Cultural Identity Of Transnational Immigrants

This article surveyed the overseas Chinese students who went to Taiwan to study in the late 1980s and returned to Myanmar in the late 1990s and the early 21st century for development.Through historical literature,in-depth interviews,participatory observation and comparative research methods,this paper explores the educational background and social education background of Myitkyina overseas Chinese students,and understands the motivations,ways and processes of their study in Taiwan and returning to Myanmar.Present their current situation after returning to Myanmar,analyze the motives and context behind their transnational mobile behavior,and finally return to the discussion and summary of the diversity and scene cultural identity formed by the Myitkyina overseas Chinese students based on their socialized experience.Through investigation and research,the author found that under the influence of historical factors,ethnic factors,blood factors,policy factors and business factors,they formed a complex and diverse relationship with Yunnan,where their blood came form,Taiwan,where they studied in,and Myanmar,where they live now.The fomation and development of the overseas Chinese students of Myitkyina is a product of the combined effect of the Myanmar society,the overseas Chinese society of Myitkyina and the Taiwan society.The transnational movement of Myitkyina overseas Chinese students who returned to Myanmar after studying in Taiwan,from a cultural perspective,is a process of "from familiarity to strangeness,from strangeness to familiarity then from familiarity to strangeness".In this process,their cultural identity is constantly shaped based on their socialized experience,and finally presents a diversity and sceneual cultural identity——recognition of Myanmar in national identity,while acknowledging its own identity of the overseas Chinese of Myitkyina and overseas Chinese students of Myitkyina;acceptance of Burmese culture in cultural identity,and recognition of the social culture of Myitkyina and the social culture of Taiwan.Because of their diversity and sceneual cultural identity,they are more actively adapting and integrating into the Myanmar society by training their own Burmese abilities,promoting their children's acceptance of multicultural education,and expanding their social circle in other ethnic groups.They not only retain the small circle of the Chinese society and culture of Myitkyina overseas Chinese,but also can go out and integrate into the big circle of Myanmar's social culture.They have a better and broader prospect of survival and development than their parents and their peers who have not studied in Taiwan.