'If I'm like Them, They Will Accept Me More': How New Zealand Immigrants Negotiate and Perform Gendered Social Identities

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  • Sonya Hamel University of Otago

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.v0i8.9

Abstract

The study shows participants' gender identity adjustment processes in different domains such as intimate relationships, parent-child relationships and friendship networks. The findings show that these three domains are grounds in which adult long-term immigrants to New Zealand negotiate and construct new gendered identities.

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Author Biography

Sonya Hamel, University of Otago

Sonya Hamel teaches in the University of Otago Language Centre and Foundation Studies Ltd.

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Published

2009-04-05