How Second-Generation Immigrant Adventists Navigate Dual Cultural Identity and Faith

Executive summary

As immigrant communities have transformed Adventism in North America, Europe, and Australia, a critical cohort has emerged: second-generation immigrant Adventists — born in the host country to parents who migrated as believers. These individuals navigate a triple identity tension: their parents' ethnic culture, the dominant host culture, and the Adventist subculture. Research from sociologist Ronald Lawson and Andrews University studies documents that second-generation immigrants are significant...