Searching for belonging and confronting exclusion: a person-centred approach to immigrant settlement experiences in Canada
| Autor: | Glynis George, Erwin Dimitri Selimos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration 0507 social and economic geography Gender studies Sense of belonging 0506 political science Narrative inquiry 050602 political science & public administration Inclusion–exclusion principle Narrative Sociology Settlement (litigation) Social identity theory 050703 geography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Social Identities. 25:125-140 |
| ISSN: | 1363-0296 1350-4630 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13504630.2017.1381834 |
| Popis: | Drawing on an analysis of three immigrant narratives, this paper employs a person-centred approach to immigrant integration in Canada. It examines how immigrants interpret the inclusions/exclusions that mark their integration experience and the consequences these experiences have on their social identities and sense of belonging. Analysis demonstrates that for immigrants a sense of belonging does not grow in a linear fashion; rather, it grows, stalls, dissipates and/or flourishes in relation to the ties and identifications that immigrants are enabled to forge. Broader structural and historical forces prefigure immigrant inclusion and exclusion in Canada in ways that reflect a hierarchy of migration and belonging. We argue that a recognition of Canada’s ‘hierarchies of belonging’ and the multidimensional nature of social inclusion/exclusion complicate integration metaphors that flatten the uneven social terrain of immigrant belonging. |
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