Learning as a precondition of migrants’ interest and engagement

• Authors: Sara Morasso
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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

Keywords

EN

international migration; learning; transition; identity

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 313-324

Dates

published

2012-07-01

online

2012-06-25

Contributors

author

Sara Morasso

• University of Surrey

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-012-0026-z