PhD defence: Elizabeth Benedict Christensen
This dissertation qualitatively explores how 1.5 generation undocumented youth experience and cope with their sense of belonging in their everyday lives in the United States. Empirical material reveals that youth’s everyday lives are anything but routine, banal, or relaxed. Youth actively construct their sense of belonging through purposeful actions and avoidance strategies that result from the desire to avoid the negative emotions and experiences caused by their undocumented legal status. Further, their sense of belonging is multifaceted, dynamic, and contingent upon time, space, relation, and context. Youth constantly come in and out of experiences and emotions related to sense of belonging and as such, empirical material helps push the conceptual boundaries of belonging beyond either/or binaries.
Supervisor:
Associate Professor Maribel Blasco
Department of International Business Communication
Copenhagen Business School
Secondary supervisor:
Senior Researcher Eva Ersbøll, PhD
The Danish Institute for Human Rights
Assessment Committee:
Professor Hans Krause Hansen (Chair)
Department of Intercultural Communication and Management
Copenhagen Business School
Assistant Professor Roberto G. Gonzales
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard University
Professor Hanne Warming
Department of Social Sciences and Business
Roskilde University
Thesis:
The thesis is available here.
Reception:
The Doctoral School of Language, Law, Informatics, Operations Management, Accounting and Culture will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in DH 2V.071.