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Immigrant Youth, Hip Hop, and Online Games - Alternative Approaches to the Inclusion of Working-Class and Second Generation Migrant Teens (Hardcover)
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Immigrant Youth, Hip Hop, and Online Games - Alternative Approaches to the Inclusion of Working-Class and Second Generation Migrant Teens (Hardcover)
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Anti-Muslim racism with its attendant xenophobia and (the fear of)
Salafist hostility are two of the most essential problems facing
Europe today. Both result from the enormous failure of the
continent's integration policies, which have either insisted on
immigrants' rigid assimilation or left immigrants to fend for
themselves. This book radically breaks with contemporary approaches
to immigrant assimilation and integration. Instead it examines
non-institutional approaches that facilitate immigrant inclusion
through the examples of three alternative small-scale projects that
have impacted the lives of urban working-class youth, specifically
with second-generation immigrant roots, in Vienna, Austria. These
projects involve online gaming, hip hop as an art form, and social
work as emancipatory pedagogic practice (commonly referred to as
street work). This book investigates working-class teenagers'
social networks and describes an online game designed to provide a
platform for interaction between non-immigrant and immigrant youth
who usually either do not interact or display prejudice when they
engage each other. Hip hop can provide both a necessary outlet for
alienated youth to articulate their frustrations and a highly
effective tool for transforming inclusion conflicts. Social work
with marginalized youth is crucial for successful inclusion.
Specifically individual support in small-scale settings provides a
unique opportunity to open up spaces for discouraged and
disaffected teenagers to gain self-worth and dignity. While the
book focuses on identity formation and the teenagers' agency, it
argues that only projects that include both "newcomer" and "native"
can aid in overcoming exclusionary attitudes and policies,
eventually allowing some form of social bonding to take place.
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