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Acts of Belonging: Second Generation Youth in South Tyrol, Italy
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Abstract This article studies citizenship beyond its manifestation as a formal legal status, by exploring citizenship as a process shaped by people’s everyday practices and experiences of belonging. Through investigating the daily struggles over belonging and membership of young people with migrant backgroun... view more
This article studies citizenship beyond its manifestation as a formal legal status, by exploring citizenship as a process shaped by people’s everyday practices and experiences of belonging. Through investigating the daily struggles over belonging and membership of young people with migrant background in the autonomous province of South Tyrol in Northern Italy, this study pays particular attention to the ways in which belonging on the macro scale (the nation, the state) and the micro scale (the village, the city, the region) clash, intersect and interact with each other. By highlighting practices of belonging at the margins of a state by actors considered to be at the margins of the state, this article contributes to scholarly debates that “decentre” citizenship by studying it at, from and for the margins.... view less
Keywords
South Tyrol; Italy; migration background; second generation; adolescent; young adult; group membership; national identity; citizenship; minority; regional identity
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
belonging
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Journal
Migration Letters, 20 (2023)
Issue topic
Everyday practices of citizenship and identity among young adults with migrant parentage in Italy
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed