Migration and the Creation of Hybrid Identity: Chances and Challenges

Consuela Wagner ()
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No 16, Proceedings of Harvard Square Symposium, The Phenomenon of Migration, August 22-23, 2016 from Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies

Abstract: The “migration†process brings along the issue of confronting with the self identity. The contact with, and life within a new culture involves a change for the individual, and it automatically leads—consciously or unconsciously—to the need of reconstructing his own identity. There are different factors which influence this process, like: personal competences, the purpose and the aim of migration, the cultural differences between the origin environment and the migration one, the material, social and time resources, the personality traits, etc. Depending on these factors, the work of reconstruction the identity can develop benefic strategies and some with a devastating effect. So, it is important to know to which extent a “hybrid†identity or even a “worldwide†one, can be desirable or even favorable on the one hand, and on the other hand which are the challenges brought along with it.

Keywords: identity; hybrid; cosmopolitan; reconstruction; migration. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2016-08
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Published in Conference proceedings The Phenomenon of Migration, 22-23 August 2016, pages 237-255

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.999620

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