That’s Still Home’: Constructing Second-Generation Place Attachment and Place Identity via Time Work

Publication Date

March 2019

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

The Sociological Quarterly

Volume

60

Issue

4

DOI

10.1080/00380253.2019.1580540

Abstract

This article argues that nativity talk and post-displacement interaction talk are key time-work mechanisms through which 1.5- and second-generation Louisiana migrants construct place identity and place attachment. Examining in-depth interviews with 22 1.5.- and second-generation Great Migration-era Louisiana migrants, the article empirically demonstrates the process that participants use to construct narratives of place attachment and place identity in terms of (1) associations with home, (2) a lack of substitutability, and (3) pride in place. The two mechanisms have implications for understanding how both international and internal migrants engage in time work to connect with their homelands.

Keywords

1.5/second generation, place attachment, place identity, time work, internal migration, African Americans/Black Americans, Louisiana Creoles

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