Domestication of Difference: Practices of Civic Engagement among Middle Eastern Christians in Denmark
| Autor: | Lise Paulsen Galal, Sara Lei Sparre |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Denmark Immigration lcsh:DT1-3415 Ethnic group lcsh:HM401-1281 Context (language use) CONTEST Politics domestication Political science Cultural diversity 050602 political science & public administration Civic engagement 0601 history and archaeology Citizenship media_common Assyrian Christians 060101 anthropology 05 social sciences Chaldean Christians Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts 0506 political science lcsh:Sociology (General) lcsh:History of Africa Coptic Christians Ghassan Hage |
| Zdroj: | Mashriq & Mahjar, Vol 8, Iss 1 (2021) Sparre, S L & Galal, L P 2021, ' Domestication of difference : Practices of Civic Engagement among Middle Eastern Christians in Denmark ', Mashreq and Majar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 103-126 . https://doi.org/10.24847/v8i12020.287 |
| ISSN: | 2169-4435 |
| DOI: | 10.24847/v8i12020.287 |
| Popis: | This article employs Huggan and Hage’s concept of “domestication” as a lens for understanding the ways in which various forms of civic engagement among Coptic, Assyrian and Chaldean Christian migrant communities in Denmark reproduce and contest a Danish model of citizenship, a particular construction of both the national subject and its others. While churches are a primary place for civic engagement among Middle Eastern Christians as an ethno-religious group, internally in the communities three modalities of civic engagement – ‘serving,’ ‘committing,’ and ‘consuming’ – are practiced. Each produces different manifestations of citizenship because they engage with the local, national and transnational differently. Christians of Middle Eastern origin are not publicly visible as political or activist groups as they, along with other immigrant groups, are expected to immerse themselves into the Danish model where ethnic and cultural differences are acknowledged but disregarded of their original context and its power relations. This article employs Huggan and Hage’s concept of “domestication” as a lens for understanding the ways in which various forms of civic engagement among Coptic, Assyrian and Chaldean Christian migrant communities in Denmark reproduce and contest a Danish model of citizenship, a particular construction of both the national subject and its others. While churches are a primary place for civic engagement among Middle Eastern Christians as an ethno-religious group, internally in the communities three modalities of civic engagement – ‘serving,’ ‘committing,’ and ‘consuming’ – are practiced. Each produces different manifestations of citizenship because they engage with the local, national and transnational differently. Christians of Middle Eastern origin are not publicly visible as political or activist groups as they, along with other immigrant groups, are expected to immerse themselves into the Danish model where ethnic and cultural differences are acknowledged but disregarded of their original context and its power relations. |
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