Abstract

PIZZINATO, Adolfo  and  SARRIERA, Jorge Castellá. Identity: elements of ethnicity among students. Interam. j. psychol. [online]. 2008, vol.42, n.2, pp. 298-306. ISSN 0034-9690.

The ethnicity has been discussed thoroughly on psychology and social sciences, by different investigations. However, the ethnicity and the ethnic identity, still do not constitutes a focus of attention in Brazil. The objective of this work is to discusse the themes regarding the ethnicity, presenting the results of a research developed among students, immigrants and not-immigrants - on Porto Alegre (Brazil). The results present affinity with investigations in other contexts, considering macro-contextual aspects (as the migrations and the globalization) and micro-contextual aspects (the border situation and local history). Was detected an tendency of identity’s hibridization between both groups, indicating an adaptative process by the immigrants and a maintenance of the local ethnic migratory identity roots by the other participants.

Keywords : Ethnicity; Identity; Immigration; Childhood.

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