FROM TATTOOS, VEILS AND NOTEBOOKS: REPRESENTATIONS OF OTHERNESS AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES IN YOUNG STUDENTS WITH MIGRANT BACKGROUNDS IN SPAIN

Antonia Olmos Alcaraz; María Rubio Gómez; Ouafaa Bouachra Outmani

doi:10.21665/2318-3888.v5n9p61-86

Authors

Antonia Olmos Alcaraz Social Anthropology Department Instituto de Migraciones Granada University (Spain)
María Rubio Gómez Instituto de Migraciones Granada University (Spain)
Ouafaa Bouachra Outmani Instituto de Migraciones Granada University (Spain)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21665/2318-3888.v5n9p61-86

Abstract

This study relationally analyses the processes of the construction of difference and the processes of identity construction in which young adolescents and pre-adolescents with migrant backgrounds within formal educational contexts are involved. The text aims to show and describe how otherness and identity work in an intersectional way. Our analysis considers intersectionality as the most appropriate way of approximation to the reality observed. To do so, we work from biographical interviews and life stories of young people produced through our own respective fieldwork. This material had been analyzed looking for the relations between identity categories (gender, religion, nationality...) and how these categories are interpreted for the young adolescents involved in the research. We research in twelve andalusian high schools with students, teachers and families. Along three scholar years, we made 132 interviews and 13 discussion groups. This allows us to address the theoretical objects of the study (otherness/identity) in a contextual and process-based way.

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Author Biographies

Antonia Olmos Alcaraz, Social Anthropology Department Instituto de Migraciones Granada University (Spain)

Associate professor, Social Anthropology Department at Granada University (Spain), and member of Institute of Migrations at the Granada University and the “Laboratorio de Estudios Interculturales”. Her research interests are identity/otherness, interculturality and racism.

María Rubio Gómez, Instituto de Migraciones Granada University (Spain)

PhD in Social Sciences (2013), and Masters in Migration Studies, Development and Social Intervention. Researcher from the Institute of Migrations and the “Laboratorio de Estudios Interculturales” in the University of Granada. She currently works as Co-ordinator for the Education for Sustainable Development Programme for the NGO Prodiversa-Progreso y Diversidad (Malaga, Spain) and as professor in UMA.

Ouafaa Bouachra Outmani, Instituto de Migraciones Granada University (Spain)

PHD candidate at the Migration Institute, University of Granada (Spain), and Masters in Migration Studies, Development and Social Intervention. Her research interests are migrations and education in Spain, cultural diversity and identity/otherness.