“You are the Greenlandic one”. Saisir la place de la région d’origine dans la production de l’autochtonie chez les étudiant·e·s groenlandais·e·s au Danemark

• Published in: Espace populations sociétés
• Main Author: Marine Duc
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 2020
• Subjects: indigeneity; stigmatization; territorial stigma; nation; racialization; students; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation; G; Social sciences (General); H1-99; Greenland; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/eps.9903; https://doaj.org/article/19231ef2d54c4d55b581dfccb10c98f0

Relying on daily minorization experiences of students from Greenland studying in Denmark, I will examine the way the placing of a territorial stigma and its negotiation is taking part in the making of a tensioning indigeneity. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, showing how a chromatic national order is daily performed between Denmark and Greenland through negative views of the students’ home region, contributing to racialization processes. Second, I will highlight the differential of individual resources in responding to the stigmatization. Consequently, I stress that it is necessary to not take the category « indigenous peoples » as given, but at the contrary, to think indigeneity as a dynamic social location, depending on contexts, class, race, and gender parameters, but also on personal trajectories of individuals.