ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how these connections develop new kinds of experience, which challenge the ways we think about the relationship between the self, identity labels and society. Here we examine the labels applied to young migrants and the questions they routinely have to endure about their origins, but also the academic preoccupation with hyphenated identities and cultural hybridity. Through their experience we develop an appreciation of the texture and complexity of their mobile and increasingly globalised lives. This is summed up by Charlynne when she says: ‘I leave pieces of myself in places and pieces of the places I’ve lived [in] are left in me.’
