Different But Not Stranger

Everyday Collective Identifications among Adolescent Children of Immigrants in Italy

Bibliographic Data

ID3607025
AuthorsEnzo Colombo (0000-0001-7231-5819, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author), Luisa Leonini (0000-0002-1313-6965, Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy, corresponding author), Paola Rebughini (0000-0001-5563-8202, Universidad Iberoamericana, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume35
Issue1
Pages37-59
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691830802489101
OpenAlexW2001446595
LanguageEN
Citations received42
References cited28

This article deals with the problem of the future of the second generation in Italy. After a brief overview of the main perspectives currently adopted to theorise the future of the second and subsequent generations, the Italian situation is introduced. Our objective is to see whether and how the observations made especially in contexts with a long tradition of immigration, where migration processes are now culturally and institutionally embedded, can be useful to understand the Italian situation, characterised by recent immigration flows. The empirical basis to the paper is a set of interviews and focus groups with 105 young people of migrant origin in Milan. Analysis of their narratives reveals six self-identifications which we describe as ethnic enclave, mimicry, crisis, transnational, hyphenated and cosmopolitan

Ethnic group · Immigration · Linguistics · Mimicry · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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