Ph.D Scholarship Programme "Heraclitus II"

The proposed research focuses on the so called ‘second generation’ migrants of Albanian
origin, who were born and/or grown up in Greece. The production of hip hop
music will constitute the main research ‘site’, in the sense of the specific ways
that this production intensifies or hinders the intercultural relations and the
integration of young people practicing this music. The specific form of youth
culture is studied as a site of performing and re-constructing their multiple
(migrant, youth, etc.) identities in the context of the integration process
and/or as a response to experiences of social exclusion. The study will examine
whether hip hop music that is produced, performed, and is being circulated through
the internet and other technologies by second generation migrants, helps them
become socially visible and constitute their subjectivities, and how in
parallel this participation into a global youth culture affects the integration
process and the emergence of hybrid identities that go beyond national/ethnic ‘borders’.