migrant identities Flashcards
(10 cards)
our identities
our identity is made up of multiple sourced from our family, neighbourhood age ethnicity gender religion and nationality.
for migrants and their descendants their country of origin may provide an additional source of identity
eade 1994
migrants can develop hybrid identities made up of two or more different sources
second generation Bangladeshi Muslims in Britain creates hierarchal identities they saw themselves first as muslims, then Bengali and then British
transnational identities
according to Eriksen 2007 - globalisation has created more diverse migration patterns with back and forth movements of people through networks rather than permanent settlement in another country . which results in such migrants being less likely to see themselves as belonging to one culture or another and instead hey may develop transnational (neither/nor) identities and loyalties.
modern technology
this has made it possible to maintain global relationships without having to travel
the globalised economy means that economic migrants may have more links to other migrants than to tehir country of origin or the country they rae currently settled in - eg ERIKSEN - found that chineese in itay preferred to speak manddrain and nthey fount it mor euseful then italian
politicisation of migration
with the increased global flow of migrants, migration has become a political issue
states now have policies that seek to control immigration, absorb migrants into society and deal with increased ethnic nad cultural diversity
more recently policies have also become linked to national security and nati-terrorism policies
assimilationism
was teh first state policy aproach to immigration
it aimed to encourage immigrants to adopt the language val;ues an customs of the host culture to becom elike us
however assimilation policies have mainly failed because of teh desire of many migrants to retain aspects of their culture of origin and do not see tehmselves as belonging to just on nation state.
