IICAS South Asia Studies Speaker Series Presents:

Sujata Sriram
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, UC San Diego

“Identity of Second Generation Indian Adolescents in the United States: A Study of the Second Generation”

Monday, May 9, 2011
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Eleanor Roosevelt College Admin Bldg (ERC), Room 115
UC San Diego

Register at: http://iicas.ucsd.edu/speaker-series/registration.html

Sujata Sriram will discuss her Fulbright Research Scholar research which examines how second generation Indian-American adolescents negotiate varying pathways in defining their identity. On the one hand are the imperatives of inter-relatedness and connections that come from their families and familial culture. On the other hand, there are the demands of individualism and self-sufficiency that come from the host society in which they have been born. It is in the increasingly multicultural environment in the United States of America that Indian-American adolescents develop an identity, with an important facet being cultural identity. Sriram has carried out a qualitative study with second-generation Indian adolescents, born in the United States of America, in the age group of 13-25 years, along with one parent. Her study tries to understand how the adolescents construct their identities as they negotiate the spaces of home, school, the peer group and neighborhood. Sriram also studies the role of the family in the definition of being Indian.

Sujata Sriram is a Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellow, 2010-11, at the Department of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego. She is working on a project that examines the identity of second generation Indian adolescents and youth in the San Diego area. Sriram is currently an Associate Professor in the Centre for Human Ecology, School of Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and has been at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) from 2003. Prior to her appointment at TISS, she was Reader in the Department of Child Development, Lady Irwin College, Sikandra Road, University of Delhi, Delhi.

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The IICAS South Asia Studies Speaker Series at UC San Diego is sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS). IICAS promotes interdisciplinary research, discussion and information exchange on international, comparative, and cross regional topics.

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