"I feel like having no country": ethno-cultural identity constructs in the Romanian Diaspora in Greece Cover Image

„Mă simt fără patrie”: construcții identitare etno-culturale în diaspora românească din Grecia
"I feel like having no country": ethno-cultural identity constructs in the Romanian Diaspora in Greece

Author(s): Delia Stefenel
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Institutul European
Keywords: ethnic/cultural identity; migration; attachement; acculturation.

Summary/Abstract: Romanian migration in Mediterranean area has generated plenty of studies, but only few of them are analyzing the situation of Romanian minority in Greece. Starting from a hybrid methodology, the present paper is an attempt to localize and to nominate ethnic and cultural identity formation patterns among first-generation Romanians living in the Athens (n = 198). The main findings of our study reveal the auto/hetero - identification mechanisms specific to the bicultural practices, which are activated by means of attachment and cultural/ethnic salience and shaped by the ethno-categorical and intergroup relations.

  • Issue Year: I/2013
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 110-130
  • Page Count: 21