ABSTRACT

Young people with immigrant backgrounds are especially exposed in their identity formation. They may face particular difficulties if they also identify themselves as religious, such as being positioned as odd and different in negative ways by their peers. Focusing on the social conditions for developing an integrated identity, and through the theoretic lens of dialogical self-theory, this article asks how young religious immigrants are positioned by the expectations of their social environments. The article is based on qualitative interviews with 22 religious youths with immigrant backgrounds living south of Stockholm. The result highlights three discernible conflicts in the youths’ identity formation: being religious and Swedish, being religious and young and being religious and a feminist. Despite these conflicts, they all want to stay religious as adults, even though their stories reveal hesitation and insecurity about the future.

摘要

具有移民背景的年轻人在身份形成方面尤其暴露。如果他们也认同自己是宗教人士，他们可能会面临特别的困难，例如被同龄人以消极的方式定位为奇怪和不同的人。本文着眼于发展综合身份的社会条件，并通过对话自我理论的理论视角，询问年轻的宗教移民如何被其社会环境的期望定位。这篇文章基于对 22 名居住在斯德哥尔摩南部、具有移民背景的宗教青年的定性采访。结果突出了青年身份形成中的三个明显冲突：宗教和瑞典，宗教和年轻，宗教和女权主义者。尽管有这些冲突，