The New Perception of the Other in Chipilo, Mexico

This ethnographic work focuses on Chipilo, a bilingual immigrant community of Italian origin in Mexico that has managed to maintain its dialect and culture for more than six generations thanks to a strong sense and pride of its ethnic identity. Socioeconomic changes and increase in mixed marriages d...

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Autores: Sbrighi, Lucia, Greathouse Amador, Louise Mary, Preciado Lloyd, Patricia N.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/43408
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/43408
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Chipilo
Mexico
Perception
Identity
Otherness
Immigration
México
Percepción
Identidad
Otredad
Inmigración
Lingüística
Sociología
Linguistics
Sociology
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Sumario:This ethnographic work focuses on Chipilo, a bilingual immigrant community of Italian origin in Mexico that has managed to maintain its dialect and culture for more than six generations thanks to a strong sense and pride of its ethnic identity. Socioeconomic changes and increase in mixed marriages during the last twenty years have affected the process of identity construction. Starting with an analysis of the characteristics that have typically come to define identity and otherness, we examine the new perception of “the other” from the internal perspective of the community. Data derived from a corpus of interviews provide grounds to claim the emergence of a different discourse representation of “otherness” among groups within the same community.