To Be or Not to Be a Chechen? The Second Generation of Chechens in Europe and Their Choices of Identity
Open Access
- 31 March 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Frontiers in Sociology
Abstract
Approximately a quarter of Chechnya's population left the republic due to the Russo-Chechen wars and the brutality of the regime established after them. Many of the Chechen migrants settled in Europe where cultural, religious, and social differences compelled them to go through the daunting process of identity negotiation. Although most of the first-generation Chechen migrants managed to preserve their original identity, this was not always the case for their children. This article aims to identify the factors that determine the identity preferences of second-generation Chechens in Europe. The paper presents three cases which illustrate very different outcomes of the identity formation and negotiation processes. This ethnographic study concludes that home education impacted the identity choices of the migrants' children the most.This publication has 42 references indexed in Scilit:
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