Place And Identity Changes Based On Human Mobility Essay
Place and identity: Identity Changes based on human Mobility
On the impact of globalisation, ‘place-based’ identities has been challenged by identities associated with human mobility. This annotated bibliography is a comprehensive overview to examine the relevance of place and identity beginning with the topic for the coming essay. It ranges from the accounts of the importance of a relationship between place and identity as an introduction, extends to how mobility impacts to change one’s identity and finally suggests some of the examples related to the changes. Walker and Taylor introduce the bond between those two. Mao and Shen stress on the social network as a factor to change cultural identity in expatriates and Bagnall determines changes in International students’ perceptions of identity. (114 words)
Bagnall, Nigel. Global Identity in Multicultural and International Educational Contexts. New York: Routledge, 2015. Print.
Bagnall’s ten years longitudinal study on adolescent subjects, typically international mobility students, reveals how identity formation be created in this crucial lifetime and challenged by mobility as a global phenomenon. Throughout the interviews with the global nomads, his studies ascertain that most of them were having trouble with a sense of …show more content…
The authors explain that as the lack of attachment to the home country creates instability in their psychological state, so expatriates begin to seek out the new bond with the host-country. In this process, Mao and Shen underscored the role of social networks that provides them strong tie such as new cultural values, behaviors and knowledge. This study is useful as it shows that one’s identity can be variable by mobility rather than place-based identity as most think it is readily solid property. (114
On the impact of globalisation, ‘place-based’ identities has been challenged by identities associated with human mobility. This annotated bibliography is a comprehensive overview to examine the relevance of place and identity beginning with the topic for the coming essay. It ranges from the accounts of the importance of a relationship between place and identity as an introduction, extends to how mobility impacts to change one’s identity and finally suggests some of the examples related to the changes. Walker and Taylor introduce the bond between those two. Mao and Shen stress on the social network as a factor to change cultural identity in expatriates and Bagnall determines changes in International students’ perceptions of identity. (114 words)
Bagnall, Nigel. Global Identity in Multicultural and International Educational Contexts. New York: Routledge, 2015. Print.
Bagnall’s ten years longitudinal study on adolescent subjects, typically international mobility students, reveals how identity formation be created in this crucial lifetime and challenged by mobility as a global phenomenon. Throughout the interviews with the global nomads, his studies ascertain that most of them were having trouble with a sense of …show more content…
The authors explain that as the lack of attachment to the home country creates instability in their psychological state, so expatriates begin to seek out the new bond with the host-country. In this process, Mao and Shen underscored the role of social networks that provides them strong tie such as new cultural values, behaviors and knowledge. This study is useful as it shows that one’s identity can be variable by mobility rather than place-based identity as most think it is readily solid property. (114