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Negotiating Italianità: Ethnicity and Peer-Group Formation among Transnational Second- Generation Italians in Switzerland Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE SECOND-GENERATION MIGRANTS ETHINICITY CULTURE INTEGRATION It is common for the descendants of migrants to go through phases of contrasting feelings of belonging during adolescence, negotiating their affiliations to their co-ethnics, the majority society and migrants of other origins. Many studies focusing on the second generation have looked at how migrant youth create new spaces of belonging, shaped by the plural social systems in which they grow up. Drawing on research on second-generation Italians in Switzerland, this paper analyses such processes of negotiation and discusses the importance of peer groups. It looks at the various positionalities developed by members of the second generation and demonstrates that rather than solely motivated by ethnicity and shared culture, these are also shaped by factors such as shared interests with peers. By moving away from a primary focus on ethnicity, which dominates research on migrant youth, the paper shows why members of the second generation consciously or unconsciously reify or disregard their migrant backgrounds. 2026-09-30T11:44:32Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33352881.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Negotiating_Italianit_Ethnicity_and_Peer-Group_Formation_among_Transnational_Second-_Generation_Italians_in_Switzerland/33352881 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0