Learning to be Australian: Adaptation and Identity Formation of Young Taiwanese-Chinese Immigrants in Melbourne, Australia

Abstract

Most immigrant parents cannot or will not send their children back home.They rely instead on the strength of their community or of their family to help preserve some connection with the old country and, through these, some semblance of parental authority.They take their children to church or temple, surround them with relatives, pepper them with proverbs in the home language, and sing karaoke with them in an effort to stem dissonant acculturation.