The In-Between Generation: Identity, Systems, and the Children of Migration (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798249278120)

Growing Up Between Cultures in a Changing World

What does it mean to grow up between cultures?

For millions of young people in migrant families, identity is not inherited in a single direction. It is shaped by two cultural systems, two sets of expectations, and often two emotional languages.

In this thoughtful sequel to Disconnected, A. M. Hartley explores the psychological and cultural realities of second-generation immigrants and children of migration. From code-switching and cultural identity development to intergenerational conflict, discipline differences, belonging, and institutional misunderstanding, The In-Between Generation examines the lived complexity of growing up between worlds.

This book considers:

• Cultural identity and hybrid identity formation

• Assimilation vs integration

• Intergenerational tension in migrant families

• Parenting across cultures

• Belonging, anger, and misinterpretation

• Mental health and emotional expression across cultures

• System literacy in schools, healthcare, and institutions

• Bicultural competence as strength

Rather than framing the migrant experience as dysfunction or crisis, Hartley offers a steady, balanced exploration of cultural negotiation - how it shapes behaviour, perception, and identity over time.

For parents, educators, social workers, policymakers, and anyone seeking to better understand the second-generation experience, The In-Between Generation provides language for what is often felt but rarely articulated.

Growing between cultures is not fragmentation.

It is formation.

And in a world increasingly shaped by migration, that formation is not peripheral - it is central.