Learning as a precondition of migrants’ interest and engagement
- Greco Morasso, Sara Istituto di argomentazione, linguistica e semiotica (IALS), Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
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2012
Published in:
- Human Affairs. - 2012, vol. 22, no. 3, p. 313-324
English
This paper considers the complex relation between migrants’ interest in their host country and their consequent civic or social engagement in the framework of processes of transition following the rupture of international migration (cf. Zittoun 2006). In phases of transition, migrants live processes of identity definition, sense-making of the situation and learning new knowledge and social, cognitive and practical skills. I argue that learning may be considered a precondition for a migrant’s interest and engagement with the host country culture and institutions. In this connection, I use Eade’s (2007) notion of migration strategy to describe migrant profiles based on learning. My case is supported by a qualitative analysis of two paradigmatic case studies.
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- English
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- Information, communication and media sciences
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- RERO DOC 200237
- DOI 10.2478/s13374-012-0026-z
- ARK ark:/12658/srd1318567
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