Identity and Migration in Europe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (International Perspectives on Migration Book 13)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Identity and Migration: An Introduction....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Toward a New Lexicon and a Conceptual Grammar to Understand the “Multicultural Issue”....Pages 17-28 Negotiation of Identities and Negotiation of Values in Multicultural Societies....Pages 29-36 Front Matter....Pages 37-37 Has Multiculturalism Failed in Europe? Migration Policies, State of Emergency, and Their Impact on Migrants’ Identities in Italy....Pages 39-57 Intersectional Constructions of (Non-)Belonging in a Transnational Context: Biographical Narratives of Muslim Migrant Women in Germany....Pages 59-73 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 The Self and the Other in Post-modern European Societies....Pages 77-96 Processes of Constructing and Deconstructing Gender Identities in Contemporary Migrations....Pages 97-119 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Origins, Journey, and Home: The Issue of Identity in the Work of Three Diasporic “African-Indian” Women Writers....Pages 123-147 The Concept of Mobility in Migration Processes: The Subjectivity of Moving towards a Better Life....Pages 149-160 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 An Artistic Journey Through the Experiences of Refugee and Migrant Women in London....Pages 163-173 Between Territoriality, Identity, and Politics: The External Vote of Ecuadorians in Madrid....Pages 175-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 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....Pages 193-208 Negotiating Identity: How Religion Matters After All for Migrants and Refugees in Luxemburg....Pages 209-225 Front Matter....Pages 227-227 Veiling and Revealing Identity: The Linguistic Representation of the Hijab in the British Press....Pages 229-249 Narratives of Spanish Muslim Women on the Hijab as a Tool to Assert Identity....Pages 251-268 Back Matter....Pages 269-270 "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 transformatin of social identities in the postcolonial and globalized societies."-- Quatrième de couverture "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 transformatin of social identities in the postcolonial and globalized societies."--P. [4] de la couv