Mobile memories, voices of grandchildren and grandparents in transnational families The paper presents a section of a quantitative and qualitative research, which took place in the Italian North-eastern region between 1982 and 2013, aiming at finding the images and relationship that grandchildren live with their grandparents (Gecchele, 2015). The essay takes into account stories written by pupils of primary and secondary schools, children of migrant parent who were born in Italy or that came through family reunification. The younger ones, engaged together with their parents in the complex process of interacting and integrating with the realities of the host country, express the relationship with their grandparents by showing a cultural and a value-based crossbreeding passing through at least three generations. In the migration process, how does the generational transmission of family educational models get activated? What role is reserved for the elderly who normally remain in the country of origin? Which in the “weight” of oral memories when the youngsters during the migration process tend to forget the language of the elderly? The voices of the older and younger people, geographically distant and always in tension between a before-migration period and a contemporary now, call for expanding the queries on the relationship between the memories of family education and the forging of mobile individual and family identities.
Il contributo presenta la sezione di una ricerca quantitativa e qualitativa, svoltasi nel Nord-Est italiano tra il 1982 e 2013, con lo scopo di rilevare le immagini e la relazione che i nipoti vivono con le loro nonne e nonni (Gecchele, 2015). Nel saggio si considerano i racconti scritti dagli alunni delle scuole primarie e secondarie figli di genitori migranti nati in Italia o giunti attraverso il ricongiungimento familiare. I più giovani, impegnati con i genitori nel complesso percorso di interazione e integrazione con le realtà del Paese di accoglienza, esprimono il rapporto con i loro nonni mostrando un meticciamento culturale e valoriale che attraversa almeno tre generazioni. Nelle migrazioni quali modalità di trasmissione generazionale dei modelli educativi familiari vengono attivati? Quale ruolo è riservato ai più anziani che normalmente rimangono nel paese di partenza? Le memorie orali che “peso” hanno quando nella migrazione i più giovani tendono a scordare la lingua dei più anziani? Geograficamente lontane, le voci dei più anziani e dei più giovani, sempre in tensione tra un prima della migrazione e un adesso contemporaneo, richiedono di allargare le interrogazioni sulla relazione tra memorie di educazione familiare e formazione di identità individuali e familiari “mobili”.
Memorie mobili: voci di nipoti e di nonni nelle famiglie transnazionali
CIMA, Rosanna
2017-01-01
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Mobile memories, voices of grandchildren and grandparents in transnational families The paper presents a section of a quantitative and qualitative research, which took place in the Italian North-eastern region between 1982 and 2013, aiming at finding the images and relationship that grandchildren live with their grandparents (Gecchele, 2015). The essay takes into account stories written by pupils of primary and secondary schools, children of migrant parent who were born in Italy or that came through family reunification. The younger ones, engaged together with their parents in the complex process of interacting and integrating with the realities of the host country, express the relationship with their grandparents by showing a cultural and a value-based crossbreeding passing through at least three generations. In the migration process, how does the generational transmission of family educational models get activated? What role is reserved for the elderly who normally remain in the country of origin? Which in the “weight” of oral memories when the youngsters during the migration process tend to forget the language of the elderly? The voices of the older and younger people, geographically distant and always in tension between a before-migration period and a contemporary now, call for expanding the queries on the relationship between the memories of family education and the forging of mobile individual and family identities.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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