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8 - Identity construction among transnational migrants: a dialogical analysis of the interplay between personal, social and societal levels

from Part I - Theoretical contributions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Hubert J. M. Hermans
Affiliation:
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Thorsten Gieser
Affiliation:
Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
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This chapter illustrates how phenomena on the personal, social and societal levels work together in the production of novel I-positions within the dialogical self. Globalization has opened the door to greater discretionary transnational migration and ushered in a new immigration. Hybridization can occur in situations where multiple I-positions are simultaneously active and cannot simply coexist, either because of conflict or because of the creative urge towards synthesis. The chapter approaches hybridization through three co-necessary levels of analysis: the personal, social and societal. Societal-level formations function as constraints on and promoters of forms of hybridization and, therefore, the emergence of third positions. Further research into the relationship between specific societal-level formations and the dynamics of expressive dominance would strengthen the ability of dialogical self theory (DST) to address the personal, social and societal levels of analysis while maintaining a focus on the dynamic and developmental potential of DST.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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