IF 1.4 2区社会学

Ethnicities Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1177/14687968241265963

Birendra Bhujel, Sweta Sinha

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Forgotten responsibilities? Nordic truth commissions, Sámi history, and the difficulty of transnational perspectives on historical responsibility 被遗忘的责任？北欧真相委员会、萨米历史和历史责任跨国视角的难题

IF 1.4 2区社会学

Ethnicities Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1177/14687968241266251

Otso Kortekangas, Natan Elgabsi, Malin Arvidsson

{"title":"Forgotten responsibilities? Nordic truth commissions, Sámi history, and the difficulty of transnational perspectives on historical responsibility","authors":"Otso Kortekangas, Natan Elgabsi, Malin Arvidsson","doi":"10.1177/14687968241266251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968241266251","url":null,"abstract":"The article studies the Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish truth commissions dealing with state-Sámi (an indigenous population living in northern Scandinavia, Finland and north-western Russia) relations through the concept of transnational historical justice. The fact that three separate commissions are studying the history of the Sámi has been criticized by earlier researchers, but never from the perspective of intergenerational, and more specifically historical justice. Our study of the mandate documents and the report of the Norwegian commission (the only one published in the time of writing of this article) points to constructive ways forward that could acknowledge and better embrace the transnational character of Sámi history, especially in terms of historical justice. We also study in what way the Norwegian commission worked within and stretched the framework set by the mandate document. Our conclusion is that the lack of transnationalism in the mandate and work of the commissions leads to historical Sámi individuals and groups being forgotten. These are historical groups and individuals whose existence does not fit in neatly in the presentist perspective of the commissions, projecting the current nation state borders back in time. For this reason, historical justice toward these groups is also a forgotten issue in the mandate and work of the commissions.","PeriodicalId":47512,"journal":{"name":"Ethnicities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141807677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Multicultural conversations: The nature and future of culture, identity and nationalism 多元文化对话：文化、身份和民族主义的性质与未来

IF 1.4 2区社会学

Ethnicities Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1177/14687968241264814

T. Modood, B. Parekh, Colin Tyler, Varun Uberoi, James Connelly

{"title":"Multicultural conversations: The nature and future of culture, identity and nationalism","authors":"T. Modood, B. Parekh, Colin Tyler, Varun Uberoi, James Connelly","doi":"10.1177/14687968241264814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968241264814","url":null,"abstract":"Despite well-known criticism of multiculturalism in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Australia, India and elsewhere since 9/11, such policies have proliferated ( Banting and Kymlicka, 2013 ; Mathieu, 2018 ) and the Canadian and Australian policies of multiculturalism have since celebrated their 50th birthdays. Political theories of multiculturalism have proliferated in this period too ( Lenard, 2022 ; Modood, 2007/2013 ; Patten, 2014 ; Parekh, 2006 , 2019 ; Phillips, 2007 ; Tyler, 2011 ). Schools of multiculturalist thought have been identified ( Levey, 2019 ; Uberoi and Modood, 2019 ), as have contextual methods in the political theory and normative sociology of multiculturalism ( Modood, 2020 ; Modood and Thompson, 2018 ). New historical inquiries into the origins of the political thought of multiculturalism have begun ( Tyler, 2017 ; Uberoi, 2021 ) and the ideas of multiculturalists have been altered to defend majority rights ( Koopmans and Orgad, 2022 ). Current and former politicians continue to debate its merits ( Braverman, 2023 ; Denham, 2023 ). Policies of multiculturalism and multiculturalist ideas have thus proved more resilient than many had thought. In the following conversation chaired by James Connelly, which took place on 20 June 2023, Bhikhu Parekh, Tariq Modood, Varun Uberoi, and Colin Tyler discuss the history, varied natures, and future of the contested multiculturalist ideas of “culture,” “identity” and “nationalism”.","PeriodicalId":47512,"journal":{"name":"Ethnicities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141808577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Discrimination and rights in German naturalization policy 德国入籍政策中的歧视与权利

IF 1.3 2区社会学

Ethnicities Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/14687968241257708

Claus Hofhansel

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Who counts? Anti-antisemitism and the racial politics of emotion 谁算数？反犹太主义与情感的种族政治

IF 1.3 2区社会学

Ethnicities Pub Date : 2024-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/14687968241256974

Adam Sutcliffe

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Rituals of nonbelonging and their emotional toll: Encounters with the orthodox Jewish weddings and burials among generation 1.5 former Soviet Union immigrants in Israel 非归属仪式及其情感代价：以色列 1.5 代前苏联移民与正统犹太教婚礼和葬礼的邂逅

IF 1.3 2区社会学

Ethnicities Pub Date : 2024-05-21 DOI: 10.1177/14687968241256829

Anna Prashizky

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Ya no creemos en eso: Ideological impacts, racialized labor, and COVID-19 in the San Gabriel Valley restaurant industry Ya no creemos en eso：圣盖博谷餐饮业的意识形态影响、种族化劳工和 COVID-19

IF 1.3 2区社会学

Ethnicities Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1177/14687968241248189

Alejandro Prado

{"title":"Ya no creemos en eso: Ideological impacts, racialized labor, and COVID-19 in the San Gabriel Valley restaurant industry","authors":"Alejandro Prado","doi":"10.1177/14687968241248189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968241248189","url":null,"abstract":"The San Gabriel Valley is described in academic and popular discussions as an ethnoburb, given its significant Chinese and Asian diasporic population which impacts this region’s cultural, political, and economic composition. The culinary industry, specifically, has been central in capturing and marketing the authentic cultural appearance of this region. Nonetheless, while politics of authenticity drive this region the aim of this article is to uncover the essence of the San Gabriel Valley culinary industry, one that is inherently dependent on Latinx working-class immigrant labor. Specifically, in this project, I study how the COVID-19 pandemic uniquely impacted the Latinx immigrant restaurant workers in this region’s Chinese restaurants. Data collected comes from semi-structured interviews with Latinx immigrant restaurant workers and participant observation conducted with the Restaurant Opportunity Center-Los Angeles. Based on this research, I describe the racialized labor dimensions within the San Gabriel Valley restaurants and the inherent distrust of government aid by Latinx workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anchored in a critical political and economic framework, I argue for the expansion of the ethnoburb framework to center the ideological dimension of capitalism given that exploitation and oppression are central to the popularity of Los Angeles restaurants in general and to those in the San Gabriel Valley in particular. This institutionalized anti-immigrant violence facilitates low pay and precarious employment within the restaurants and the deliberate decisions by workers to avoid seeking government aid given a history of immigrant repression. Finally, this article has applications for nonprofit and government entities responsible for dispersing resources for the Latinx immigrant working class in the service sector and uncovering the labor realities within the San Gabriel Valley.","PeriodicalId":47512,"journal":{"name":"Ethnicities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140675318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Being (un)settled as citizens and community: post-2004 Polish migrants, Brexit and the legacy of the Parekh report 作为公民和社区（未）定居：2004 年后波兰移民、英国脱欧和帕雷赫报告的遗产

IF 1.3 2区社会学

Ethnicities Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1177/14687968241247569

Zinovijus Ciupijus

{"title":"Being (un)settled as citizens and community: post-2004 Polish migrants, Brexit and the legacy of the Parekh report","authors":"Zinovijus Ciupijus","doi":"10.1177/14687968241247569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968241247569","url":null,"abstract":"This article applies the concept of Britain as a community of citizens and a community of communities to the analysis of post-2004 Polish migrants. This concept received its clearest articulation in the 2000 report on The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain chaired by Bhikhu Parekh, which constituted a hallmark of the national debate on multiculturalism. The report is used as an intellectual inspiration to see post-2004 Poles not just as white labour migrants to the UK, but as citizens and community within the multi-ethnic Britain envisaged by Parekh and his co-authors. The discussion draws on a set of qualitative data gathered in the Northern English district of Wakefield following the Brexit vote. The analysis reveals a high degree of local embeddedness of Polish migrants both as citizens and community, which involves civil relations across ethnic lines and the sense of shared commitment. This inclusion is however undermined by the pattern of paid employment, language difficulties and arbitrariness of the Brexit state, which interviewees experienced both as a community and as individual citizens. While following the dialectical frames set by the report, this article expands notions of the boundary of multi-ethnic Britain by putting this ethnic and post-EU enlargement group within its map.","PeriodicalId":47512,"journal":{"name":"Ethnicities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140690783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unraveling the white working-class conundrum: A closer look at its utility and pitfalls 破解白人工人阶级难题：细看其效用和陷阱

IF 1.3 2区社会学

Ethnicities Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/14687968241240787

Sam Taylor Hill

{"title":"Unraveling the white working-class conundrum: A closer look at its utility and pitfalls","authors":"Sam Taylor Hill","doi":"10.1177/14687968241240787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968241240787","url":null,"abstract":"The term “white working-class” has emerged as a focal point in recent discourse, igniting fervent debates around its usage and purpose. Critics like Gillborn have contended that the term, often wielded by right-leaning academics and commentators, artificially segregates the working-class. In this article I seek to understand this, and other criticisms raised in relation to the rise of populism, which have been aimed at the usage and purpose of the term “white working-class”. By weighing these criticisms against one another and acknowledging the intersectionality inherent in class formation, I propose a more specific and limited application of the term that I think better aligns with scholarly pursuits and helps to mitigate some of these critics core concerns around the term’s overgeneralisation in-particular. Thus, while I also acknowledge that the term “white working-class” ignites debate, it can also unveil intricate social realities, as evidence from Skeggs and Reay suggest. It must ultimately be employed judiciously to avoid sidelining the struggles of other marginalised groups within the class. Balancing its use with caution is essential to harness its potential without undermining the broader context of class-based issues that affect individuals from all backgrounds.","PeriodicalId":47512,"journal":{"name":"Ethnicities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140232475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Doing style for Saraswati Puja: Girlhood, Class, and Community Identity among Muslim girls in Assam 为 Saraswati Puja 做造型：阿萨姆穆斯林女孩的女孩身份、阶级和社区认同

IF 1.3 2区社会学

Ethnicities Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI: 10.1177/14687968241229749

Nirmali Goswami, Navarupa Bhuyan

{"title":"Doing style for Saraswati Puja: Girlhood, Class, and Community Identity among Muslim girls in Assam","authors":"Nirmali Goswami, Navarupa Bhuyan","doi":"10.1177/14687968241229749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968241229749","url":null,"abstract":"Saraswati Puja, a celebration of the Hindu goddess of learning, is organised by youth clubs and educational institutions in eastern India. We draw on debates on girlhood, codes of respectable femininity in a neoliberal world, and how these play out for Muslim girls in the school context. These ideas frame our analysis of the dressing up practice among Muslim girls in a government school. We argue that the middle-class and ethnicised ideals of girlhood are amplified and reconfigured by the popular discourses on Saraswati Puja and add to the tensions over the appropriate code of dressing within the context of Puja at school. While the reality of girls’ lives is being shaped in novel ways, the Muslim girls engagement with the ideals of ‘respectable femininity’ through varied modes of ‘doing style’ put them under contrary pressures in public places like school. In such a scenario, their accounts of dressing up and participating in this event serve as a vantage point to understand how girlhood is being construed and experienced from varied positions of class, caste, age, and community. These accounts highlight Muslim girls’ engagement with the codes of femininity in the majoritarian cultural universe of a school.","PeriodicalId":47512,"journal":{"name":"Ethnicities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139598541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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