Analisi comparativa relativa all'impatto sociale, culturale e linguistico dell' immigrazione contemporanea albanese all'interno della realtà veneta

This thesis is concerned with the analysis of the peculiar aspects characterizing the contemporary migration phenomena of the Albanians from the Balkan area to the Venetian region. It explores three disciplinary fields: the social, the cultural and sociolinguistic studies. In the first part, the respective phenomenology and historical framework of the migration’ events (1990-2010) are reconstructed in order to explore their delineating features. Besides, the contemporary Albanian society’s background (1985-2010) is studied with the purpose of compounding an integral view of the intersected trajectories of the Albanians in the history of their land of origin/of emigration, before their arrival in their land of immigration. The second part of this thesis includes the fieldworks’ results related to the social question of the different Albanian focus groups examined in Venetian region and Albania, compatible with the transnational vision of migration as a double social fact that concerns the researches conducted in either the emigration or the immigration contexts of the migrant. The third part of the study is concerned with the exported, evolved or transformed aspects of Albanian culture in the observed subjects, with particular attention to the second generation’ Albanians. In the fourth part, the linguistic productions of the second generation’ Albanians are analysed in order to verify the difficulties of preservation of the Albanian language, the differentiated linguistic practises of L1 and L2 (bilingual mode and code-switching) in the respective domains (social or family).