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‘As a rice plant in a wheat field’: identity negotiation among children of Chinese immigrants

Abstract This work presents an overview of the results of a 2003/4 research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Welfare. The goal of the project was to provide some insight into the process of identity construction among children of immigrants in Italy. Being in charge of the Chinese case study, I carried out 8 months of fieldwork among a group of Chinese teenagers in Rome. The results show how the young Chinese in Italy maintain a strong awareness of their ethnic belonging. The Italian environment is perceived as a collection of opportunities: tools that can be exploited to pursue an ideal of young Chinese overseas at one time deeply attached to the culture of origin but also anti-traditional.