期刊名称：Encounters in Theory and History of Education
印刷版ISSN：1925-8992
出版年度：2003
卷号：4
期号：0
语种：English
出版社：Fueen's University
摘要：Con el objetivo de comprender lo que significa para los jóvenes inmigrantes establecer nuevas relaciones en un nuevo país, exploramos sus redes de relaciones sociales, y las situamos en el marco de la ciudadanía, entendida como un concepto relacional y espacial. Utilizando representaciones gráficas sobre sus amistades producidas por aproximadamente 60 inmigrantes adolescentes, analizamos posibles influencias de variables como genero, etnicidad, tiempo y contexto. También exploramos el significado filosófico de la orientación espacial de los dibujos (vertical u horizontal), así como las propias definiciones de amistad elaboradas por los propios jóvenes. Los resultados sugieren que una orientación a la amistad vertical, jerárquica y competitiva puede ser ventajosa, en el sentido de que una comprensión de la amistad como un recurso de alternativas mutuas permite lazos débiles con conocidos para facilitar la movilidad social, el flujo de información, y la integración. Así, el desarrollo de amistades cercanas es una condición suficiente para acceder al conocimiento, las habilidades y las perspectivas disponibles en dichas amistades, pero no suficiente para asegurar la integración y la participación en la sociedad. Al expandir la noción de ciudadanía relacional, incluimos tanto a la formación de amigos y de conocidos; los primeros promueven la comprensión de la confianza recíproca, y los segundos permiten la inversión en acciones para el bien común.↓Seeking to understand what it means for immigrant youth to make new connections in a host country, we explore their networks of social relations and situate these with respect to social capital and to citizenship as a relational and spatial concept. Focusing on graphic representations of friendships of nearly sixty immigrant adolescents, the analysis examines the possible influences of gender, ethnicity, time and context; the philosophical meanings of the horizontal or vertical spatial orientation of these drawings; as well as the youth’s own understandings of friendship. The findings indicate that holding a vertical, hierarchical and competitive orientation to friendship may be advantageous, in that the youth’s understanding of friendship as a mutually alternating resource allows for weak ties of acquaintances to facilitate social mobility, the transportation of information and integration. Thus, the development of close friends to access the knowledge, skills and perspectives available in such friendships, family and school, is necessary but not sufficient to assure integration and participation in society. The notion of relational citizenship is expanded to include the development of both close friends and acquaintances for the former fosters an understanding of reciprocal trust while the latter allow for investment in action for the common good.
其他摘要：Seeking to understand what it means for immigrant youth to make new connections in a host country, we explore their networks of social relations and situate these with respect to social capital and to citizenship as a relational and spatial concept. Focusing on graphic representations of friendships of nearly sixty immigrant adolescents, the analysis examines the possible influences of gender, ethnicity, time and context; the philosophical meanings of the horizontal or vertical spatial orientation of these drawings; as well as the youth’s own understandings of friendship. The findings indicate that holding a vertical, hierarchical and competitive orientation to friendship may be advantageous, in that the youth’s understanding of friendship as a mutually alternating resource allows for weak ties of acquaintances to facilitate social mobility, the transportation of information and integration. Thus, the development of close friends to access the knowledge, skills and perspectives available in such friendships, family and school, is necessary but not sufficient to assure integration and participation in society. The notion of relational citizenship is expanded to include the development of both close friends and acquaintances for the former fosters an understanding of reciprocal trust while the latter allow for investment in action for the common good.
关键词：juventud inmigrante; ciudadanía relacional y especial; orientaciones a la amistad; representaciones; redes; reciprocidad;immigrant youth; relational and spatial citizenship; orientations to friendship; representations; social networks; reciprocity
其他关键词：immigrant youth; relational and spatial citizenship; orientations to friendship; representations; social networks; reciprocity
