Immigration societies and the question of ‘the national’

Antonsich, Marco; Matejskova, Tatiana

doi:10.1177/1468796815577705

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“…A transformative potential, which comes to the fore through the longstanding tensions between (a) nation and diversity and (b) nation and neighbourhood (local). On the former, the present study empirically substantiates that notions of nation and diversity as mutually exclusive are misguided at best (Fox, 2017;Kymlicka, 2015;Matejskova & Antonsich, 2015). On the latter, it argues the importance of including the nation as part of analysis in neighbourhood research, rather than-as tends to be the case presently-treating the nation as a taken for granted background expectancy, without explicitly addressing it.…”

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“…Taken together, insights from the examples of Katrine and Sindre show that, despite perceiving migration‐related diversity as an integral part of the nation (Amin, ; Antonsich & Matejskova, ), parents seek to balance ideals for the future with what they believe is in the best interests of their children in the present. In doing so with respect to decisions about where the socialisation of their children will take place, they (re)produce a nation based on homogeneity.…”

Section: Nation and Diversity As Contradictory And Intertwinedmentioning

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“…How contemporary research on the nation and on diversity tend to engage-or disengage-with each other contributes to upholding the mistaken notion that nation and diversity are mutually exclusive (Antonsich, 2018;Matejskova & Antonsich, 2015). Indeed, contemporary research on the nation is to a large extent preoccupied with how nationalism can create unity out of diversity.…”

Section: Nation Diversity and Everyday Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The latter perspective recognises all cultures and people as part of a diverse whole, living together, although not always harmoniously. Indeed, disagreement and difference are seen as integral to living together in diversity (Amin, 2012;Antonsich & Matejskova, 2015;Hearn & Antonsich, 2018).…”

Section: Nation Diversity and Everyday Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most of the research participants express notions of an imagined community in the future where nation and diversity are intertwined and STRØMSØ 7 of 12 not contradictory. But living together in diversity in the present is not frictionless (Amin, 2012;Antonsich & Matejskova, 2015;Hearn & Antonsich, 2018). Not only is there friction but it is also multifaceted.…”

Section: Friction Between Present and Future Notions Of An Imaginedmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Parents' reflections on choice of neighbourhood and their transformative potential for future conceptualisations of the nation

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This article contends that parents' reflections on choice of neighbourhood provide insights into a transformative potential for future conceptualisations of the nation. Built on 30 interviews in Oslo, Norway, this study shows that when choosing a neighbourhood for where their children will grow up, parents create the spatial and social frame of the everyday life within which their children will be socialised—of which socialisation into the nation is one element. Through their sociospatial preferences, one elicits their notions on who belongs where not only in the neighbourhoods of Oslo but also to the nation. Balancing ideals and values both for their children and for themselves, the parents draw on multiple temporalities—past, present, and future—of an imagined community, which in turn offer evidence that how nation and diversity coexist, changes with time. A change, where diversity is envisioned as an integral part of the nation, as both contradictory and intertwined.

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This chapter explores the development of Nordic socio-spatial theories on nation, nationalism, and national identities. We begin by providing an overview of the body of theoretical work on nation by Nordic scholars, with attention to key authors, their main theoretical positions, and methodological orientations. We intend to show how the research area emerged by the early 1990s as a minor theme in Nordic human geography, but then developed and intensified in the subsequent decades, along with the rise of the subfield of political geography in some Nordic countries and Finland in particular. We also describe how the research field transformed in the 2000s, along with the growing interest in globalization and transnationalization. After this we move into reflections on nation and nationalism arising from our own research trajectories, and how they link with and build on the Nordic theoretical traditions. This discussion will situate our chapter both through our own work as Nordic scholars, and through empirical illustrations from Finland and Norway. We conclude by outlining current challenges and new horizons in Nordic theoretical work on nation and nationalism.

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Migrant Perspectives on External Voting

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This chapter explores migrants’ perspectives on voting in country-of-origin elections and on participation in democratic politics in countries of origin in Central and East Europe. We build on 80 semi-structured interviews with migrants from Poland and Romania, living in Barcelona, Spain, and Oslo, Norway. The chapter offers an analysis of their thoughts on and experiences of practicing external voting, as well as choosing not to cast a ballot in any given election. The first part explores the reasons why migrants do—or do not—vote “back home,” offering illustrations from our data, focusing on motivations for external voting, practicalities that impede or facilitate external voting, and discussing intersecting scales of motivation. These discussions are set within the context of migrants’ broader motivations to engage in politics transnationally, and intimately connected with their reflections on the principled question of the democratic legitimacy of external voting. The second part of the chapter extends the view from external voting to migrants’ own perspectives on transnational political engagement, including but not limited to external voting, as set within often transnational lifeworlds affected by both “here” and “there” in varying ways.

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Immigration societies and the question of ‘the national’

Abstract: Citation: ANTONSICH, M. and MATEJSKOVA, T., 2015. Immigration societies and the question of`the National'. Ethnicities, 15(4), pp.495-508.

Cited by 37 publications

References 63 publications

Parents' reflections on choice of neighbourhood and their transformative potential for future conceptualisations of the nation

Parents' reflections on choice of neighbourhood and their transformative potential for future conceptualisations of the nation

Nordic Geographies of Nation and Nationhood

Migrant Perspectives on External Voting

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