– Preparation Defining America – Preparation Imaeyen Effiong Capston Proposal || Page 1 generation. Russell Sage Foundation, 2002. Provides a collection of data about the children of immigrants in different contexts. Levitt, Peggy, and B. Nadya Jaworsky. Transnational migration studies: Past developments and future trends. Annu. Rev. Sociol. 33 (2007): 129-156. Summarizes the information (economic, political, cultural, social, and religious) they have gathered about migrant transnationalism. Rumbaut, Rubén G. Ages, life stages, and generational cohorts: decomposing the immigrant first and second generations in the United States 1. International migration review 38.3 (2004): 1160-1205. Discusses the issue with the generalization and grouping of the terms ‘first’ and ‘second’ generations in the US. Kasinitz, Philip, et al. Inheriting the city: The children of immigrants come of age. Russell Sage Foundation, 2009. Research about the risk of downward assimilation and isolation that occurs as immigrants become Americans and how their children experience more success. Word Map: Imaeyen Effiong Capston Proposal || Page 2 For my capstone project, I want to create a conversation around what it means to be a child (or grandchild) of immigrants while living in America. Both of my parents are Nigerian, and I have had the opportunity to be raised in countries such a Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana. As grateful as I am to have lived in these countries, I’ve spent the majority of my years in the United States. I have always had a conflicted view of what my identity was in a cultural context. It often feels like I am a watered-down version of all of the locations I’ve lived in which puts me under a sort of pressure where I feel that I can’t wholeheartedly say I belong to any one place. I plan on creating a documentary that focuses on four individuals who fall under the category of first, second, or third-generation immigrants to see if similarities arise across the board. Questions I will draft to ask during the interview would pertain to ideas about the loss of culture, conformity, and romanticizing a culture they may or may not know much about. Besides the documentary, some of my deliverables may include film posters that convey the idea of combined cultures through mixed media, and overall typographic and graphic elements within the documentary that would create its cohesive feeling. Thumbnail Images There aren’t a lot of images representing my topic, however, here are some images I believe reflect (aesthetically) what I would like my deliverables to look like. Digital collage works by the Guatemalan artist Astrid Torres Illustration by Paige Hall Cover of The Good Immigrant By Banksy Mixed media works by Marina Guiu By Tristan Eaton By Ilias Walchshofer PROJECT BRIEF. For my capstone project, I want to create a conversation around what it means to be a child (or grandchild) of immigrants while living in America. Both of my parents are Nigerian, and I have had the opportunity to be raised in countries such a Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana. As grateful as I am to have lived in these countries, I’ve spent the majority of my years in the United States. I have always had a conflicted view of what my identity was in a cultural context. It often feels like I am a watered-down version of all of the locations I’ve lived in which puts me under a sort of pressure where I feel that I can’t wholeheartedly say I belong to any one place. I plan on creating a documentary that focuses on four individuals who fall under the category of first, second, or third-generation immigrants to see if similarities arise across the board. Questions I will draft to ask during the interview would pertain to ideas about the loss of culture, conformity, and romanticizing a culture they may or may not know much about. Besides the documentary, some of my deliverables may include film posters that convey the idea of combined cultures through mixed media, and overall typographic and graphic elements within the documentary that would create its cohesive feeling. Topic: One direction: The merging and dilution of ancestral origins with American values from the perspective of first, second, and third-generation immigrants. Another direction: American romanticization of their ancestral origins. Keywords: Immigrants, Conforming, Identity, Cultural Dilution Word Map. Refrence Thumbnail Images.