ABSTRACT
While previous chapters addressed questions of structural integration of the second generation, the present one deals with the socio-cultural dimension of integration and focuses on how second-generation respondents construct personal identity by selecting among and arranging available identification references. As a consequence of their parents’ migratory history, children of immigrants can, and are sometimes pressured to, form attachments to multiple sources of identification emerging from their parents’ nations, cultures and religions and from the cultures of the country where they were born and grew up (among others see Gordon 1964; Basch et al. 1994; Vertovec 1999).
