What’s ethnicity got to do with it?

• Verfasst von: Tol, Marietta van der [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: What’s ethnicity got to do with it?
• Titelzusatz: Religious and racial politics in Europe
• Mitwirkende: Becker-Topkara, Elisabeth
• Verf.angabe: Marietta van der Tol and Elisabeth Becker
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: 21 Mar 2024
• Umfang: 20 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 19.06.2024
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Ethnic and racial studies
• Ort Quelle: London [u.a.] : Routledge, 1978
• Jahr Quelle: 2024
• Band/Heft Quelle: 47(2024), 9, Seite 1749-1768
• ISSN Quelle: 1466-4356
• DOI: doi:10.1080/01419870.2024.2328318
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: classification
• Sach-SW: discrimination
• Sach-SW: Ethnicity
• Sach-SW: race
• Sach-SW: religion
• Sach-SW: self-identification
• K10plus-PPN: 1891545442

Abstract

Drawing on sociology, anthropology, constitutional law, and political philosophy, this issue explores how the concept of ethnicity functions as a salient category for understanding the experiences of minorities in Europe today. It considers ethnicity as a powerful means of self-identification and the assertion of differences between as well as within ethnic groups. This issue engages the tension between group-based stigmatization on the one hand, and the reality of increasingly fragmented forms of identification under the influences of de-institutionalization and individualization. It also hones in on the ethnicization and racialization of nationhood under the influence of right-wing identity politics, and the exploitation of ethnic differences for political and electoral purposes. In its engagement with socio-legal studies, this issue considers a number of strategies for alleviating the pressure on ethnic minorities, for example through the use of private sector duties as well as potential innovations of anti-discrimination infrastructures.