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En boll av klumpar- Om flyktingars tillhörande

Meng, Tove LU (2014) SANK01 20131
Social Anthropology
Abstract
This bachelor thesis is a qualitative study that builds on five afghan immigrants’ experiences of national belonging after living in Sweden for many years. The primary focus of this thesis has been to study what purpose place and belonging has in identity making. It problematizes that national territory is a big part of our identity making and our sense of belonging, especially when it comes to refugees. It is analyzed how national territory as space can be said to influence/ intervene with the interviewees sense of belonging and national identity making in their assumed displacement in Sweden. The study shows that territorialization can be problematic in transmigratory matters because it often confines people to their homelands, i.e. the... (More)
This bachelor thesis is a qualitative study that builds on five afghan immigrants’ experiences of national belonging after living in Sweden for many years. The primary focus of this thesis has been to study what purpose place and belonging has in identity making. It problematizes that national territory is a big part of our identity making and our sense of belonging, especially when it comes to refugees. It is analyzed how national territory as space can be said to influence/ intervene with the interviewees sense of belonging and national identity making in their assumed displacement in Sweden. The study shows that territorialization can be problematic in transmigratory matters because it often confines people to their homelands, i.e. the national territory they orginally come from. This study shows that my interviewees experience a sense of being, both in, and between, two national spaces because of sedentary thoughts. It shows that belonging is an ongoing process and situational in it's form. (Less)
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author
Meng, Tove LU
supervisor
organization
course
SANK01 20131
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
national identity, migration, transnationalism, territorialization, belonging, displacement, social anthropology
language
Swedish
id
4251369
date added to LUP
2014-01-22 07:37:54
date last changed
2014-01-22 07:37:54
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  abstract     = {{This bachelor thesis is a qualitative study that builds on five afghan immigrants’ experiences of national belonging after living in Sweden for many years. The primary focus of this thesis has been to study what purpose place and belonging has in identity making. It problematizes that national territory is a big part of our identity making and our sense of belonging, especially when it comes to refugees. It is analyzed how national territory as space can be said to influence/ intervene with the interviewees sense of belonging and national identity making in their assumed displacement in Sweden. The study shows that territorialization can be problematic in transmigratory matters because it often confines people to their homelands, i.e. the national territory they orginally come from. This study shows that my interviewees experience a sense of being, both in, and between, two national spaces because of sedentary thoughts. It shows that belonging is an ongoing process and situational in it's form.}},
  author       = {{Meng, Tove}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{En boll av klumpar- Om flyktingars tillhörande}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}