Ethnic identification need not be an expression of Otherness

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Publication date 28-11-2014
Publisher Leiden Anthropology Blog
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract Belonging is a contested issue in the Netherlands. Those who define their identity in ethnic terms are treated with distrust. Why do individuals at times define themselves as ‘Moroccan’ or ‘Turkish’ and does it really make them any less Dutch?
Document type Web publication or website
Language English
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