ABSTRACT

This article examines ‘de-stigmatisation strategies’ of Turkish-Dutch youth. Our in-depth interviews and observations revealed three strategies to negotiate belonging in the Netherlands, particularly to resist dominant Dutch characterisations of Turks and Muslims as backwards, disloyal and unintegrated: (1) confronting by asserting their right to cultural distinctiveness, (2) convincing by relocating cultural achievements in their heritage, and (3) contextualising: embracing ideological and political positions calibrated to country-specific contexts. We found that students’ de-stigmatisation strategies – which are learnt, contested and first performed within secure in-group settings – mobilise multiple, context-dependent identifications. Although students are often critical of the assumptions embedded in Dutch nativist discourse, their strategies also partly reproduce them, showing the pervasiveness of nativism within current political debates on culture, identity, belonging and nationality.

摘要

本文考察了土耳其-荷兰青年的“去污名化策略”。我们的深入访谈和观察揭示了三种谈判在荷兰归属感的策略，特别是为了抵制荷兰将土耳其人和穆斯林占主导地位的特征描述为落后、不忠诚和不整合：（1）通过主张他们的文化独特性权利来对抗，（2）令人信服通过重新定位其遗产中的文化成就，以及 (3)将：接受根据国家特定情况校准的意识形态和政治立场。我们发现学生的去污名化策略——在安全的团体环境中学习、竞争和首先执行——调动了多种、依赖于上下文的认同。尽管学生们经常批评荷兰本土主义话语中的假设，但他们的策略也部分地复制了这些假设，显示了本土主义在当前关于文化、身份、归属和国籍的政治辩论中的普遍性。