Role of Media in Construction of Identity and Integration of Young Migrant Adolescents from Former Yugoslavia in Slovenian Society

Authors

  • Karmen Erjavec

Keywords:

adolescents, immigration, polymedia, Slovenia, countries of former Yugoslavia

Abstract

Article answers on the question, what is the role of the media in the construction of identity and integration of young migrant adolescents from former Yugoslavia in Slovenian society. The theoretical section conceptualizes the relationship among socialization, integration, identity and media use by adolescents. The main section represents results of in-depth interviews with migrant adolescents from the former Yugoslavia. They show that media play an important role in the integration of migrant adolescents. Interviewees regularly use the Internet for maintaining old and establishing new intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic relations, receiving validation for their views and actions, and acceptance by their peers. Media play a conflicting role in the identification with a new society. On the one hand, their negative representation of the migrants deepens the gap between majority and ethnic minorities; on the other hand, the personal inter-ethnic communication on the Internet reduces this gap.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Karmen Erjavec

Dr. komunikologije, redna profesorica, Fakulteta za družbene vede Univerze v Ljubljani, Kardeljeva pl. 5,
SI-1000 Ljubljana

References

Arnett, Jeffrey J. (2001). Reading on Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Berry, John W. (1997). Immigration, acculturation, and adaptation. Applied Psychology 46/1, 5–68.

Berry, John W. (2001). A psychology of immigration. Journal of Social Issues 57/3, 615–631.

Bonfadelli, Heinz (2009). Media Use by Ethnic Minorities Youth in Switzerland. Media Migration Integration (ur. Rainer Geißler, Horst Pöttker). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 45–71.

Brendler, Anna-Helen, Jöckel, Sven, Niemann, Filia, Peter, Sophie, Schneider, Helen, Stiebeling, Hannah, Weber, Tanja (2013). Die Rolle der Individual- und Massenmedien im Integrationsprozess von Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund. Publizistik 58/2, 161–178.

Bucher, Priska, Piga, Andrea (2009). Medien und Migration (ur. Urs Dahinden, Daniel Süss). Konstanz: UVK, 33–50.

Buckingham, David (2008). Youth, identity, and digital media. Cambridge: MIT.

Dekleva, Bojan, Razpotnik, Špela (2002). Čefurji so bili rojeni tukaj. Ljubljana: Pedagoška fakulteta.

Erjavec, Karmen (2013a). Mediji v življenju slovenskih otrok. Annales 23/1, 121–132.

Erjavec, Karmen (2013b). Vloga interneta pri integraciji mladih priseljencev iz držav nekdanje Jugoslavije v slovensko družbo. Dve domovini / Two Homelands 37/1, 7–20.

Esser, Hartmut (2000a). Assimilation, Integration und ethnische Konflikte. Migranten und Medien (ur. Heribert Schatz, Christina Holtz-Bacha, Jörg-Uwe Nieland). Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 25–37.

Esser, Hartmut (2000b). Soziologie. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.

Esser, Hartmut (2006). Sprache und Integration. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.

Fiske, John (2001). Understanding Popular Culture. London: Routledge.

Geißler, Rainer (2005). Interkulturelle Integration von Migranten. Massenmedien und die Integration ethnischer Minderheiten in Deutschland (ur. Rainer Geißler, Horst Pöttker). Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag, 45–70.

Georgiou, Myria (2001). Crossing the Boundaries of the Ethnic Home: Media Consumption and Ethnic Identity Construction in the Public Space: The Case of the Cypriot Community Centre in North London. Gazette 63/4, 311–329.

Georgiou, Myria (2006). Diaspora, Identity, and the Media: Diasporic Transnationalism and Mediated Spatialities. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Gergen, Kenneth J. (1991). The Saturated Self. New York: Basic Books.

Gordon, Milton M. (1964). Assimilation in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hall, Stuart, du Gay, Paul (1996). Questions of cultural identity. London: Sage.

Hargreaves, Alec G., Mahdjoub, Dalila (1997). Satellite Television Viewing among Ethnic Minorities in France. European Journal of Communication 12/4, 459–477.

Hurrelmann, Klaus (2006). Einführung in die Sozialisationstheorie. Weinheim: Beltz.

Južnič, Stane (1993). Identiteta. Ljubljana: Fakulteta za družbene vede Univerze v Ljubljani.

Keupp, Heiner (1999). Identitätskonstruktion. Reinbek: Rowohlt.

Keupp, Heiner (2009). Identitätskonstruktion in der spätmodernen. Jugend – Medien – Identität (ur. Helga Theunert). München: Kopaed, 53–77.

Kralj, Ana (2008). Nezaželeni? Medijske in politične konstrukcije tujcev v Sloveniji. Dve domovini / Two Homelands 27, 169–190.

Kronja, Ivana (2001). Smrtonosni sjaj. Bograd: Tehnokratia.

Ling, Rich (2004). The mobile connection. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.

Madianou, Mirca, Miller, Daniel (2012). Migration and New Media. New York: Routledge.

Livingstone, Sonia, Haddon, Lesli, Görzig, Anke, Olafsson, Kjartan (2011). Risk and Safety on the Internet. London: EU Kids Online.

Lobe, Bojana, Muha, Sandra (2011). Internet v vsakdanjem življenju slovenskih otrok in mladostnikov. Ljubljana: Fakulteta za družbene vede Univerze v Ljubljani.

Medvešek, Mojca, Bešter, Romana (2010). Migrantski otroci v slovenskem šolskem sistemu. Migranti v Sloveniji (ur. Karmen Medica, Goran Lukič, Milan Bufon). Koper: Annales, 97–126.

Medvešek, Mojca, Bešter, Romana (2010). Migrantski otroci v slovenskem šolskem sistemu. Migranti v Sloveniji (ur. Karmen Medica, Goran Lukič, Milan Bufon). Koper: Annales, 97–126.

Naficy, Hamid (1999). The making of exile cultures: The Cultural Studies Reader (ur. Simon During). Routledge: New York, 537–563.

Neyrand, Gérard (2003). (Ne)moč adolescentov. Ljubljana: Oka.

Park, Robert E. (1950). Race and Culture. Glencoe: The Free Press.

Piga, Andrea (2007). Mediennutzung von Migranten. Medien und Migration: Europa als multikultureller Raum? (ur. Heinz Bonfadelli, Heinz Moser). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 209–236.

Pöttker, Horst (2009). Successful Integration? Media Migration Integration (ur. Rainer Geißler, Horst Pöttker). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 9–26.

Schönpflug, Ute (2008). Sozialisation in der Migrationssituation. Handbuch Sozialisationsforschung (ur. Klaus Hurrelmann, Matthias Grundmann, Sabine Walper). Weinheim: Beltz, 217–289.

Trebbe, Joachim, Heft, Annett, Weiß, Hans-Jürgen (2010). Mediennutzung junger Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund. Berlin: Vistas.

Vlašić, Andreas (2012). Medien und Integration. Publizistik 57, 419–444.

Walker, Robert (1988). Applied Qualitative Research. Vermont: Gower.

Downloads

Published

2015-01-01

How to Cite

Erjavec, K. . (2015). Role of Media in Construction of Identity and Integration of Young Migrant Adolescents from Former Yugoslavia in Slovenian Society. Two Homelands, (41). Retrieved from https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/10802

Issue

No. 41 (2015)

Section

Articles

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Authors guarantee that the work is their own original creation and does not infringe any statutory or common-law copyright or any proprietary right of any third party. In case of claims by third parties, authors commit their self to defend the interests of the publisher, and shall cover any potential costs.

More in: Submission chapter