Identity Strategies Among Adolescent Girls of Moroccan Descent in the Netherlands

Ketner, Susan Liesbeth; Buitelaar, Marjo; Bosma, Harke

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“…In the first group context, migrant adolescents might compare their experiences with those of other peers in similar situations. Thus, migrant adolescents could first share their difficulties and solving strategies with peers belonging to their same ethnic group and, therefore, subjected to similar cultural and religious family heritage (Ketner et al 2004). Second, migrant adolescents could discuss their experiences with Italian peers.…”

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Identity Formation in Adolescents from Italian, Mixed, and Migrant Families

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The purpose of this study was to compare identity formation in adolescents from Italian (n = 261), mixed (n = 100), and migrant families (n = 148). Participants completed the Italian version of the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale that assesses identity processes in educational and relational domains. Within a variablecentered approach we found that adolescents from migrant families reported significantly higher levels of reconsideration of commitment than did their peers from Italian and mixed families. Similarly, within a person-centered approach, adolescents from migrant families were more represented in the searching moratorium status than their counterparts from Italian and mixed families. Overall, these results indicated that migrant adolescents face more difficulties to define their personal identity.

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Identity Formation in Adolescents from Italian, Mixed, and Migrant Families

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“…The presence of a coherent set of goals, ideals, values, and beliefs may help individuals decide how to proceed in the face of such incompatibilities, whereas lack of coherence in one's personal identity may render one susceptible to the extremes of either the new receiving culture or one's culture of origin. Recent qualitative research has begun to explore how immigrant individuals (e.g., girls of Moroccan decent in the Netherlands) [Ketner, Buitelaar, & Bosma, 2004] use personal identity strategies to avoid intersubjective and intrasubjective tensions in negotiating social and ethnic identity transitions. This is an important future direction for identity research [Schwartz, 2005].…”

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“…Is such 'cultural identity strain' an inevitable reality for immigrant people -especially nonwhites -in an era where cultural differences between immigrant people and their new homelands are greater than ever before? Alternatively, might biculturalism be, for some, a transformative project where individuals see themselves as agents of cultural change, harmonizing opposites within their own personal identities [Ketner et al, 2004]? Knowledge gained by exploring these questions can be used to design interventions to support immigrant people in their transactions both within the receiving society and with members of their heritage culture.…”

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“…One such effort might include working with members of the heritage culture community (particularly when working with diasporic, enclave, or religious-based groups) to defi ne acceptable parameters of biculturalism -in other words, which aspects of the receiving culture are acceptable to the community. For example, some religious-based cultural groups insist that girls abstain from dating until their marriages have been arranged [Ketner et al, 2004]. In working with youth from these groups, then, any bicultural identity recommended or endorsed within the intervention cannot include freedom to date whomever one chooses -even if such freedom is generally afforded to members of the receiving society.…”

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The Role of Identity in Acculturation among Immigrant People: Theoretical Propositions, Empirical Questions, and Applied Recommendations

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The present paper advances theoretical propositions regarding the relationship between acculturation and identity. The most central thesis argued is that acculturation represents changes in cultural identity and that personal identity has the potential to ‘anchor’ immigrant people during their transition to a new society. The article emphasizes the experiences of nonwhite, non-Western immigrant people moving to Western nations. The article also calls for research on heretofore unexplored aspects of the relationship of acculturation to personal and social identity. Ideas are proposed for interventions to promote cultural identity change and personal identity coherence.

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“…Rozario 2006), such as Islamic family law (Moors 2004), integration of Muslims in Western societies (Ketner et al 2004), economic activity of women in Muslim countries (Gundüz-Hoşgor and Smits 2008;Jansen 2004), the Islamic electoral gap (Stepan and Robertson 2003), female circumcision (Johnsdotter 2003), Arab Feminism (Ghorashi 1996) and Islamic democracy (Abou el Fadl 2004). Despite the divergence among these studies, they make clear that democracy and gender equality are at the core of the debate about Islam.…”

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On the Compatibility of Islam and Gender Equality

2008

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Although the Muslim world is sometimes depicted as a homogeneous civilization lacking democracy and gender equality, Muslim countries show tremendous economic, political and cultural variation. In this paper, this variation is used to gain insight into the determinants of women's labor market participation (LMP) in the Muslim world. We use data on 45 Muslim countries and apply SEM models to determine effects of modernization, democracy, cultural background, and state Islamization on women's participation in the formal economy (absolute LMP) and on the share of women in the labor force (relative LMP). Women's absolute LMP is higher in Muslim countries with higher levels of economic development and in the oil-exporting countries. For women's relative LMP, practical democracy (the degree to which people actively participate in the system) takes in a key position. It has a strong positive effect on women's relative LMP and mediates the effects of economic development (positive), formal democratic structures (positive) and state Islamization (negative) on women's relative LMP. Results indicate that in these countries modernization may lead to empowerment of women by increasing their absolute LMP, but that for attaining gender equality the political opportunity structures is most important.

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Identity Strategies Among Adolescent Girls of Moroccan Descent in the Netherlands

Cited by 23 publications

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Identity Formation in Adolescents from Italian, Mixed, and Migrant Families

Identity Formation in Adolescents from Italian, Mixed, and Migrant Families

The Role of Identity in Acculturation among Immigrant People: Theoretical Propositions, Empirical Questions, and Applied Recommendations

On the Compatibility of Islam and Gender Equality

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