Identities and Feelings of (Un)Belonging among Second-Generation Migrants

Intervention de Heidi Martins à l'Université de Fribourg (CH)

Monday, 23 October 2023
15:15 – 16:45
Regina Mundi, Rue P.-A. de Faucigny 2, 1700 Freiburg
Room: RM 02, S-1.133

FACULTÉ DES LETTRES
DÉPARTEMENT DES SCIENCES DE L’ÉDUCATION ET DE LA FORMATION
PHILOSOPHISCHE FAKULTÄT
DEPARTEMENT ERZIEHUNGS- UND BILDUNGSWISSENSCHAFTEN


Identities and Feelings of (Un)Belonging among Second-Generation Migrants

How is migration experienced by second-generation migrants?
How do they negotiate feelings of (un)belonging over their life course?
What is the significance of their childhood experiences for their actual identities?

Adopting three theoretical perspectives – the transnational (Levitt & Glick-Schiller, 2004), the relational (Emirbayer, 1997), and the life course (Gherghel, & Saint-Jacques, 2013)

Dr. Heidi Martins will discuss the “sources of tension” underlying second-generation migrants’ feelings of (un)belonging and show how these tensions are linked to pride, guilt, and gratitude towards parents. The study is based on interviews with second-generation Portuguese migrants in Luxembourg in their early adulthood.





Dr. Heidi Martins is a research associate at the Documentation Centre for Migration (CDMH) in Luxembourg. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Univer-sity of Luxembourg and two Master’s degrees: One from the University of Minho (Portugal) in collaboration with the University of Luxembourg, and another from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). Her main interests are urban temporalities, mobilities, identities, and second-generation migrants.