How Young Italians Negotiate and Redefine Their Identity in the Mobility Experience
In this article we analyze the formation of different identity models of Italian young people experiencing mobility. The article contributes to study the link between youth mobility and identity. It does so through the development of a theoretical perspective that combines Butler’s post-structuralis...
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| description | In this article we analyze the formation of different identity models of Italian young people experiencing mobility. The article contributes to study the link between youth mobility and identity. It does so through the development of a theoretical perspective that combines Butler’s post-structuralism with Bourdieu’s category of embodied cultural capital. Drawing on this theoretical framework, we analyze the identity formation of young Italians who emigrated to Australia in the last 10 years. The data show the emergence of an identity made up of a complex set of interconnected levels, composed of an incorporated dimension that constitutes the basis of their roots and the performative part that represents the mobile dimension subject to transformation in the course of life evolution. This interpretative lens enables the understanding of how the process of incorporation is connected to the performative and self-transformative one of identity, but also how the different combination of fixed and mobile aspects defines different profiles of identity and a different way of perceiving being Italians. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fd13a3dbaff84dd29d8b22c45c455dfb2024-02-23T15:34:29ZengMDPI AGSocieties2075-46982024-02-011422010.3390/soc14020020How Young Italians Negotiate and Redefine Their Identity in the Mobility ExperienceMauro Giardiello0Hernan I. Cuervo1Rosa Capobianco2Department of Education, University of Roma Tre, 00185 Rome, ItalyYouth Research Center, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, 3010 Melbourne, AustraliaDepartment of Education, University of Roma Tre, 00185 Rome, ItalyIn this article we analyze the formation of different identity models of Italian young people experiencing mobility. The article contributes to study the link between youth mobility and identity. It does so through the development of a theoretical perspective that combines Butler’s post-structuralism with Bourdieu’s category of embodied cultural capital. Drawing on this theoretical framework, we analyze the identity formation of young Italians who emigrated to Australia in the last 10 years. The data show the emergence of an identity made up of a complex set of interconnected levels, composed of an incorporated dimension that constitutes the basis of their roots and the performative part that represents the mobile dimension subject to transformation in the course of life evolution. This interpretative lens enables the understanding of how the process of incorporation is connected to the performative and self-transformative one of identity, but also how the different combination of fixed and mobile aspects defines different profiles of identity and a different way of perceiving being Italians.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/14/2/20mobilityidentityyoung peopleperformativitycultural capital |
| spellingShingle | Mauro Giardiello Hernan I. Cuervo Rosa Capobianco How Young Italians Negotiate and Redefine Their Identity in the Mobility Experience Societies mobility identity young people performativity cultural capital |
| title | How Young Italians Negotiate and Redefine Their Identity in the Mobility Experience |
| title_full | How Young Italians Negotiate and Redefine Their Identity in the Mobility Experience |
| title_fullStr | How Young Italians Negotiate and Redefine Their Identity in the Mobility Experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Young Italians Negotiate and Redefine Their Identity in the Mobility Experience |
| title_short | How Young Italians Negotiate and Redefine Their Identity in the Mobility Experience |
| title_sort | how young italians negotiate and redefine their identity in the mobility experience |
| topic | mobility identity young people performativity cultural capital |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/14/2/20 |
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