Naslov
Ethno-national Mobilization of Croat Immigrants in Vienna: Some Problems with an Undifferentiated Notion of the Politics of Belonging

Autori
Božić, Saša

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
The Politics of Belonging: Migrants and Minorities in Contemporary Europe

Urednik/ci
Geddes, Andrew ; Favell, Adrian

Izdavač
Ashgate Publishing

Grad
Aldershot

Godina
1999

Raspon stranica
139-155

ISBN
1-84014-177-8

Ključne riječi
politics of belonging, migration, mobilisation of migrants

Sažetak
Author starts his analysis with the claim that supposed normative and symbolic belonging which is usually applied to individuals, majority and minority groups of immigration societies becomes essencialised in the politics but also in the social sciences. Politics of belonging as a concept presupposes uniform reaction of immigrants to the processes such as forming and reshaping of social and ethnic boundaries. The implicit idea of uniform immigrant action is then widely generalised without clear empirical evidence. Author uses the example of Croat immigrants in Vienna to illustrate the complexity of immigrant ethnic mobilisation and intrinsic variety of migrant identities, ideologies and actions in the post-migratory period. He argues that undifferentiated application of concepts such as politics of belonging can jeopardise the validity of wider generalisations on migrant ethnic mobilisation.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Sociologija

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