Flussi migratori e identità: genere come parametro di oscillazioni identitarie

identity construction of 6 Croatian women and 5 Croatian men who emigrated to Italy in the early 1990s and repatriated to Croatia in the first decade of the 2000s. Our research confirms gender as a relevant parameter of identity construction and confirms that female interviewees, during their stay in Italy, preferred the use of forms perceived as standard language forms. It also shows that women generally perceive the Italian social and linguis tic context as more refined then the Croatian one and as the one they want to be identified with. Men, on the contrary, report on a stronger attachment to their Croatian origins.