Mobilità studentesca, transnazionalismo e ibridizzazione culturale

By using the findings of a field study concerning Greek student mobility in Italy, this paper makes a concrete contribution to the international and European debate on the study of transnational migration. It analyses the socio-cultural identity building process of Greek students in Italy, highlighting new forms of citizenship and cultural identities that often go beyond the perimeter of Nation-states and give rise to socialisation processes characterized by fluidity and syncretism. These new forms of citizenship and cultural identities, and the strategies through which identity is constructed in relation to others, involve the creation of transnational social spaces, the relations that Greek students maintain with their places of origin, the exchanges between the two sides of the Mediterranean and the way in which Greek students seek to reproduce social practices that recall the motherland.