (3-66)
Publication Publié, 2015

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Résumé :

The labor migrations of fathers and mothers within or from Southeast Asia often result in parent-child separations that end either when migrant parents return definitively to their country of origin or when they make their children immigrate in their receiving country. In the latter case, the so-called “left-behind” children suddenly become “1.5-generation immigrants”, defined as migrants’ children who themselves migrate and arrive in their receiving country between the ages of five and eighteen and have therefore experienced schooling successively in both their country of origin and their host country. Given this peculiar experience of growing up in two socio-cultural contexts, how do these migrants define themselves and construct their individual and collective identities in their receiving country? This chapter addresses this question through a case study of the “1.5-generation Filipinos” in France. Results of ethnographic fieldwork among Filipino immigrant population in the French capital indicate that two groups exist within this generation in terms of self-identification: those with “single” Filipino identity and those with “chimeric” Filipino-French identities. These modes of self-identification are founded on the following references: the heart, mind, actions, and physicality. They are also influenced by various contexts and factors such as their age at the time of immigration, their migration status in France, their school experiences, their religious belonging, and the social groups they frequent.