Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden sheds light on the day-to-day strategies of accommodation and resistance that Kurdish youth use in the face exclusive narratives and structures of belonging and citizenship regimes in the Middle-East and Sweden.

Autorentext

Barzoo Eliassi is a researcher at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

Inhalt

1. The Kurdish Diaspora and the Retreat of Multiculturalism in Western Europe 2. Kurdish Identities and Political Struggle in the Middle East 3. Theorizing Belonging and Citizenship in Ethnically Divided Societies 4. Historical Injustices, Uneven Nationalisms, and Reproduction of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Diaspora 5. Unequal Citizenship, Home(land)s, and Strategies of Dealing with Ethnic Discrimination in Sweden 6. Orientalization of the Kurds and Reproduction of Colonial Categorization by Kurdish Youth in Sweden 7. Conclusion: The Struggle for Social Justice and Citizenship Rights