Children of Immigrants in a Globalized World [electronic resource] : A Generational Experience /
Colombo, E.author.
Rebughini, P.author.
This book explores the generational experience of children of immigrants growing up in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, comparing the lives of Mediterranean youths with those from America and Northern Europe.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Outline of chapters; 1 The Future of Immigrants' Children in a Globalized World; On inclusion; The predicament of assimilation; The segmented assimilation theory; The transnational turn; Looking beyond assimilation and transnationalism; Social policies and integration paths: Britain and France; Changing contexts and personal capacities; A generational experience; Generational marks; A generational avant-garde; A potential active minority; Ambivalences of inclusion; 2 Framing Contexts and Actors; Introduction; Panel and methodology
A generational perspectiveA potential avant-garde and the self-selection of the panel; The focus on a multicultural urban context; The Italian context; An overview of the 'First' generation; Being children of immigrants in contemporary Italy; The Mediterranean perspective: children of immigrants in Southern Europe; 3 A Specific Generational Location; Finding new global locations; Complex connectivity and persistence of family ties; Facing exclusion; Beyond family ties; Fluctuating between culture and way of life; Dual competence; 4 Multiple Belonging; The complexity of belonging
Documents that matterBeing accepted as people; Belonging as allegiance; Being recognized as people deserving a hearing; Fluid and differentiated belonging; 5 Complex Identifications; Hyphenated identification; Different ways of interpreting hyphenated identification; Symbolic and instrumental; Transnational and reactive responses; A different point of view; Resisting categorization; Difference as a resource; When skin colour and gender matter; Tactical ethnicity; 6 Children of Immigrants in Search of Justness; Living on the move; From coherence to justness; What is justness?
Difference, merit, autonomyAmbivalences of justness; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores the generational experience of children of immigrants growing up in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, comparing the lives of Mediterranean youths with those from America and Northern Europe.
Sociology.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Political sociology.
Emigration and immigration.
Social policy.
Ethnicity.
Sociology, general.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Political Sociology.
Migration.
Social Policy.
Ethnicity Studies.