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Unpacking Young Migrants’ Collective Identities: The Case of Ethnonational Identifications and Belonging
- Source :
- Children & Society. 31:452-462
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2017.
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Abstract
- Based on a qualitative study of youth identities in Greece, the paper unpacks the dynamic processes of ethnonational (dis)identification and belonging that Albanian young migrants are implicated in. Analysis of in-depth interviews illustrates how racism, coupled with their lack of citizenship, affects their (dis)identifications. Additionally, categorisation is reported to crucially mediate their belonging, giving rise to a double-edged sense of otherness and alienation. The paper concludes by putting forward a conceptualisation of young migrants’ collective identities as involving the emotive dialectic of (dis)identification, categorisation and belonging, along with negotiation of boundaries and acceptance by ‘others’ in both home and settlement societies.
- Subjects :
- Dialectic
Health (social science)
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05 social sciences
0507 social and economic geography
Alienation
Gender studies
HM
Racism
0506 political science
Education
HT
Negotiation
Emotive
Collective identity
H1
050602 political science & public administration
Sociology
Identification (psychology)
Life-span and Life-course Studies
050703 geography
Citizenship
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09510605
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Children & Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ed4c9f17819e54b8c6136da7a0071307