Identity formation of children: The reflection of Taiwanese diaspora women
Event Details
- Date:
- Wednesday, 18 March 2015 - Wednesday, 18 March 2015
- Time:
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Room:
- 305
- UQ Location:
- Skerman Building (St Lucia)
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Associate Professor Chi-Kong Lai
- Phone:
- 56339
- Email:
- c.lai@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Research Cluster for Chinese Entrepreneurial Studies Public Seminars:
Identity formation of children: The reflection of Taiwanese diaspora women
Chair: Professor Liu Hong (Tan Kak Kee Endowed Professor of Asian Studies; Chair, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; a member of the Advisory Board of the Research Cluster for Chinese Entrepreneurial Studies)
Dr Yi-Ping Lo (Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith Business School, Griffith University); Member of the Research Cluster for Chinese Entrepreneurial Studies
Discussant: Chris Yuan
This study indicates diverse influences of everyday life in a family impacting on the identity formation of children. It is focused on the perceptive of Taiwanese diaspora mothers who had received increasing discussion in recent migration literature. When these Taiwanese mothers intend to inculcate their original culture to their children, they strongly emphasize traditional Chinese values and customs, such as respecting seniority, filial piety and politeness. These mothers push their children to know and understand their heritage through leaning and speaking their mother language, Mandarin Chinese. Along with these mothers, the depth of the father’s commitment to his original culture has implicit influence impacting on their family life, such as learning father’s original language and following father’s original dietary culture, values, beliefs and norms. Most mothers also have their specific expectation about children’s behavior, such as responsibility, independence, simpleness and confidence. In sum, these children are expected to balance competing elements of their culture of origin and the need for acculturation into Australian society, during their identity formation. The study concludes that children’s identity is dynamic, and is impacted by various agencies, especially their mother. However, fathers also influence the identity formation of their children through the interaction with the most significant acculturating agent-the mothers. Implications of this research on understandings of the daily life in identity formation of second generation children are discussed.
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