Identity and Migration in Europe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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.

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Foreword: Lasse Thomassen.- Chapter 1: Introduction: MariaCaterina La Barbera.- Section I Identity and Cultural Diversity: Conceptual Entanglements : Chapter 2: Toward a New Lexicon and a Conceptual Grammar to Understand the "Multicultural Issue": Giovanni Bombelli.- Chapter 3: Negotiation of Identities and Negotiation of Values in Multicultural Societies: Francesco Viola.- Section II Identity and Marginalization: Migrants as the Other: Chapter 4: Has Multiculturalism Failed in Europe? Migration Policies, State of Emergency, and Their Impact on Migrants' Identities in Italy: Lorenzo Ferrante.- Chapter 5: Intersectional Constructions of (Non-)Belonging in Transnational Context: Biographical Narratives of Muslim Migrant Women in Germany: Anil Al-Rebohlz.- Section III Identity and Rights: How Law Shapes Identity.: Chapter 6: The Self and the Other in Post-Modern European Societies: Daniele Ruggiu.- Chapter 7: Processes of Constructing and Deconstructing Gender Identities in Contemporary Migrations: Roberto Solone Boccardi.- Section IV Identity and Home: Subjectivities on the Move : Chapter 8: Origins, Journey, and Home: the Issue of Identity in Three Diasporic "African-Indian" Women Writers: Lisa Caputo.- Chapter 9: The Concept of Mobility in Migration Processes: The Subjectivity of Moving towards a "Better Life": Inbal Ofer.- Section V Identity andMembership: Where to Belong : Chapter 10: An Artistic Journey Through the Experiences of Refugee and Migrant Women in London: Nela Milic.- Chapter 11: Between Territoriality, Identity, and Politics: The External Vote of Ecuadorians in Madrid: Gabriel Echeverría.- Section VI Identity and Differentiation: Strategies of (Dis)Identification: Chapter 12: 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 Corral.- Chapter 13: Negotiating Identity: How Religion Matters After All for Immigrants and Refugees in Luxemburg: Lucie Waltzer: Section VII Identity and Symbols: Oppositional Self-Representations: Chapter 14: Veiling and Revealing Identity: The Linguistic Representation of the Hijab in the British Press: Ghufran Khir Allah.- Chapter 15: Narratives of Spanish Muslim Women on the Hijab as a Tool to Assert Identity: Salam Adlbi Sibai.