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Ethno-national Mobilization of Croat Immigrants in Vienna: Some Problems with an Undifferentiated Notion of the Politics of Belonging

Author starts his analysis with the claim that supposed normative and symbolic belonging which is usually applied to individuals, majority and minority groups of immigration societies becomes essencialised in the politics but also in the social sciences. Politics of belonging as a concept presupposes uniform reaction of immigrants to the processes such as forming and reshaping of social and ethnic boundaries. The implicit idea of uniform immigrant action is then widely generalised without clear empirical evidence. Author uses the example of Croat immigrants in Vienna to illustrate the complexity of immigrant ethnic mobilisation and intrinsic variety of migrant identities, ideologies and actions in the post-migratory period. He argues that undifferentiated application of concepts such as politics of belonging can jeopardise the validity of wider generalisations on migrant ethnic mobilisation.

politics of belonging, migration, mobilisation of migrants

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