Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Συγκρούσεις και ΕπικοινωνίαLibrary of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology
Supervisors info:
Νικόλας Χρηστάκης, Καθηγητής. Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και Μέσων Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης. ΕΚΠΑ
Νίκος Μποζατζής, Επίκουρος καθηγητής. Φιλοσοφία, Παιδαγωγική και Ψυχολογία. Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων.
Original Title:
Εθνική Υπαγωγή/Ταυτοτικές Εκδοχές: Ο Λόγος των Μεταναστών Δεύτερης Γενιάς.
Translated title:
Nationhood/National Identities: The Discourse of Second Generation Immigrants.
Summary:
In public discourses, migration is often treated as a ‘problem’ that ‘threatens’ national homogeneity and the national order of things. In such accounts, immigrants are not treated as individuals that have faced tremendous difficulties in pursuing a better life but, instead, they are often singled-out and targeted on the basis of their ethnic origin. One of the emerging social theoretical issues relates to the fact that this targeting, more often than not, concerns individuals that do not originate from ‘developed’ nation-States of the West and, thus, it may be seen as contributing to the maintenance and reproduction of symbolic hierarchies running through the world of nations. In this research, the participants, second generation Albanian immigrants, describe their experiences, their everyday lives constructing occasioned versions of social world. Within these constructions, identities are being mobilized as well as individual placements within an ideological, hierarchical imagery of the world of nations. Drawing upon the discursive turn n social psychology, we shall shed light to the participants’ discursive constructions of Albania and Greece, exemplifying ways in which their discourse constructs social reality. Such constructions are essential for the individuals in order to manage accountability issues and representations of everyday life in “here” and “there”.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Keywords:
Discursive Psychology, Social Psychology, Migration, National identity, Nationhood, Second generation Albanian immigrants.
Number of references:
128
