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Managing Multiplicity: Adult Children of Post-Independence Nigerians and Belonging in Britain
Social Inclusion ( IF 1.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-03-25 , DOI: 10.17645/si.v8i1.2473
Julie Botticello

Migration remains a contentious and divisive topic, particularly with the rise of xenophobia and far right ideologies, which seek to demonize migrants as neither belonging nor welcome in the host society. This reduction leaves the realities of postcolonial migrants as misunderstood and misrepresented. Particularly misunderstood are the children of post-colonial migrants, who were born and raised in the UK by families seeking to better themselves in the ‘Mother land,’ while also aiming to maintain connectivity to traditions and practices from homelands. For some children born in the UK to Nigerian emigres, family crises precipitated the need for alternative care arrangements, entailing recourse to fostering, boarding schools, or institutional care for periods of time during childhood. Conflicts between British society’s and parents’ cultural values, overt racism and hostility from host society, and differential experiences of extra-family care have impressed upon these children, now adults, both their multiple exclusions and potential belongings. As a result of their traumatic experiences, these adults, now in their 50s and 60s, embody multiculturalism in their abilities to embrace, navigate, and endure in a host country that expresses unwillingness at best and outright hostility at worst toward their presence as UK nationals and progeny of the project of Empire. While continuing to be framed by harsh micro- and macro-conditions, these adult children reveal that belonging can be self-determined through choices on how and with whom they choose to live and grow.

中文翻译:

管理多样性:独立后的尼日利亚人和属于英国的成年子女

移民仍然是一个有争议和分歧的话题,特别是随着仇外心理和极右翼意识形态的兴起,这些现象试图将移民妖魔化,使其既不属于东道国也不属于东道国。这种减少使后殖民移民的现实被误解和歪曲。尤其容易被误解的是后殖民移民的孩子,他们是在英国寻求和发展的家庭,他们希望在“祖国”中改善自己,同时还力图与家乡的传统和习俗保持联系。对于在英国出生的尼日利亚阿联酋人的某些儿童来说,家庭危机催生了对替代照料安排的需求,这要求在儿童时期寻求寄养,寄宿学校或机构照料。英国社会和父母的文化价值观之间的冲突,这些寄宿家庭的种族主义和敌对行为,以及不同的家庭外照料经验给这些孩子(现在是成年人)留下了深刻的印象,包括他们的多重排斥和潜在财产。由于经历了痛苦的经历,这些成年人(现年50到60年代)在接受,导航和忍受所在国的能力中体现了多元文化主义,而在接受国中,他们表现出最好的不愿意和最坏的敌意对作为英国国民的存在和帝国计划的后代。这些成年子女在继续受到严峻的微观和宏观条件的束缚的同时,表明他们的归属感可以通过选择生活和成长方式以及与谁一起选择的方式来自我决定。现在的成年人,包括他们的多重排斥和潜在财产。由于经历了痛苦的经历,这些成年人(现年50到60年代)在接受,导航和忍受所在国的能力中体现了多元文化主义,而在接受国中,他们表现出最好的不愿意和最坏的敌意对作为英国国民的存在和帝国计划的后代。这些成年子女在继续受到严峻的微观和宏观条件的束缚的同时,表明他们的归属感可以通过选择生活和成长方式以及与谁一起选择的方式来自我决定。现在的成年人,包括他们的多重排斥和潜在财产。由于经历了痛苦的经历,这些成年人(现年50和60年代)在接受,接待和忍受所在国的能力中体现了多元文化主义,而在接受国中,他们表现出最好的不愿意和最坏的敌意对作为英国国民的存在和帝国计划的后代。这些成年子女在继续受到严峻的微观和宏观条件的束缚的同时,表明他们的归属感可以通过选择生活和成长方式以及与谁一起选择的方式来自我决定。并在一个东道国中忍受,对他们作为英国国民和“帝国”计划的后裔的到来表现出最好的不愿和最坏的表现。这些成年子女在继续受到严峻的微观和宏观条件的束缚的同时,揭示了归属感可以通过选择生活方式和与谁一起选择的方式来自我决定。并在一个东道国中忍受,对他们作为英国国民和“帝国”计划的后裔的到来表现出最好的不愿和最坏的表现。这些成年子女在继续受到严峻的微观和宏观条件的束缚的同时,揭示了归属感可以通过选择生活方式和与谁一起选择的方式来自我决定。
更新日期:2020-03-25
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