Being “The Damned Foreigner”: Affective National Sentiments and Racialization of Lithuanians in Iceland

The discussion draws from recent writing on the meaning of ‘whiteness’ in the Nordic countries, emphasizing the importance to understand racialization in different localities. Racism is entangled with affective meanings related to discourse of the nation, furthermore, as shaped by global discourses...

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Published in:Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Main Author: Loftsdóttir, Kristín
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Helsinki University Press 2017
Subjects:
Lithuania
Racism
Whiteness
Crisis
Affect
Iceland
Online Access:https://journal-njmr.org/jms/article/view/221
https://doi.org/10.1515/njmr-2017-0012
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spelling ftjnjmr:oai:ojs.journal-njmr.org:article/221 2023-05-15T16:43:18+02:00 Being “The Damned Foreigner”: Affective National Sentiments and Racialization of Lithuanians in Iceland Loftsdóttir, Kristín 2017-06-27 application/pdf https://journal-njmr.org/jms/article/view/221 https://doi.org/10.1515/njmr-2017-0012 eng eng Helsinki University Press https://journal-njmr.org/jms/article/view/221/216 10.1515/njmr-2017-0012 https://journal-njmr.org/jms/article/view/221 doi:10.1515/njmr-2017-0012 Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access). CC-BY-NC-ND Nordic Journal of Migration Research; Vol 7, No 2 (2017); 70-78 1799-649X Lithuania Racism Whiteness Crisis Affect info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 ftjnjmr https://doi.org/10.1515/njmr-2017-0012 2022-06-16T18:16:58Z The discussion draws from recent writing on the meaning of ‘whiteness’ in the Nordic countries, emphasizing the importance to understand racialization in different localities. Racism is entangled with affective meanings related to discourse of the nation, furthermore, as shaped by global discourses and class. The discussion exemplifies this in the context of migrants from Lithuania in Iceland, demonstrating how they become racialized in Iceland during the boom period in the early 2000s. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Nordic Journal of Migration Research Nordic Journal of Migration Research 7 2 70
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Racism
Whiteness
Crisis
Affect
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Racism
Whiteness
Crisis
Affect
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Being “The Damned Foreigner”: Affective National Sentiments and Racialization of Lithuanians in Iceland
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Racism
Whiteness
Crisis
Affect
description The discussion draws from recent writing on the meaning of ‘whiteness’ in the Nordic countries, emphasizing the importance to understand racialization in different localities. Racism is entangled with affective meanings related to discourse of the nation, furthermore, as shaped by global discourses and class. The discussion exemplifies this in the context of migrants from Lithuania in Iceland, demonstrating how they become racialized in Iceland during the boom period in the early 2000s.
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