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Titel

Ethnicity, belonging and biography: Ethnographical and biographical perspectives

Ort / Verlag

Berlin: Lit Verl

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "The subjects of ethnicity and collective belonging have enjoyed high priority on the agenda of social science research over the last 20 years. Nevertheless there is need (and considerable scope) for further mutual adjustment and refinement of theoretical concepts, substantive empirical discoveries and research techniques. This volume offers a contribution to such efforts by leading practitioners of qualitative research with backgrounds in diverse disciplines. Their research focuses on the perspectives and biographical experiences of concrete 'historical' actors within the contexts of migration, cultural diversity and social conflicts." (author's abstract). Contents: Dan and Tammy Bar-On interviewed by Gabriele Rosenthal and Artur Bogner (27-39); Artur Bogner: The Peace Process in the Wake of Ghana's Northern Conflict: Its Course and Conditions for Success (41-62); Steve Tonah: Democratization and the Resurgence of Ethnic Politics in Ghana, 1992-2006 (63-82); Ursula Apitzsch: Ethnicity as Participation and Belonging (83-96); Kaja Kazmierska: Identity, the sense of belonging and biographical closure (99-120); Edna Lomsky-Feder, Tamar Rapoport, Yvonne Schütze: Immigrants' Memory Work concerning the Shoah and anti-Semitism in Israel and Germany (121-143); Natalia Mamul: Fragmented collective memory and negative Belarusian identity (145-159); Irina Fefler, Niklas Radenbach: The Interrelation between Social Mobility and the Sense of Collective Belonging. A Generation of Social Climbers in the Soviet Union goes to Germany (161-179); Carola Lentz: Constructing ethnicity: elite biographies and funerals in Ghana (181-202); Rixta Wundrak: Emerging transnational migrant networks in Eastern Europe: The Chinese community in Bucharest post-1989 (203-225); Floya Anthias: Intersectionality, belonging and translocational positionality: thinking about transnational identities (229-249); Minna-Kristiina Ruokonen-Engler: De/Constructing Difference: A Biographical Perspective on Constructions of Ethnicity as Transnational Positionality (251-265); Ann Phoenix: Transforming transnational biographical memories: Adult accounts of 'non-normative' serial migrant childhoods (267-284); Kathy Davis, Lorraine Nencel: Border Skirmishes and the Question of Belonging. An autoethnographical account of everyday practices of exclusion in the Netherlands (285-302); Viola Stephan: The Effect of the Very Distant Past on Migrants: Armenian Families in Germany (305-324); Anne Juhasz: Processes of intergenerational transmission of citizenship and belonging among immigrant families in Switzerland (325-346); Gabriele Rosenthal, Viola Stephan: Shifting balances of power and changing constructions of ethnic belonging: Three-generation families in Germany with ethnic German members from the former Soviet Union (347-369); Ebru Tepecik: Educational Success and intergenerational Transmission: Educational Advancement among Migrants of Turkish Descent in Germany (371-385); Victoria Semenova: Migrant Children in City Space: Assimilation to Multicultural Society (387-397).