The current international terrorist situation is slowly but surely infiltrating and shaping inter-community relations in multi-ethnic societies. There are multiple consequences for people belonging to Arab and Muslim minority communities in North America and Europe. This article documents, in the light of the transcultural perspective and of the Social Identity Theory, how the terrorist situation is changing the space of social confrontation in Italy, forcing immigrant Arab Muslim families to re-define their identity representations in the contexts of daily life. For this qualitative study, the researchers interviewed ten immigrant families, using the theoretical and methodological approach of IPA. Results indicate that the construction in public discourse of the overlap between ISIS and Islam, determines the attribution of a threatening social category to the Arab Muslim community and the lack of recognition of the polyvalence through which these families represent themselves. The areas of vulnerability, produced by this situation, give rise to the possible risk of radicalisation in the attempt, for both first and second generations, to re-construct a positive self-image. Findings suggest using the school as a primary context of complex social interventions, able to involve the whole community.

I, We, They at the Time of International Terrorism: Identity and Métissage in Immigrant Families / D'Antonio, Giancarlo; Monacelli, Nadia. - ELETTRONICO. - (2018), pp. 228-234. (Intervento presentato al convegno 16th International Conference on Social Sciences tenutosi a Parigi nel 23-24 November 2018).

I, We, They at the Time of International Terrorism: Identity and Métissage in Immigrant Families

Giancarlo D'Antonio
;
Nadia Monacelli
2018-01-01

Abstract

The current international terrorist situation is slowly but surely infiltrating and shaping inter-community relations in multi-ethnic societies. There are multiple consequences for people belonging to Arab and Muslim minority communities in North America and Europe. This article documents, in the light of the transcultural perspective and of the Social Identity Theory, how the terrorist situation is changing the space of social confrontation in Italy, forcing immigrant Arab Muslim families to re-define their identity representations in the contexts of daily life. For this qualitative study, the researchers interviewed ten immigrant families, using the theoretical and methodological approach of IPA. Results indicate that the construction in public discourse of the overlap between ISIS and Islam, determines the attribution of a threatening social category to the Arab Muslim community and the lack of recognition of the polyvalence through which these families represent themselves. The areas of vulnerability, produced by this situation, give rise to the possible risk of radicalisation in the attempt, for both first and second generations, to re-construct a positive self-image. Findings suggest using the school as a primary context of complex social interventions, able to involve the whole community.
2018
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I, We, They at the Time of International Terrorism: Identity and Métissage in Immigrant Families / D'Antonio, Giancarlo; Monacelli, Nadia. - ELETTRONICO. - (2018), pp. 228-234. (Intervento presentato al convegno 16th International Conference on Social Sciences tenutosi a Parigi nel 23-24 November 2018).
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