uprootedness (Handlin), transplantation (Bodnar), and dual construction of ethnicity (Conzen).

Define what is meant by uprootedness (Handlin), transplantation (Bodnar), and dual construction of ethnicity

Define what is meant by uprootedness (Handlin), transplantation (Bodnar), and dual construction of ethnicity (Conzen).  (Your definitions of these terms must be more than a single sentence each.)

Given these various interpretations regarding the immigration experience — transplantation, uprootedness, dual construction of ethnicity — which do you think was most applicable to the experiences of the Irish or the Germans, and why?  What do you see as the limitations of the ones you did not choose? Is it possible that these interpretations can be applied at different points in the group’s experiences?

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Uprootedness means the process of displacing an individual from their native surrounding. According to Oscar Handlin he described immigration as the experience of uprootedness.  This during migration individuals leave their beliefs and practices which they enjoyed doing and migrate to another land with different beliefs and practices. Bodner on the other hand viewed immigration as transplantation experience. He said that immigrants did not carry with them their old life instead what they did was to adapt to the new environment and learn the new culture and practices (Glenn, 2002…..

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