Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden [electronic resource] : Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth /
Eliassi, B.author.
Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden sheds light on the day-to-day strategies of accommodation and resistance that Kurdish youth use in the face exclusive narratives and structures of belonging and citizenship regimes in the Middle-East and Sweden.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Kurdish diaspora and the retreat of multictulturalism in Western Europe -- Kurdish identities and political struggle in the Middle East -- Theorizing belonging and citizenship in ethnically divided societies -- Historical injustices, uneven nationalisms and reproduction of ethnopolitical conflict in diaspora -- Unequal citizenship, home(land)s and strategies of dealing with ethnic discrimination in Sweden -- Orientalization of the Kurds and reproduction of colonial categorization by Kurdish youth in Sweden -- Conclusion : struggle for social justice and citizenship rights.
Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden sheds light on the day-to-day strategies of accommodation and resistance that Kurdish youth use in the face exclusive narratives and structures of belonging and citizenship regimes in the Middle-East and Sweden.
Middle East—Politics and government.
Ethnicity.
Political sociology.
Emigration and immigration.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Political science.
Middle Eastern Politics.
Ethnicity Studies.
Political Sociology.
Migration.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Political Science.