At The Hyphenation Project, we are studying the impact of migration on language habits and identity formation in generational migrants. When people migrate from one place to another, they suffer a culture shock due to the differences in their own culture and habits, and that of those around them in the new place. ​We intend to study whether this shock and other habits from their place of origin are passed on to the children of these migrants - their progenies who are either born in the new land, or were really young when they migrated. We hope to find out what impact it has on the lifestyle and identity formation in these second and 1.5 generation migrants.

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Our project aims to interview and archive the lived experiences and oral history of these hyphenated subjects. Our goals also include facilitating a series of research questions that would look at the phenomenon from various perspectives. As such, we plan on producing multiple publications and presentations on this topic.