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School, Family and Migrations: Toward an Understanding of Differential (de)Construction of Gender Identities

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Galician Migrations: A Case Study of Emerging Super-diversity

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This chapter aims to identify and compare processes involved in gender identity formation for new generations of migrant adolescents enrolled in Galician secondary schools, paying particular attention to the fundamental interactional contexts of family and school. We have explored students’, family members’, and teachers’ perceptions of the role these two key contexts play in the differential (de)construction of gender identities for both autochthonous and migrant students. In-depth interviews with these three groups of participants have revealed considerable tensions in the gender identity construction of students who respond to a double set of sociocultural referents: those of the country of residence and the country of origin. Furthermore, the school and family produce symbolic resources that allow for a fluid, constant, and multi-voiced renegotiation of identity.

Post-structuralist discourse entails a move from the self as a noun (and thus stable and relatively fixed) to the self as a verb, always in process, taking its shape in and through the discursive possibilities through which selves are made.

Davies (1997, p. 274).

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    Belén García-Cabeza & Jaime A. García-Serna

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    Renée DePalma

  2. Faculty of Sociology, ESOMI (Research Group on the Sociology of International Migrations) , University of A Coruna, A Coruna, (Galicia), La Coruña, Spain

    Antía Pérez-Caramés

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García-Cabeza, B., García-Serna, J.A. (2018). School, Family and Migrations: Toward an Understanding of Differential (de)Construction of Gender Identities. In: DePalma, R., Pérez-Caramés, A. (eds) Galician Migrations: A Case Study of Emerging Super-diversity. Migration, Minorities and Modernity, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66305-0_14

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