Abstract
In a now famous 1937 talk at Augustana College, “The Problem of the Third Generation,” pioneering immigration historian Marcus Lee Hansen described the perspective of different generations both on the experience of migrating to the United States and on each other. He observed, “What the son wishes to forget, the grandson wishes to remember.” This oft-quoted line refers to the very different feelings that members of the same family may have about immigration because of the distance each generation has from the wrenching experience of leaving a homeland, traveling to the United States, and adjusting to a new place and new neighbors.
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Gerber, D.A., Kraut, A.M. (2005). Generations. In: American Immigration and Ethnicity. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08615-0_6
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