‘Keeping two cultures together’
The binary construction of belonging in narratives of professionals on children’s cultural identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18995188 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amadasi (0000-0003-3939-6199, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, corresponding author), Chiara Ballestri (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 273-292 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1070-289X • E-ISSN: 1547-3384 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1070289x.2024.2371719 |
| OpenAlex | W4400184137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 43 |
This paper analyses interviews with Italian education professionals collected in the context of a European research project on the participation of children with a migration background, aiming to understand how interviewees’ construct children’s belonging and cultural identity. We also investigated whether these constructions change because of the gender of children involved in the narratives. We found that a narrative of incompleteness underpinned the professionals’ views. They described children’s trajectories as incomplete both because of their status as children and because of their perceived division in binary terms. Furthermore, through these narratives, the interviewees work out their own professional role identities and reconfirm established institutional discourses
Aesthetics · Art · Cultural identity · Genealogy · Literature · Narrative · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · History
Marxism and literature
Translation and Conflict
Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition
Identity in Narrative
The Adaptation of Migrant Children
Belonging and Connection to School in Resettlement
Translanguaging in the classroom
Theorising Childhood
A story to tell
Hybrid identities
Chinese immigrant youth identities and belonging in Prato, Italy
Translanguaging in School Contexts
Translanguaging and semiotic assemblages
Why Children? Why Now
Childhood as a Symbolic Space
Multiple identities, multiple realities
Block and thread intercultural narratives and positioning
I already have a culture.’ Negotiating competing grand and personal narratives in interview conversations with new study abroad arrivals
Kindergarteners’ perceptions of belonging and inclusion in a two-way immersion classroom
Dancing towards belonging
Structural variations of classroom interaction
Shared communities and shared understandings
Beyond ‘between two cultures’
Becoming a problem
Changing the Subject
Narratives of vicarious experience in conversation
Researching the Intercultural
Searching for Belonging - An Analytical Framework
Cheap Calls
The child as a medium. Breakdown and possible resurgence of children's agency in the era of pandemic
His-stories of Belonging
Childhood memories of belonging among young Romanian migrants in Italy
Self, Belonging and Social Change
The politics of belonging
The time and space of everyday life
The narrative constitution of identity
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |