Politicized and depoliticized ethnicities, power relations and temporality: insights to outsider research from comparative and transnational fieldwork

Başer, Bahar; Toivanen, Mari

doi:10.1080/01419870.2017.1348530

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“…The researcher also needs to reflect on factors that might affect the results of the study due to the social interaction during the interviews (see, Baser & Toivanen 2018). The interviews were conducted by the author of this article, who belongs to the majority Time of immigration to Finland 1-4 years ago (12), 5-8 years ago (9), 9-12 years ago (10).…”

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‘You Need to Know Someone Who Knows Someone’: International Students’ Job Search Experiences

Alho

2020

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The article analyzes how 31 international students (IS) entered the Finnish labor market as they graduated from Finnish universities. Despite a growing interest in international student migration (ISM), there are few studies that analyze the firsthand experiences of IS as they seek to enter the receiving-country labor markets as they graduate. This article contributes to the topic by showing how the interviewees of this study managed to enter the receiving-country labor markets, which are embedded in national, cultural, and institutional contexts that require context-bound knowledge of particular recruitment patterns.The contribution of the article lies in (1) providing new insights on an understudied topic: IS’ experiences of finding jobs in the country of graduation, and, in (2) constructing a theoretical framework for analyzing IS’ job search in the countries ofgraduation. More broadly, the article contributes to the studies on highly educated migrants’ labor market integration by shedding light on the experiences in a Nordic setting.

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‘You Need to Know Someone Who Knows Someone’: International Students’ Job Search Experiences

Alho

2020

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“…I was able to gain access to the field and find research participants relatively easily as my positionality was constructed as a "neutral" outsider to the Kurdish community. Researcher positionality and how that potentially affected the data collection and knowledge production is discussed in more detail in Baser and Toivanen (2016), highlighting significant differences in researcher positionality based on "ethnicity" and national background (Turkish vs. Finnish).…”

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Second Generation and Migrant Capital in the Transnational Space: The Case of Young Kurds in France

Toivanen

2019

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Transnational ties, networks, and mobilities can constitute a social resource for diaspora communities. Resources available as a result of the migration process or transnational ties can potentially become capitalised by diaspora members. Yet, diaspora members cannot automatically capitalise on all transnational networks and ties, and only resources that are mobilisable within particular transnational networks constitute “migrant capital” (Anthias, 2007; Ryan, 2011). Migrants’ children have grown up in “transnational social space,” in a social setting that is embedded with multiple sets of interconnected networks of social relationships, memberships, identities, and mobilities of cross-border character (Levitt, 2009). Little is known on whether such transnational networks function as a mobilisable social resource, i.e., migrant capital, for the second generation. This study focuses on the transnational ties, practices, and mobilities of second-generation Kurds in France and examines whether those constitute a mobilisable resource for them. It specifically asks if second-generation members intent to or have capitalised on such resources in the transnational social space. The study sheds light on the workings of transnational resources in the lives of the second generation and asks about the extent to which they can be considered migrant capital. The analysis draws from a qualitative dataset such as interviews and observations collected with second-generation Kurds in France.

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“…Considering that interviews were conducted at a time in which notions of citizenship were highly politicised – the military campaign against IS was positively progressing and as an increasing portion of Iraqi territory was liberated, questions about future governance arrangements abounded among policymakers as well as the displaced population – sensitive issues were discussed with the interviewees only when raised by them. Overall, the authors found the answers on questions of citizenship to be forthright (Baser and Toivanen, 2017). The interviews have been analysed in order to detect recurrent themes expressed by the displacement population, as well as similarities and differences in the recollection of the displacement experience across ethnic and religious groups.…”

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Practices of exclusion, narratives of inclusion: Violence, population movements and identity politics in post-2014 northern Iraq

Costantini¹,

O’Driscoll

2019

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This article examines the practices and narratives of inclusion and exclusion in Iraq in relation to ethnic and religious minorities displaced by the Islamic State and the resulting war. Examining the displacement in Iraq through the lens of citizenship, and utilising 29 in-depth qualitative interviews with internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, this article argues that displacement has been accompanied by practices and narratives meant to include internally displaced people in a particularistic articulation of belonging rather than to ensure a substantive participation as Iraqi or Kurdistan Region of Iraq citizens. Rhetoric of citizenship in Iraq changes between civic and ethnosectarian belonging based on conflict dynamics and the competition for power, whilst remaining ethnosectarian in reality. Thus, internally displaced people and their citizenship have become entangled in wider ethnosectarian competition in Iraq, and narratives and practices of citizenship change to fit the objectives of these wider actors, mainly Baghdad and Erbil, rather than being based on inclusiveness and civic identity.

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Politicized and depoliticized ethnicities, power relations and temporality: insights to outsider research from comparative and transnational fieldwork

Abstract: This document is the author's post-print version, incorporating any revisions agreed during the peer-review process. Some differences between the published version and this version may remain and you are advised to consult the published version if you wish to cite from it.

Cited by 26 publications

References 10 publications

‘You Need to Know Someone Who Knows Someone’: International Students’ Job Search Experiences

‘You Need to Know Someone Who Knows Someone’: International Students’ Job Search Experiences

Second Generation and Migrant Capital in the Transnational Space: The Case of Young Kurds in France

Practices of exclusion, narratives of inclusion: Violence, population movements and identity politics in post-2014 northern Iraq

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