Sfide quotidiane delle giovani musulmane italiane in qualità di “testimoni di una terra di confine”

The aim of the article is to propose a different perspective on the issue of Muslim women, focusing on the point of view of second generations, i.e. young people born and raised in a Western context. On the “boundary” between two socio-cultural worlds –the Muslim context known through the family and...

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Main Author: Ivana Acocella
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Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2023-08-01
Series:Storia delle Donne
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Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/sdd/article/view/15009
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description The aim of the article is to propose a different perspective on the issue of Muslim women, focusing on the point of view of second generations, i.e. young people born and raised in a Western context. On the “boundary” between two socio-cultural worlds –the Muslim context known through the family and the Western context in which they are growing up– young Muslim women experience hybrid forms of socialisation on a daily basis, developing “fluctuating identity markers” that are both contextual and transnational in an attempt to reconstruct a unity that does not inevitably have to be limited to a single reality. This article will therefore aim to explore the subjectivation strategies that may be produced as a result of the biographical challenges associated with the peculiar condition of “witnesses of a borderland” of young Muslim women. Such challenges and strategies of subjectification can bring out both the symbolic, structural and positioning boundaries of identity, and the spaces of dissolution of the same categories of belonging/reference, thus revealing their conventionality, contextuality and historicity.
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spelling doaj-art-8aec10b18f8547c799927a2eefc15c8c2025-08-20T02:34:28ZengFirenze University PressStoria delle Donne1826-75131826-75052023-08-0119Sfide quotidiane delle giovani musulmane italiane in qualità di “testimoni di una terra di confine”Ivana Acocella0Università degli Studi di Firenze The aim of the article is to propose a different perspective on the issue of Muslim women, focusing on the point of view of second generations, i.e. young people born and raised in a Western context. On the “boundary” between two socio-cultural worlds –the Muslim context known through the family and the Western context in which they are growing up– young Muslim women experience hybrid forms of socialisation on a daily basis, developing “fluctuating identity markers” that are both contextual and transnational in an attempt to reconstruct a unity that does not inevitably have to be limited to a single reality. This article will therefore aim to explore the subjectivation strategies that may be produced as a result of the biographical challenges associated with the peculiar condition of “witnesses of a borderland” of young Muslim women. Such challenges and strategies of subjectification can bring out both the symbolic, structural and positioning boundaries of identity, and the spaces of dissolution of the same categories of belonging/reference, thus revealing their conventionality, contextuality and historicity. https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/sdd/article/view/15009Islam in Europeyoung second-generation muslimreligious practicesintersectionalityacts of citizenship
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Sfide quotidiane delle giovani musulmane italiane in qualità di “testimoni di una terra di confine”
Storia delle Donne
Islam in Europe
young second-generation muslim
religious practices
intersectionality
acts of citizenship
title Sfide quotidiane delle giovani musulmane italiane in qualità di “testimoni di una terra di confine”
title_full Sfide quotidiane delle giovani musulmane italiane in qualità di “testimoni di una terra di confine”
title_fullStr Sfide quotidiane delle giovani musulmane italiane in qualità di “testimoni di una terra di confine”
title_full_unstemmed Sfide quotidiane delle giovani musulmane italiane in qualità di “testimoni di una terra di confine”
title_short Sfide quotidiane delle giovani musulmane italiane in qualità di “testimoni di una terra di confine”
title_sort sfide quotidiane delle giovani musulmane italiane in qualita di testimoni di una terra di confine
topic Islam in Europe
young second-generation muslim
religious practices
intersectionality
acts of citizenship
url https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/sdd/article/view/15009
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