Name: Victoria Tang
Description: This eportfolio consolidates my springboard research project on the French immigrant community living in NYC.
Building a New France in New York is a collection of personal narratives from French “immigrants” who have lived/currently live in New York City. The aim is to understand the meaning of French identity specifically in a Francophile city.
The research is in the form of accounts of personal experiences to grasp the meaning of identity on an intimate and individual level as opposed to generalizing through statistical data. The goal of this project is not to make a conclusion on the sociology of living abroad. Rather, it is to provide an archive of case studies that brings attention to how identity and place are connected. The main feature is a map on the homepage that shows important locations in the interviewees’ lives abroad.
Campus: Brooklyn
Is this a site for a student group or organization?: No
Name of group or organization:
Link: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/newfrancenewyork/
