Being "the Damned Foreigner": Affective National Sentiments and Racialization of Lithuanians in Iceland

Publisher's version (útgefin grein) 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, fur...

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Published in:Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Main Author: Loftsdóttir, Kristín
Other Authors: Félags og mannvísindadeild (HÍ), Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (UI), Félagsvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Social Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2017
Subjects:
Kynþáttafordómar
Vinnumarkaður
Hvítleiki
Litháen
Lithuania
Racism
Whiteness
Crisis
Affect
Iceland
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1235
https://doi.org/10.1515/njmr-2017-0012
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Summary:Publisher's version (útgefin grein) 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. The funding for this project was received from Rannís - The Icelandic Center for Resarch (130426-051). The finalizing of the article took place within the Project of Excellence funded by Rannís in 2016 (163350-051). Peer Reviewed

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