The cachet dilemma: Ritual and agency in new Dutch nationalism

Verkaaik, Oskar

doi:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01242.x

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“…Some studies have identified a paradox between the dominance of Dutch exclusive national discourse, and the growing obligation imposed on migrants to belong to and prove their loyalty to Dutch society (Reekum and Duyvendak 2012;Verkaaik 2010). Buitelaar and Stock (2010) refer to the conflicting demands that Muslim migrants are confronted with (mandating assimilation yet referring to them solely as Muslims) as a "double bind".…”

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Negotiating belonging beyond rootedness: unsettling the sedentary bias in the Dutch culturalist discourse

Ghorashi

2016

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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In the era of late or "liquid modernity", we can observe the re-emergence of solid categories in the form of nationalistic sentiments and cultural contrasts. The growing culturalist discourse in most European societies is an example of the reification of cultural difference. Within this discourse, it is posited that the most "natural" link for migrants is to their countries of origin. This discourse suggests that generations of migrants living inside the nation are constructed as not belonging to it. This "sedentary bias" produces dichotomies of rootedness in the places of origin and uprootedness in countries where generations of migrants presently live. When normalized, this positioning limits differentiated, multilayered, and multi-sited possibilities of belonging. By comparing two sets of empirical data on diverse women in the Netherlands, this article shows how the inclusion of interpretations and negotiations of everyday interactions can enable alternative forms of positioning and belonging.

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Negotiating belonging beyond rootedness: unsettling the sedentary bias in the Dutch culturalist discourse

Ghorashi

2016

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…As Rose and Miller have argued, "It is in this discursive field that 'the state' itself emerges as a historically variable linguistic device for conceptualizing and articulating ways of ruling" (Rose and Miller 1992, p. 177). Most nation-states in Europe have reemphasized their role as a powerful force in cultural processes and a meaningful source of legitimacy in a time when this very legitimacy of nation-states as providers of political meaning is under pressure (Geschiere 2009;Verkaaik 2010). As such, nation-states are cultural projects that present themselves through particular narratives in particular sites.…”

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The long arm of the state? Transnationalism, Islam, and nation-building: the case of Turkey and Morocco

2016

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From the moment the first Turkish and Moroccan workers migrated to Europe in the early 1960s, the Turkish and Moroccan states have been concerned with how to bind emigrated citizens to their country of origin. In this article, we focus on Islam as a multi-dimensional binding mechanism. Religion is a broad register that links emotion, affect, and senses of belonging and binds individuals to political and cultural projects of collective actors and states. As we will demonstrate, it is a field in which both states and migrants have developed a variety of activities and initiatives, but it is difficult to single out what pertains to the state and what not. We argue that although state involvement in these two cases differs markedly, there are some intriguing parallels when we concentrate on religion. In both cases, religious affiliation is a very complex source of binding and of fission. State-monitored transnational networks have been tools of binding, but the same networks have engendered processes of disengagement from the state.

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“…Previous studies in the Netherlands have indeed found large differences between municipalities in the implementation of national integration policies such as civic integration classes (Kirk 2010) and naturalization ceremonies (Verkaaik 2010). Although it is often assumed that local policies will be more accommodating, this need not be the case: indeed, local policy actors can also ignore migrant issues or seek to externalize them (Mahnig 2004).…”

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Diverse cities and good citizenship: how local governments in the Netherlands recast national integration discourse

Hoekstra¹

2015

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Western European national policies increasingly portray diversity as negative and migrants as 'others' who do not belong to the national community. This article examines how local governments articulate alternative discourses of belonging based on residents' shared membership in the civic life of the city. In a Dutch case study, the ways in which local policymakers diverge from exclusionary national narratives are examined. It is argued that discourses about urban citizenship offer opportunities for the inclusion of migrants by drawing new boundaries between 'good' citizens and those who are unwilling to participate.

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The cachet dilemma: Ritual and agency in new Dutch nationalism

Cited by 81 publications

References 10 publications

Negotiating belonging beyond rootedness: unsettling the sedentary bias in the Dutch culturalist discourse

Negotiating belonging beyond rootedness: unsettling the sedentary bias in the Dutch culturalist discourse

The long arm of the state? Transnationalism, Islam, and nation-building: the case of Turkey and Morocco

Diverse cities and good citizenship: how local governments in the Netherlands recast national integration discourse

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