Representaciones identitarias en los perfiles de Facebook de los refugiados en el contexto italiano

Rosella Bianco; Mónica Ortiz-Cobo

doi:10.33732/ixc/10/01Repres

Authors

Rosella Bianco Instituto de Migraciones, Universidad de Granada http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6327-6464
Mónica Ortiz-Cobo Instituto de Migraciones, Universidad de Granada http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8721-1905

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33732/ixc/10/01Repres

Keywords:

identity, refugees, Facebook, Italy, integration.

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyse the relationship between Facebook publications and the identity processes of refugees, since through social networks identity is constructed and reconstructed. This article presents the analysis of the data produced from an ethnography conducted in the Italian context, in which we have used in-depth interviews and virtual observation of the Facebook social network. Based on the contents about the relation with the country of origin, and those with the host country, we have been able to draw the identities of the refugees. Their representation reflects the particular migration path of the forced migrants. The reconstruction that derives from the migration path of the refugees takes different forms. While diasporic identity emerges between some, others manifest a multiple and hybrid identity, and finally other refugees isolate, and hence, keep their identity of origin.

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