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From colonial subjects to Black nations: racializing the Caribbean within global Blackness Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Jamella N. Gow
This article traces how Caribbean nations become Black by virtue of their relationship to colonialism, capitalism and their linkages with race. First, it outlines how colonization linked race, labo...
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Negotiating one’s own belonging: envisaging the Japanese (Im)migratory stratification through immigrant-origin youths’ narratives Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Giulia Dugar
This article contributes to delineating the concept of migratory stratification, newly introduced in this Special Issue, by exploring the Japanese immigration experience. Despite receiving little a...
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Between commodification and racial capital: an autoethnography exploring whiteness in higher education in Japan Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Kako Koshino
This article examines how individuals may play a role – inadvertently or intentionally – in negating white privilege by critically examining the conflict-avoidance approach employed by individuals ...
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Contesting integration discourses: migrant organizations and epistemic resistance in northern Norway Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Contributing to critical migration studies, this article explores how leaders of migrant organizations in northern Norway contest integration discourses – and subsequent expectations and implicatio...
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Beyond physical and representational violence: the violence of Black children’s invisibility in public spaces Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Neal A. Lester, Elizabeth McNeil
George Floyd’s May 2020 murder by police underscored the interconnectedness of violence, systemic racism, and white supremacy in the US. This essay explores violence against Black children as an hi...
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Negotiating identities. On identity politics and deliberation Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Monika Mokre
The rights of discriminated ethnic groups and migrants has become an increasingly relevant factor in politics. A frequent claim here is that only discriminated groups can speak about their discrimi...
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How different opinions in Black Lives Matter (BLM) regarding the notion of ally shed light on social movement and ally studies Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Yannicke de Stexhe
‘Black Lives Matter’ (BLM) is a conflict about central societal norms, embodied by activities and social actors . Those actors share a common vision but differ on some points. Combining several kin...
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The BBC, public intellectuals, and the making of Five Views of Multi-Racial Britain Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Karim Murji
This article retrieves and assesses a significant moment of public engagement on race and racism in Britain in the 1970s. Known as Five Views of Multi-Racial Britain it linked the national broadcas...
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Being anti-racist as ceremonial journey: from and within reflective learning stories Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Jebunnessa Chapola
This paper explores the concept of being anti-racist as a ceremonial journey, using anti-racist reflective learning as its research framework. It examines my transformative journey as a racialized ...
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#SouthAsians4BlackLives: racial positionality in digital allyship and the prospects for cross-racial solidarity for racial justice in the USA Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Bindi V. Shah, Leslie Carr
The presence of multiple racial groups was a key feature of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in 2020. This study investigates racial positionalities embedded in expressions of digital allyship wit...
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Racism without ‘race’: colorblindness, blackness and everyday racism in contemporary Germany Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Daniel Williams
Germany does not officially use or recognize racial categories. Despite this absence, everyday racism is a common experience for Black Germans and others viewed as non-European. Drawing on intervie...
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The socioeconomics of Sikh American identity Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Diditi Mitra
I argue socioeconomic divisions among Sikh immigrants from India mediate the lived experiences of being non-white Sikh immigrants and influenced Sikh American identity formation. Semi-structured in...
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Multiraciality & Racialized Politics in the United States Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Christine M. Capili
In the United States, political ideology and political party affiliation provide important indicators of multiracial individuals’ place in the historic racial order. I ask the following research qu...
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‘Keeping two cultures together’: the binary construction of belonging in narratives of professionals on children’s cultural identity Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Sara Amadasi, Chiara Ballestri
This paper analyses interviews with Italian education professionals collected in the context of a European research project on the participation of children with a migration background, aiming to u...
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FGM and genital cutting across borders: cultural biases in the contestation of global human rights Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Debra L. DeLaet
Global norms developed within the United Nations system have constructed female genital mutilation (FGM) exclusively as a set of non-Western practices. Consistent with these global norms, Western c...
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Inquisitive racialization or race after secularization: a critical phenomenological approach Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Yolande Jansen, Marieke Naomi van der Steen
In this article, we develop the notion of ‘inquisitive racialisation’, to elaborate a critical phenomenological perspective on how the expectation that religion should be privatized and/or made inv...
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Producing labour stratification: how migration policies affect the working, living and housing conditions of migrant farmworkers Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Giuliana Sanò
Based on a long-term investigation of migrant farmworkers within the Sicilian agricultural districts, this paper aims to use the lens of migratory stratification to scrutinize the various changes t...
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Civic identity: media, belonging, & Latiné youth in the 2020 US presidential election Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Rebecca M. Callahan, Julieta Rico, Kathryn M. Obenchain, Claudia Ochoa, Angeles De Santos-Quezada
We explore how Latiné immigrant-origin youth used and made sense of media to enact their civic identities during the 2020 US presidential election cycle. In a polarized national context, this proje...
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Islamophobia, racial discrimination law, and the question of self-identification Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Mareike Riedel
The racialization of religion, particularly in the context of Islamophobia, challenges understandings of race in discrimination law. Legal authorities from common law jurisdictions, such as Austral...
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Music and political identity salience in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Emaeyak P. Sylvanus, Felicia N. Ezeugwu
This article addresses the nexus between musical taste and political identity salience, and how (if at all) that informs citizens’ own perception and performance of national (cultural) identity in ...
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Serving diaspora in the homeland: Korean American culinary entrepreneurs in Seoul’s food and beverage industry Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Stephen Cho Suh, Brian Woohyun Kim
This study examines the culinary entrepreneurship of Korean American ‘returnees’ in Seoul’s food and beverage industry, paying special attention to the identitarian and meaning-making impetuses and...
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Predatory fandom and autoimmune community – Polish football fandom in the search for a pure homeland Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 Radosław Kossakowski, Przemysław Nosal, Wojciech Woźniak
One of the crucial aspects of football fans’ identity is their antagonistic attitude towards rivals and real or imagined enemies and threats. This article investigates Polish football fans’ antagon...
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The migratory crossroads of Alte Ceccato: an emblematic case of migratory stratification Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Andrea Calabretta, Francesco Della Puppa, Giulia Storato
Italy acts as a migratory crossroads in which emigration, immigration, and internal migration continuously overlap. These processes have affected not only large cities, but also small towns such as...
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‘My multiple cultural backgrounds are pulling me in all directions with my identity’: Asian and Latino Canadian youth experiences of cultural identity Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Luz Maria Vazquez, Nazilla Khanlou, Fernando Nunes, Attia Khan, Lisa Seto Nielsen
Identity, diversity, and inclusion are constantly being reshaped in the face of global migration and resettlement. New research is needed that examines youth identities. In this article, we analyse...
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Islamophobia as an affective field: death and elimination Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Nadiya N. Ali, Arij Elmi, Dahab Ibrahim
Twenty young adults attended an arts-based workshop in Toronto, Canada and responded to the question of ‘what does Islamophobia feel like?’ in order to document their lived reality of everyday Isla...
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Good Muslims, good citizens? An intersectional approach to Muslims’ everyday (hidden) resistance tactics in Belgium Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Samira Azabar
This paper explores Muslim participants’ political endeavours, aiming to tackle their marginalization in a secular racialized environment. Drawing on critical race scholarship (Du Bois), resistance...
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Interplay between representing ‘others’ and experiencing peripherality: ethnographic study in a Swiss valley Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Emmanuel Charmillot
This article explores how the lived and situated peripherality of Val-de-Travers, a Swiss valley located on the border with France, articulates with experiences and representations of difference. I...
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Toppling statues and making space: prospects for anti-racist cultural activism Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-28 Meghan Tinsley, Chloe Peacock, Sadia Habib, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, Gary Younge
Statues have long been recognized as impositions of a particular past that legitimize a power-laden present. Consequently, toppling statues, and engaging with the space they once occupied, opens up...
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Reflections on race, class and multicultural entanglements Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Amit Singh
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2024)
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Boxing clever: exercising with ethnicity, ethics and embodied ethnography Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Daniel Burdsey
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2024)
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Fighting identity and enchanting culture: reflections on working-class conviviality Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Sivamohan Valluvan
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2024)
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Fighting Identity: reflections on its contribution to conviviality and ethnography Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Solinda Morgillo
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2024)
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(Doing) belonging as technology of power: how the principle of ‘gender equality’ governs membership in Swiss society Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Anne Kristol, Joanna Menet, Carolin Fischer, Janine Dahinden
This paper analyses how the principle of gender equality informs politics of belonging in Switzerland. We propose to conceptualize ‘doing belonging’ as a technology of power and we examine how acto...
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The racial and ethnic socialisation continuum: racial oppression and resistance in Latinx families Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Maria D. Dueñas
Research on racial and ethnic socialisation of Latinxs has focused on ethnic socialisation while under-examining the racial discourses and ideologies that Latinxs use when discussing racial and eth...
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Rethinking critical thinking, diversity and Indigenous awareness from a Blackfoot perspective Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Gabrielle Lindstrom
Through this article, I critique the notion of critical thinking as it is mobilized in our education systems as an entry point for challenging the equity, diversity and inclusion lens that typifies...
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Daffawi: self-Orientalism and identity work among Palestinians in Israel Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Amalia Sa’ar, Shihab Idrees
This ethnographic paper explores attitudes and perceptions of Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI) regarding Palestinians from the West Bank (PWB). It focuses on the semantic complex of ḍaffāwi (‘w...
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From disconnection to intersection: making race and religion at the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Juliette Galonnier
This article investigates how the categories of ‘race’ and ‘religion’ are concurrently produced in international arenas. The 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial ...
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Understanding racial equity in research with Indigenous Peoples: including anti-racism and decolonization approaches Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon, Deana Around Him
Colonization of Indigenous Peoples living in what is now called the U.S. and U.S. territories began over 500 years ago, yet colonization continues today and results in historical trauma and inequit...
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When counter-extremism ‘sticks’: the circulation of the Prevent Duty in the school space Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Shereen Fernandez
This article contributes to scholarship in Muslim geographies to show how the Prevent Duty is a racializing and securitizing policy, which exists in an already unequal school space. Through the con...
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‘De-dreading’ as collective agency Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Anjali Prabhu
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2024)
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Contesting the margins of coloniality: Māori adoptee identities in the context of Māori identity scholarship Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll, Denise Blake
Over the past two decades, understandings of Māori identity have been enriched through emphases on non-binary categorizations, processual ‘becoming’, and flexible ‘routes’ rather than rigid ‘roots’...
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Fear is the path to the dark side Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Matthew W. Hughey
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2024)
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The dread of dread Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 David Theo Goldberg
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2024)
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Criminalizing black solidarity: Dublin deportations, raids, and racial statecraft in southern Germany Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Aino Korvensyrjä
Intensive police raids targeted southern German asylum camps in 2018. The police accused black men of rioting against deportation enforcement, and local courts prosecuted numerous individuals. This...
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Affective control: the emotional life of (en)forcing mobility control in Europe Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Ioana Vrabiescu, Bridget Anderson
Current outcomes of immigration enforcement policies and apparatuses call for rethinking the ethics behind our understanding of community belonging, human rights and just society. The ethics at wor...
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The emotional governance of immigration controls Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Melanie Griffiths
Emotions produce the borders between the self and other. They are also constitutive of national border practices and politics. This article considers the ‘affective governance’ of the UK’s immigrat...
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Beyond the dreadesphere? Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Nasar Meer
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2024)
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Migrants away from the polls: explaining the absenteeism of people with sub-Saharan African origins in the 2022 French presidential elections Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Sergiu Mișcoiu, Bettina Mitru, Sergiu Gherghina
The electoral participation of migrants in the country of residence has been often investigated through the lenses of motivations, preferences, and consequences. The literature to date has paid lit...
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Producing whiteness through urban space: the socio-spatial construction of white identities in Amsterdam Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Rozemarijn Weyers
This article argues for an approach to the formation of whiteness that includes an explicit focus on urban neighbourhood spaces. Extending literature that mainly focuses on whiteness at the nationa...
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Queering trialectics among space, power, and the subject: spatial representations and practices of othered identities in Turkey Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Ece Yoltay
This article analyzes spatial configurations of biopower in Turkey, in other words, of the politics of ‘supra-identity’. In the multi-identity social structure of the country, the subjectification ...
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Storytelling amid the ‘dirty plates’ of the past Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Lawrie Balfour
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2024)
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The truth of two cities: Trieste, Rijeka and the interplay between nationalism and cosmopolitanism in cross-border regional Europe Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Christian Lamour
Nationalism structures the representation of identities in museums. However, museums are also places where cosmopolitanism can be circulated. The scope of the current article is to approach the int...
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Feeling excluded? Why ethnic minorities (do not) engage in participatory budgeting Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Sergiu Gherghina, Paul Tap, Ionut Traistaru
The increasing use of participatory budgeting (PB) around the world has led to analyses covering people’s attitudes towards the process, its empowering characteristics, and its transformational pot...
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Essentialism and intersectionality in the selection and recruitment of staff: the devaluation of migrant women’s skills in France and Italy Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Anne-Iris Romens, Francesca Alice Vianello
While skilled migration has become one of the most acceptable ways of entering Western European countries, the skills of migrant women with tertiary education continue to be undervalued in labour m...
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Caring for political memory: a response to my critics Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Mihaela Mihai
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2024)
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The displacement of the ‘hero elect’ by the ‘caring refusenik’ Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Andrew Schaap
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2024)
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Remembering is caring (or: what is complicitous memory?) Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Sakiru Adebayo
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2024)
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“We are here, but our hearts are in Haiti”: temporal and racialized emotive existences of ethnically identified Haitian Americans Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Vadricka Y. Etienne
This study argues that three racialized emotive existences – nostalgia, fear, and hope – mark ethnically identified Haitian Americans’ temporal and cultural narratives of Haiti. First, nostalgia hi...
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What sociologists learn from music: identity, music-making, and the sociological imagination Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Les Back
Sociologists very often have extra-curricular lives as musicians. This article explores the relationship between musical life and sociological identities. Through a range of examples from Howard Be...
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Blood, it’s in you to give, just don’t be an African: the Canadian blood system and the African Indefinite Deferral Policy, 1997 to 2018 Identities (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Nseya Mwamba, Korbla P. Puplampu
The Canadian health care system has been the site of a tense relationship between blood donation policies and African Canadians (read as Blacks). This article explores the basis of that strain, spe...