ABSTRACT
In a study of gender identity and immigration there must be a specific analysis of the role played by migrants' daughters in generating pathways of construction and reconstruction of collective identities. This chapter deals with the key points of this issue and how it could be approached in relation to the Italian context and in connection with second-generation migrants. Another thematic isotopy frequent in autobiographical second-generation narrations is the relationship between belonging to the culture in which one is born or in which one has lived since childhood, and the adherence, or its attempt, to their fathers' and mothers' religion, as often happens with young Muslim women. Listening to others, to the self-narrating voices, sets in motion the identity-construction in building a dialogue, migrant women's autobiographical and testimony-narrations function as a passkey to a point of view that may affect the stereotypical concept of differences.
