ABSTRACT
Four themes run throughout this volume: integration, transnationalism, prejudice/ stereotyping, and identity. And while integration and prejudice pose challenges for migrants – whether immigrants, temporary workers, or refugees – transnationalism represents a way in which migrants can retain connections with the homeland, even while adapting to their new environment. in the process, identities evolve, both at the individual level and at the level of the group, although, as Kristine Juul (2011: 238) has pointed out, the first generation of migrants often proves to be impervious to any modification of identity, at least where older persons are concerned. However, younger migrants, and the second generation often combine the new and old cultural identities. in some cases, a post-immigration ethnicity, hyphenated ethnic identities and hybridity emerge as part of these modifications (Madood 2003), while in others, pan-ethnic identity constructions may emerge as a result of identity negotiations, and as an alternative to the localized sense of belonging (Purkayastha 2005).
