This paper 1 looks at migrants’ negotiation of identity in transnational contexts. Intra-EU migration has brought about changes in the nature and significance of citizenship, social relations and symbolic ties in communities. The transnational interconnectivity between homeland communities and the diaspora poses a challenge to discourses of national belonging. Under current deterritorialized experiences and technological advances, the simultaneous incorporation of migrants within and across national entities sees the advent of plural representations of identity and national societies. In our analysis of interviews carried with Romanians working in Italy we started from the assumption that temporary workforce migration is a specific type of transnational context, which generates new cultural practices and requires migrants to define ways of belonging towards the host and home countries and to negotiate identitarian attributes. Our hypothesis is that in this transnational context the migrants do not employ attributes of essentialist identity in routine discourses about themselves, but rather strategically mobilize these attributes in order to justify the dynamics of belonging to home or host countries.

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跨国背景下的身份协商。罗马尼亚临时工在意大利的案例

本文1着眼于跨国背景下的移民身份协商。欧盟内部移徙带来了公民身份，社会关系和社区象征关系的性质和意义的变化。国土社区与侨民之间的跨国联系对民族归属的话语构成了挑战。在当前的地区化经验和技术进步的推动下，移民在国家实体内部和跨国家实体的同时纳入，使身份和国家社会以复数形式出现。在分析对在意大利工作的罗马尼亚人进行的采访时，我们从以下假设开始：临时工移民是特定类型的跨国环境，这产生了新的文化习俗，并要求移民确定对东道国和母国的归属方式，并商定认同性。我们的假设是，在这种跨国背景下，移民在自己的日常论述中没有采用本质主义身份的属性，而是在战略上动员了这些属性，以证明归属于本国或所在国的动力。