Identities in transit, female immigration and body cultures

The study of identity and body in contemporary society, where there is considerable and inevitable cultural contact, reveals a notable diversity in the perception of both cultural and corporal identities of women immigrants. Through the problems of identities, the portrayal of female immigration and body cultures (symbols, adornments, body mutilations, polygamy, the veil, etc.), the paper analyses the female immigrants’ role in the construction of new identities in multicultural contexts.