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Adaptation Strategies Through a New Identity: A Comparative Analysis of Two Generations of Chechen Migrants in Belgium

Authors
Lida Kurbanova1, *, Hanifa Nalgieva2, Laila Ismailova3, Zara Umarova3
1Chechen State University named after A.A. Kadyrova, Department of Theory and Technology of Social Work, Grozny, Russia
2Chechen State Pedagogical University, Department of Primary Education Methodology, Grozny, Russia
3Grozny State Oil Technical University named after L.D. Millionshchikova, Department of social and humanitarian disciplines, Grozny, Russia
Corresponding Author
Lida Kurbanova
Available Online 22 February 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220208.041How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Sociology of migration; Identity; Two generations of migrants; Adaptation; Traditional values
Abstract

The study analyses the structure of the formation of identification strategies, social, cultural, religious attitudes of two generations of Chechen migrants: those who arrived in the country as adults and their children, who grew up in migration conditions.

The analysis is based on comparing the results of sociological studies conducted by the author in 2011 among Chechen migrants who came to Belgium in the 90s during two Chechen military companies and the results of studies conducted in 2019 among the second-generation Chechen migrants who grew up in Belgium.

The analysis made it possible to build a new paradigm of the process of adaptation of migrants of two generations due to the process of identity transformation. At the same time, it was revealed that the adaptation strategies of parents changed during the period of growing up of children from forced integration into someone else’s social order due to the lack of a real alternative to the conscious adoption of basic life strategies in the country of residence. The adaptation of children who grew up in the migration conditions differs from the nature of the adaptation of parents. If the adaptation of parents was primarily limited to the level of acceptance/rejection of everyday practices and the temporary prospects of their and their children’s residence in the country of migration, then adaptation as a process of the second generation of migrants affected deeper levels of identification characteristics.

The paper attempts to analyse the content of the discourse “new identity”. This new identity model, which we are cautiously “groping” among second-generation Chechen migrants, can serve as a vital resource for adaptation in places of settlement. In some sociological studies, the respondents themselves designated this new model as “new Chechens”.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the IX International Scientific and Practical Conference “Current Problems of Social and Labour Relations" (ISPC-CPSLR 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
22 February 2022
ISBN
978-94-6239-541-1
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220208.041How to use a DOI?
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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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