Title: Ethnicity, belonging and biography :
Authors: Rosenthal, Gabriele.; Bogner, Artur.
Date: 2009
Publisher: Lit,
Physical description: 405 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: Introduction: ethnicity, biography and options of belonging -- Politics of belonging & ethnic conflicts -- Peace process in the wake of Ghana's northern conflict -- Democratization and resurgence of ethnic politics in Ghana, 1992-2006 -- Ethnicity as participation and belonging -- Question of belonging: networks & biographical work -- Identity, the sense of belonging and biographical closure -- Immigrants' memory work concerning the Shoah and anti-Semitism in Israel and Germany -- Fragmented collective memory and negative belarusian identity -- Interrelation between social mobility and the sense of collective belonging. Generation of social climbers in the Soviet Union goes to Germany -- Constructing ethnicity: elite biographies and funerals in Ghana -- Emerging transnational migrant networks in eastern Europe: chinese community in Bucharest post-1989 -- Transnational biographies and intersectionality -- Intersectionality, belonging and translocational positionality -- De/Constructing difference: biographical perspective on constructions of ethnicity as transnational positionality -- Transforming transnational biographical memories: adult accounts of 'non-normative' serial migrant childhoods -- Border Skirmishes and the question of belonging -- Intergenerational transmission -- Effect of the very distant past on migrants -- Processes on intergenerational transmission of citizenship and belonging among immigrant families in Switzerland -- Shifting balances of power and changing constructions of ethnic belonging: three generation families in Germany with ethnic german members from the Soviet Union -- Educational success and intergenerational transmission: educational advancement among migrants of turkish descent in Germany -- Migrant children in city space: assimilation to multicultural society.
Notes: International conference proceedings. Series entry missing in the book.
Subject headings (LCSH): Biography--Congresses.; Collective memory--Congresses.; Ethnic conflict--Congresses.; Ethnicity--Congresses.; Multiculturalism--Congresses.