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2017

Family

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Troubling The Functional Dysfunctional Family Binary Through The Articulation Of Functional Family Estrangement.Pdf, Jordan Allen Sep 2017

Troubling The Functional Dysfunctional Family Binary Through The Articulation Of Functional Family Estrangement.Pdf, Jordan Allen

Jordan Allen

Critical perspectives remain largely absent from the study of family communication. To interrogate the power of discourse to construct knowledges about how family is and should be, we drew on Judith Butler’s poststructural theory of performativity to critically analyze the common experience of family estrangement. We argue that professional discourse performatively constructs the functional family binary by equating ongoing, open, and positive family communication with functional family identity, while constructing estrangement as unnatural, dysfunctional, and in need of intervention. We then illustrate how some individuals who self-identify as estranged from a family member “trouble” the functional/dysfunctional …

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Interview With A Second Generation Male Chinese Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis Mar 2017

Interview With A Second Generation Male Chinese Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis

Lisa Roy-Davis

Male immigrant from China discusses his experience living and coping with having an immigrant mother. He tells stories explaining his struggle to find his place in both America and Chinese culture. Also relates difficulties he and his sister have with their Chinese mother's cultural practices and beliefs. Describes his and his families coming to terms with his sexuality.

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Interview With A First Generation Male Chinese Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis Mar 2017

Interview With A First Generation Male Chinese Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis

Lisa Roy-Davis

Male immigrant from Hong Kong who immigrated to America for college. Discusses the conditions and differences between growing up in Hong Kong and growing up in America. He also relates his immigrations story, and how America was not what he was expecting from watching American media. Further he discusses his wedding in America and his wife's community involvement.

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Interview With A First Generation Male Indian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis Mar 2017

Interview With A First Generation Male Indian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis

Lisa Roy-Davis

Male immigrant from India who immigrated to America for college. He begins his interview describing the social and cultural differences he had to deal with in America. Then he relates his first experiences in Dallas with discrimination and being mistaken for a Mexican. He also discusses his career in the technology field in America. Lastly he discusses bring his family to America and the issues he and they faced in assimilating into American culture.

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Interview With A First Generation Female Mexican Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis Mar 2017

Interview With A First Generation Female Mexican Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis

Lisa Roy-Davis

Female immigrant from Mexico discusses the importance of passing on cutlural and familial traditions to our children. Also discusses the differences between jobs, school, and corruption in Mexico and America. Finally expresses what she feels all Americans should understand and know about immigrants coming to this country.

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Interview With A First Generation Female Mexican Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis Mar 2017

Interview With A First Generation Female Mexican Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis

Lisa Roy-Davis

Female immigrant from Mexico who to America for her father's job as Dean of Men at a seminary. She discusses her families reaction to moving to America. She also discusses her families arrival in America. Then she discusses her life as a single woman with a career in Nursing. Lastly she discusses caring for her parents and extended family.

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