Research Question

The number of immigrants was 272 million in 2019 worldwide and these international immigrants comprise 3.5 percentage of the world population (United Nations, 2019). Even though these numbers are seen as statistics, they are human beings like everyone else; and what makes a human himself/herself is his/her identity. Moreover, most of these immigrants have been in bad circumstances whether in their home countries, while they were migrating or in new countries they have migrated. Therefore, it is clear that migration affects people and their identities as well. Furthermore according to Salomone (2010), identity is a relative construct socially, associated with both individual and others and “For immigrants and their children, the process of forging an identity is filled with contradictions.” (p. 69). Thus, it is really important to find out and acknowledge; to what extent immigration affects people’s identities, what immigrants think about their identities, how immigration affects immigrants’ identities.

References:

Salomone, R. C. (2010). True American : Language, Identity, and the Education of Immigrant Children. Harvard University Press.

United Nations. (2019, September 17). The number of international migrants reaches 272 million, continuing an upward trend in all world regions, says UN. https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/international-migrant-stock-2019.html