<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper presents a case study of two adult crosscultural kids (ACCK’s) from a family of Saxons that emigrated from Romania during communist period. They had what we call a wandering life before resettling as adults in Romania. The objective of the paper is to present and analyse how the ethnic and cultural selfidentification discourse of the two is constructed and its modulations between a primordial stance and a contextual one.</p></abstract>

The paper presents a case study of two adult crosscultural kids (ACCK’s) from a family of Saxons that emigrated from Romania during communist period. They had what we call a wandering life before resettling as adults in Romania. The objective of the paper is to present and analyse how the ethnic and cultural selfidentification discourse of the two is constructed and its modulations between a primordial stance and a contextual one.

Wandering lives: a case study of ethnic and cultural selfidentification discourses of two adult cross-cultural kids from a family of Transylvanian Saxons

Department of Social Work, Journalism, Public Relations, and Sociology

Social Change Review

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The paper presents a case study of two adult crosscultural kids (ACCK’s) from a family of Saxons that emigrated from Romania during communist period. They had...

Wandering lives: a case study of ethnic and cultural selfidentification discourses of two adult cross-cultural kids from a family of Transylvanian Saxons

Pubblicato online: 02 ott 2020

Pagine: 1 - 32

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scr-2019-0004

Parole chiave
Identity, Migration, Third cultural kids, Transylvanian Saxons, Case study

© 2019 Horațiu Rusu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Wandering lives: a case study of ethnic and cultural selfidentification discourses of two adult cross-cultural kids from a family of Transylvanian Saxons

Pubblicato online: 02 ott 2020

Pagine: 1 - 32

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scr-2019-0004

Parole chiaveIdentity, Migration, Third cultural kids, Transylvanian Saxons, Case study

© 2019 Horațiu Rusu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Parole chiave
Identity, Migration, Third cultural kids, Transylvanian Saxons, Case study