Adozione internazionale: multiculturalità nell’identità? Una lettura educativa e interculturale.

Since long time and still today, Italy has been a country where the phenomenon of international adoption is very considerable: it is in fact second in the world only to the United States. The development of children's identities in international and interethnic adoption can be complex because it involves people born and often lived, for some years of their young life, in geographical, human, social and cultural contexts very different from those they live after adoption. So, the crucial question is: is there any possibility of expression for multiculturalism of these identities? that is, for the coexistence of elements referable to different cultural and experiential contexts? The second question is: if this multiculturality of identity is present, can it be expressed and recognized in harmonious coexistence and integration of all its parts, in an intercultural way? The present work analyzes these particular issues related to foreign daughters and sons in adoption.