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Children of immigrants in a globalized world : a generational experience / Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Colombo, Enzo, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Italy.
- Immigrants.
- Children of immigrants--Italy--Social conditions.
- Children of immigrants.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.
- Italy--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 200 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Summary:
- Drawing on in-depth empirical case studies, this book explores the lives of adolescent children of immigrants; those who, endowed with high cultural capital, are living the generational experience of growing up in a post-industrial, globalized and interconnected world. Although they face specific social constraints, this generation is also developing new skills such as managing ambivalence and multiple belongings, shifting codes and languages and claiming new forms of participation in social life. Accustomed to moving from one context to another, these children learn to use difference, equality, belonging, loyalty and identification in complex ways to help further their own personal opportunities. This book argues that one can view the diverse experiences of these young people more broadly to help shed light on the everyday social processes that are affecting contemporary youth as a whole. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Future of Immigrants' Children in a Globalized World 8
- On inclusion 9
- The predicament of assimilation 10
- The segmented assimilation theory 13
- The transnational turn 15
- Looking beyond assimilation and transnationalism 19
- Social policies and integration paths: Britain and France 21
- Changing contexts and personal capacities 25
- A generational experience 28
- Generational marks 30
- A generational avant-garde 35
- A potential active minority 36
- Ambivalences of inclusion 39
- 2 Framing Contexts and Actors 42
- Introduction 42
- Panel and methodology 44
- A generational perspective 47
- A potential avant-garde and the self-selection of the panel 48
- The focus on a multicultural urban context 50
- The Italian context 52
- An overview of the 'First' generation 53
- Being children of immigrants in contemporary Italy 55
- The Mediterranean perspective: children of immigrants in Southern Europe 59
- 3 A Specific Generational Location 62
- Finding new global locations 62
- Complex connectivity and persistence of family ties 67
- Facing exclusion 73
- Beyond family ties 79
- Fluctuating between culture and way of life 84
- Dual competence 90
- 4 Multiple Belonging 94
- The complexity of belonging 94
- Documents that matter 99
- Being accepted as people 101
- Belonging as allegiance 109
- Being recognized as people deserving a hearing 115
- Fluid and differentiated belonging 120
- 5 Complex Identifications 126
- Hyphenated identification 126
- Different ways of interpreting hyphenated identification 128
- Symbolic and instrumental 128
- Transnational and reactive responses 131
- A different point of view 133
- Resisting categorization 135
- Difference as a resource 141
- When skin colour and gender matter 145
- Tactical ethnicity 153
- 6 Children of Immigrants in Search of Justness 159
- Living on the move 159
- From coherence to justness 162
- What is justness? 163
- Difference, merit, autonomy 169
- Ambivalences of justness 171
- Conclusions 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781137005281
- 1137005289
- OCLC:
- 798615429
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