The Third Transitional Identity of Migrant Adolescents. The Case of Hotel House, an Italian Multi-Ethnic Skyscraper-Ghetto

Alessandra Fermani, Ilaria Riccioni, Laura Vincze, Giorgio Cingolani and Ramona Bongelli
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Alessandra Fermani: Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, University of Macerata, 62100 Macerata, Italy
Ilaria Riccioni: Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, University of Macerata, 62100 Macerata, Italy
Laura Vincze: Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, University of Roma Tre, 00154 Roma, Italy
Giorgio Cingolani: Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, University of Macerata, 62100 Macerata, Italy
Ramona Bongelli: Department of Political Science, Communication and International Relations, University of Macerata, 62100 Macerata, Italy

Societies, 2021, vol. 11, issue 2, 1-16

Abstract: The adolescent’s identity achievement is a complex task, even more so if they are migrants living in a particular context of ethnic ghettoization. Hotel House is an enormous, isolated condominium situated on the outskirts of Porto Recanati, a small Italian town. It is a unique reality poorly studied from a social psychological perspective. The present paper aims to measure the perceived levels of self-concept clarity, self-determination, ethnic group identification, relationship with parents, depression and life satisfaction in a group of 91 adolescents (11–19 years; 30% females; 1.5 immigrant’s generation) living in this context. The analysis shows low levels of self-concept clarity and self-determination, especially in female adolescents, quite satisfactory relationships with their parents and medium levels of group identification and life satisfaction. The identification with their ethnic subgroups seems to provide a third transitional identity which works as a temporary link between native country values and host country values. The regression analysis shows significant associations: self-determination is negatively associated with depression and positively associated with the perception of life satisfaction; the father’s closeness is a negative predictor for depression and a positive predictor for life satisfaction; mother’s closeness is negatively associated with depression.

Keywords: identity; migrants; adolescence; parent attachment; depression; life satisfaction; gender; self-esteem; person–context interaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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