Narrating Belonging in the Post-Yugoslav Context
The article questions the validity of the notion of multiple or shifting migrant identities. I argue that such usages of identity in some transnationalism and migration regime studies and in policymaking may serve to label migrants as different. What is ignored by such accounts is that belonging is...
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ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC
2011-01-01
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/10990 |
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| author | Mojca Pajnik |
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| description | The article questions the validity of the notion of multiple or shifting migrant identities. I argue that such usages of identity in some transnationalism and migration regime studies and in policymaking may serve to label migrants as different. What is ignored by such accounts is that belonging is not freefloating but is situated and contextually bounded, while making “positive” identitary claims may mask the actual structural inequalities. Alternative conceptualizations are explored in which I use the concept of narration and storytelling that better describes migrants’ contextualized realities. The theoretical argument is coupled with empirical research in which various types of belonging in the post-Yugoslav context are explored using biographical interviews with migrants who live in Slovenia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-afb0a76974e54a7fbadf40ba57e1d7842022-12-22T02:19:04ZengZRC SAZU, Založba ZRCDve Domovini0353-67771581-12122011-01-013416774Narrating Belonging in the Post-Yugoslav ContextMojca PajnikThe article questions the validity of the notion of multiple or shifting migrant identities. I argue that such usages of identity in some transnationalism and migration regime studies and in policymaking may serve to label migrants as different. What is ignored by such accounts is that belonging is not freefloating but is situated and contextually bounded, while making “positive” identitary claims may mask the actual structural inequalities. Alternative conceptualizations are explored in which I use the concept of narration and storytelling that better describes migrants’ contextualized realities. The theoretical argument is coupled with empirical research in which various types of belonging in the post-Yugoslav context are explored using biographical interviews with migrants who live in Slovenia.https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/10990identityhybrid identitymigrant belongingnarrationformer yugoslavia |
| spellingShingle | Mojca Pajnik Narrating Belonging in the Post-Yugoslav Context Dve Domovini identity hybrid identity migrant belonging narration former yugoslavia |
| title | Narrating Belonging in the Post-Yugoslav Context |
| title_full | Narrating Belonging in the Post-Yugoslav Context |
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| title_short | Narrating Belonging in the Post-Yugoslav Context |
| title_sort | narrating belonging in the post yugoslav context |
| topic | identity hybrid identity migrant belonging narration former yugoslavia |
| url | https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/10990 |
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