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Identifier	Thesis 2203
Author	Szabo, Aniko, 1983-
Title	The Hungarian-Americans : how the first and second-generations renegotiate their identities to gain a sense of place in the United States
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2012; *
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	When immigrants arrive in their new host country, they find themselves surrounded by a completely different culture, and they must go through a renegotiation process in which they have to decide how much of their own culture to maintain and how much of the new culture to embrace. In developing their two identities and balancing their loyalties to both countries, they either come to find a sense of place within the host country or they come to find a sense of placelessness. Furthermore, there is a difference between how immigrants and their children move through this process, the set of struggles that each group faces, and the end result in terms of finding a sense of place. This particular research was conducted in order to investigate how first and second-generation Hungarian-Americans renegotiate their identities in order to gain a sense of place in the United States. First, existing research was presented on the Hungarian national identity, what it means to be American from an immigrant’s point of view, identity renegotiation, and sense of belonging. Next, a research survey was conducted on thirty-two first-generation Hungarian-Americans and twenty-two second-generation Hungarian-Americans, in which participants were asked to define their two identities, to specify the Hungarian markers of identity that they still practice, comment on the struggles they endured, rate their feelings of belonging to and exclusion from American culture, and to finally rate how Hungarian they feel and how American they feel. As predicted, the first-generation connected more with their Hungarian identity, while the second-generation connected more with their American side. However, both had strong feelings for their other culture as well. Therefore, it was concluded that the two generations have essentially both adjusted well into American culture and have found a sense of place, while still maintaining their Hungarian heritage.
Subject	Hungarian Americans -- Ethnic identity
Department	Department of International and Area Studies
Advisor	Benfield, Richard W.
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
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