The Deaf Immigrant Odyssey: Sacrifices, Loss and Reconciliation
Immigrant; disability
Abstract
This article interrogates the significance of identity to Deaf immigrants, and how their sense of identity transforms when they immigrate to a capitalist nation such as the United States. This article will further examine the “outsider within” among Deaf immigrants seeking to integrate into the Deaf world of the United States, feelings of isolation, and how Deaf immigrants can reconcile this new sense of identity with themselves. Immigration is a complex bio-psycho-social process and the immigrant has a truly complex task in navigating a new and often unfamiliar world. The immigration experience may cause a person to abandon their motherland, which causes deep disturbance within the self, as well as disequilibrium in emotional development.
Keywords: identity, immigration, integration, reconciliation.
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