RT Journal Article
T1 Self-identification in a Spanish Barrio and a French Banlieue: The case of north African second generations
T2 Identidades personales en un barrio de español y en una banlieue francesa: El caso de los jóvenes de segunda generación de origen norafricano
A1 Eseverri Mayer, Cecilia
AB This comparative and qualitative research examines the types of ethnic, racial, religious, and social identification that North-African second generations adopted in a banlieue of Paris and a peripheral barrio of Madrid. Four types of self-identification were detected in the neighborhood of Les Bosquets (Paris) and three in the neighborhood of San Cristobal (Madrid). In Les Bosquets, isolation, Islamophobia and the relationships with the police give rise to a "reactive ethnicity"; a new conservative Islam gains many followers ("Muslim self-identification"); race appears for the first time as an element of self-identification ("indigenous self-identification”) and secularism has waned (“laïc self-identification”). In San Cristóbal, a significant share still feels like immigrants (“immigrant identification”); a new Spanish-Muslim generation (“hybrid self-identification”) is born, and the most vulnerable youth adopt a conservative Islam while simultaneously developing a sense of “neighborhood pride” and identification with the working class (“neighborhood identification”).
PB Center for Ethnic and Cultural Studies (JECS)
SN 2149-1291
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100035
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100035
LA eng
NO Eseverri-Mayer, C. (2021). Self-Identification in a Spanish barrio and a French banlieue: The Case of North African Second Generations. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 8(2), 145–166. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/640
NO Fundación BBVA
NO European Commission
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 30 dic 2025