Immigrant parents facing ‘Millennials’: new generational divides and parental roles at risk
| Title | Immigrant parents facing ‘Millennials’: new generational divides and parental roles at risk |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2013 |
| Authors | Premazzi V, Ricucci R |
| Journal | Interdisciplinary Journal of Family Studies |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pagination | 151-171 |
| Date Published | 12/2013 |
| Publisher | Padova University Press |
| Place Published | Padova, IT |
| ISSN Number | 2282-2011 |
| Keywords | digital divide., generations, immigrant families, linguistic divide |
| Abstract | In any migration process, it is now acknowledged that young people acquire cultural and linguistic skills more quickly than parents. The new language makes parents silent, because they often know and use it badly. Today a new feature stakes and undermines the parental role in emigration: the children of immigrants are digital natives and they use the Internet and the web easily, often transferring the off-line communication on internet. This relationship with the 2.0 communication is likely to broaden the gap with the parents’ generation. The article considers Moroccans and Egyptians living in Turin and investigates how the knowledge of the language and of the new technologies influences the parental role and the consequent family and educational dynamics. |
