The dynamics of social representations in a situation of immigration

Abstract

For the author, globalisation, defined as the internationalisation of exchanges, involves bearing in mind the migration issue in great national and international strategic concerns. Discourses on migration are closely linked with social representations in migratory events. This article constitutes an attempt to focus on the dynamics of social relations in a multicultural situation generated by migration, the objective of which lies in deconstructing the socialrepresentations of the immigrant. With the aim of establishing a theoretical framework for capturing the dynamics of immigrants’ representations and making the instability and fragility of these relations explicit, it presents a brief historical compendium of immigration, before situating the stages of the construction of the social representation, differentiating identity and otherness.

Keywords

• globalisation
• migrations
• Europe
• Maghrebis
• cultural identity
• social interaction