Paper Pilots: Immigration and Generation 1.5 | Ji Su Kang

Paper Pilots: Immigration and Generation 1.5 | Ji Su Kang | TEDxUChicago

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Ji Su Kang describes herself as a 1.5 -- an immigrant who moves to a new country as a child. Immigration is not as binary as being legal or illegal, and Ji Su talks of her experiences conversing with lawyers and filling out work permits for her family at a very young age and addresses the need to include 1.5s in the dialogue of improving the immigration process in America.
Ji Su Kang is a fourth-year in the college at the University of Chicago majoring in the interdisciplinary program History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine (HIPS), and minoring in both Human Rights and Music.
Ji Su is a member of the Rockefeller Chapel Choir and the Vocal Studies program, as well as President of Motet Choir. She also volunteers at the non-profit organization ENoK (Emancipate North Koreans), teaching English to North Korean refugees preparing for post-secondary education. In her free time, Ji Su works as a translator and interpreter for Korean immigrants and various non-profit organizations.
Ji Su’s life as a 1.5 generation immigrant has made her passionate about empowering young, lower-class immigrants. She wishes to become a spokesperson for their great strength and limitless potential.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

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@reecealcowitz1961 8 жыл бұрын

When you spoke about the USCIS misplacing applications and having to wait a long time due to traffic tickets from "Way back when" that hit me so hard. That's what my mom is dealing with right now, only in her case, it's not traffic tickets, it's jail. She was sent to jail ONE day and she's still waiting for her interview date for the United Citizenship. I'm 16 years old and for as long as I can remember, I was always the one to translate things for my mom. Instead of getting a real translator to help with her US Citizenship application, I translated everything for my mom, told her what to mail to the USCIS and etc. Instead of getting a letter back saying we did something wrong, we got one that told my mom to wait for her Interview date (I'm proud of myself for that feat). I've been learning English since I was 5 (when I came to the US).

@karolinaska6836 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for speaking to the 1.5 experience! Are you aware of additional resources for us to delve deeper into making sense of our identity? Thanks again!

@mooyoolee Жыл бұрын

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@jmacalangi 3 жыл бұрын

She claimed to have "made up" the term 1.5. I doubt it. The term “1.5 Generation” was coined in the 1960’s by Ruben Rumbaut, a sociology professor at the UC Irvine and a Cuban American who immigrated to the United States as a child.

@ElenaKomleva 3 жыл бұрын

I saw the term 1.5 generation in a scientific study a few days ago. So unless the authors of the study first watched her video and then used the term she invented she is lying

@ElenaKomleva 3 жыл бұрын

Her talk makes it seem like being an illegal immigrant is a point of honour these days, not a point of being a law-breaker. She talks about her and her parents schemes to screw the system as if these were some kind of heroic labours. And yes, I am an immigrant myself so you can't tell me "You just don't understand!!". Her "immigration is not easy" isn't exactly a satisfactory answer. I mean, good to know that it is at least not EASY to illegally do stuff, and that's a good thing, actually. And the fact that she did it anyway doesn't make her a hero. It's like robbing a store and when you're asked "Why did you do that?" saying "Robbing is not easy!! You don't get it!! You have to feel sorry for me! It was so hard! All the security systems! The cashiers! But I overcame that and did it anyway! And that makes me a better person!" And as ppl pointed out before me, she didn't make up the term "generation 1.5" either.