Titlebook: Learning to Belong in the World; An Ethnography of As Tomoko Tokunaga Book 2018 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018 Asian American yout

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Tomoko Tokunaga beyond collective systems like the population census or the collection of statistics, which have received the lion’s share of attention, numbers and the technologies of recording and classification have been studied more than the papers and policing that constituted the direct interface between the

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Introduction: Focusing on the Experiences of Asian American Girls,nd attachment in the borderlands. Their stories reveal the possibilities and constraints in the lives of many diasporic youth, specifically girls, and provide essential perspectives to understand what it means to grow up in an interconnected world.

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Searching for Belonging In-Between Homelands,d binary way, what was home and what was not. Both complex and dichotomous thinking were strategies, acts of agency and resistance, to manage their borderland positioning. This chapter illuminates their sophisticated skills, ability, and knowledge in navigating multiple senses of belonging and non-b

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Creating , In-Between School Walls,hybridity, and “Asianized” the community. This chapter sheds light on the girls’ creativity and improvisational skills to collectively invent their own community where they could feel a sense of personal and cultural belonging in the midst of multiple structural constraints.

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Fostering Belonging and Identity at a Community-Based Organization,’s validation of youth culture such as incorporating popular culture in their programming. This chapter describes creative ways in which the girls use resources, network, and support of AAYO, an alternative site of learning, to foster belonging and identity as they inhabit the borderlands.

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Forming Identity and Girlhood Through Consumer Culture, acknowledging its multiplicity and complexity. The girls also conveniently adopted . goods into a natural girlhood style acknowledged in the United States and developed a hybridized femininity. While hanging out at malls and consuming goods might be dismissed as a typical teenage behavior, this cha

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Lessons and Messages from Borderland Dwellers,ty of the girls’ lives in-between, illuminates the terrains of agency, expands sites of learning and belonging, and reveals intersectional differences. I also provide educational recommendations about the ways to develop thriving educational spaces for immigrant youth.