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Kulawik, Teresa

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“…In such processes, racial, linguistic, and religious boundaries are at the forefront. The complex post-imperial nation-building of Eastern Europe make questions of bordering particularly poignant due to its imagined position constituting the border between the Orient and the Occident, while being characterized by "several layers of imperial, national, regional, and linguistic borderlines" (Kulawik 2019). In order to assert the Europeanness of the region, an unspoken and invisibilized insistence on whiteness (Imre 2005, 82) coexists with Islam and the Ottoman Empire as boundary markers for determining what Europe is and what it is not, where its borders pass, and who belongs within them (Boatcă 2015).…”

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Boundaries and Belonging Among Settled Minorities and Refugees in Bulgaria

Carlsson

2022

Nationalities Papers

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The importance of settled minorities for facilitating refugee belonging is seldom discussed in research on refugee integration. Drawing on scholarship on belonging, boundary-making, and bordering, this study investigates how boundaries are drawn between settled minorities and refugees in Bulgaria. Based on interviews with integration workers and organizations of settled minorities in a state with the largest historically present Muslim minority in the EU, an Arabic-speaking diaspora settled decades ago, and with minimal state involvement in refugee integration, the study shows how spatial, linguistic, and religious boundaries separate settled minorities from newly arrived refugees. Arabic-speaking diasporas are nevertheless witnessed to overcome the boundaries through geographical proximity, a shared language, and shared countries of origin, whereby they have functioned as facilitators of refugee belonging and inclusion. Furthermore, Muslim institutions led by Bulgarian Turks have functioned as spaces for refugee belonging. The study finds that settled minority communities have, despite multiple boundaries and some assimilatory discourses, contributed to refugee belonging in ways that in part has compensated for the state absence. The study calls for further research investigating the role of settled minorities in inclusionary processes in society.

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Boundaries and Belonging Among Settled Minorities and Refugees in Bulgaria

Carlsson

2022

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“…Borderlands in European Gender Studies. Beyond the East-West Frontier (2020), to which she is one of the co-editors, TeresaKulawik (2020) notices the mechanism which functioned in the postcommunist context -a gradual dilution of the concept of Europeaness the more Eastern one got, as "these borderlands functioned not as the Postcolonial and Postcommunist Framework Europe's Other in terms of a binary qualitative alterity, but rather as Western Europe's incomplete self, employing mechanisms of quantitative inferiorization"…”

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Considerations on the Future of Feminism Within the Postcolonial and Postcommunist Framework

Marinescu

2023

Synergy

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This article presents some ideas on the future of feminism starting from the postcolonial/ postcommunist framework, based on similarities in the decolonisation and respectively transition periods in what regards approaches to gender and feminist practices, with a special interest in India and Romania. Some of these refer to belonging to the neoliberal paradigm and necessity to disrupt it, by strengthening the bottom-up work of the nongovernmental organisations, encouraging alternative knowledge systems and giving a voice to so-far silent members of society and non-human others, while focusing on a feminist ethic of care and using the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity for change.

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ZwischenWelten. Impulse fiktionaler Literatur für feministische Perspektiven auf Transformation

Strate¹

2022

FemPol

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Introduction

Cited by 3 publications

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Boundaries and Belonging Among Settled Minorities and Refugees in Bulgaria

Boundaries and Belonging Among Settled Minorities and Refugees in Bulgaria

Considerations on the Future of Feminism Within the Postcolonial and Postcommunist Framework

ZwischenWelten. Impulse fiktionaler Literatur für feministische Perspektiven auf Transformation

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