"I feel Danish but...": a case study on national identity formation and ambivalence
Non-western minorities in Europe, one can argue, are experiencing particularly vulnerable processes of subjectification and identification. They are often caught between double processes of inclusion/exclusion, integration/segregation or identification/estrangement. This article explores some of the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2013-10-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | http://www.geogr-helv.net/68/213/2013/gh-68-213-2013.pdf |
| Summary: | Non-western minorities in Europe, one can argue, are experiencing
particularly vulnerable processes of subjectification and identification.
They are often caught between double processes of inclusion/exclusion,
integration/segregation or identification/estrangement. This article
explores some of the complex and ambiguous processes of identification
within this group, in connection with development of the spatial identity of
Danishness. It starts with a short theoretical pinning down of the figure of
"the stranger'' working as a basis for the empirical analysis. Organised in
three sections, each interpreting a specific narrative of identification,
the analysis subsequently explores processes and problems of identity
formation within a minority group increasingly designated as "strangers''
within the Danish nation state. The article concludes on the different ways
in which uncertainty and ambivalence infiltrate the identity formation. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |