Identity and Migration in Europe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

1. Front Matter

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2. Identity and Migration: An Introduction

   • MariaCaterina La Barbera

   Pages 1-13

3. Identity and Cultural Diversity: Conceptual Entanglements

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Toward a New Lexicon and a Conceptual Grammar to Understand the “Multicultural Issue”

      • Giovanni Bombelli

      Pages 17-28

   3. Negotiation of Identities and Negotiation of Values in Multicultural Societies

      • Francesco Viola

      Pages 29-36

4. Identity and Marginalization: Migrants as the Other

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Has Multiculturalism Failed in Europe? Migration Policies, State of Emergency, and Their Impact on Migrants’ Identities in Italy

      • Lorenzo Ferrante

      Pages 39-57

   3. Intersectional Constructions of (Non-)Belonging in a Transnational Context: Biographical Narratives of Muslim Migrant Women in Germany

      • Anil Al-Rebholz

      Pages 59-73

5. Identity and Rights: How Law Shapes Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. The Self and the Other in Post-modern European Societies

      • Daniele Ruggiu

      Pages 77-96

   3. Processes of Constructing and Deconstructing Gender Identities in Contemporary Migrations

      • Roberto Solone Boccardi

      Pages 97-119

6. Identity and Home: Subjectivities on the Move

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Origins, Journey, and Home: The Issue of Identity in the Work of Three Diasporic “African-Indian” Women Writers

      • Lisa Caputo

      Pages 123-147

   3. The Concept of Mobility in Migration Processes: The Subjectivity of Moving towards a Better Life

      • Inbal Ofer

      Pages 149-160

7. Identity and Membership: Where to Belong

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. An Artistic Journey Through the Experiences of Refugee and Migrant Women in London

      • Nela Milic

      Pages 163-173

   3. Between Territoriality, Identity, and Politics: The External Vote of Ecuadorians in Madrid

      • Gabriel Echeverría

      Pages 175-190

8. Identity and Differentiation: Strategies of (Dis)Identification

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. When Your CV is “To Be a Latina Woman”: Re-articulation of Stereotypes and Re-construction of Identity of Ecuadorian Women Working in the Care Sector

      • Paloma Moré

      Pages 193-208

   3. Negotiating Identity: How Religion Matters After All for Migrants and Refugees in Luxemburg

      • Lucie Waltzer

      Pages 209-225

This book addresses the impact of migration on the formation and transformation of identity and its continuous negotiations. Its ground is the understanding of identity as a complex social phenomenon resulting from constant negotiations between personal conditions, social relationships, and institutional frameworks. Migrations, understood as dynamic processes that do not end when landing in the host country, offer the best conditions to analyze the construction and transformation of social identities in the postcolonial and globalized societies. Searching for novel epistemologies and methodologies, the research questions here addressed are how identity is negotiated in migration processes, and how these negotiations work in contemporary multiethnic Europe. This edited volume brings to the field a novel convergence of theoretical and empirical approaches by gathering together scholars from different countries of Europe and the Mediterranean area, from different disciplines and backgrounds, challenging the traditional discipline division.

• Complex social phenomenon
• Formation and transformation of identity
• Impact of migration
• Instutional frameworks
• Personal conditions
• Social relationships

• Ctr for Political & Constitutional Studi, Madrid, Spain

  MariaCaterina La Barbera

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