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Volume 44, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 67-81

“Born in France, I feel like I’m Tamil first and foremost. Who am I?" Hybrid identities and dynamic positioning of adults of Tamil migrant parents in France [«Née en France, j’ai l’impression que je suis tamoule avant tout. Qui suis-je?»: Identités hybrides et positionnements dynamiques des adultes de parents migrants tamouls en France] (Article) (Open Access)

Vijayaratnam M. , Skandrani S. , Moro M.-R.
  • a l’Université Paris Descartes, Laboratoire de psychologie clinique, psychopatholgie, psychanalyse (EA 4056), France
  • b L’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, EA 4430. Psychologue clinicienne et thérapeute familiale à la MDA, Hôpital Cochin, France
  • c Service de la Maison des Adolescents, Hôpital Cochin, France

Abstract

To grow up, adult migrant children have to link the cultural references of their parents as well as their culture of French belonging. Based on interviews with fifteen young women from the second generation of Tamils Indians and Sri Lankans of France, we question their positioning and identity strategies. Qualitative analyzes reveal that young Tamil women born in France have a repertoire of identities that changes constantly depending on the situation. This allows them to explore different identity positions in order to engage and adhere to those who correspond to them. © Département de psychiatrie de l’Université de Montréal, 2019.

Author Keywords

Filiation Identity rearrangements Children of migrants Group of belonging Identity voices

Index Keywords

voice female Tamil (people) qualitative analysis clinical article Article France interview Indian Sri Lankan human adult migrant human experiment Child
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85073286630&doi=10.7202%2f1060276ar&partnerID=40&md5=16a07536c518fcb143d05856a69d948a
DOI: 10.7202/1060276ar
ISSN: 03836320
Original Language: French