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Doing ethnicity: Ethnic wordplay amongst youths

Author(s) -

Layal Kasselias Wiltgren

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

childhood

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.966

H-Index - 60

eISSN - 1461-7013

pISSN - 0907-5682

DOI - 10.1177/0907568216682305

Subject(s) - ethnic group , ethnically diverse , categorization , style (visual arts) , sociology , social psychology , psychology , gender studies , geography , anthropology , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology

The article illustrates ethnicity as a social construction by highlighting how students use ethnically based concepts to categorize each other as well as the Other. Although the concepts have ethnic connotations, they are mainly concerned with matters of style and behaviour. They are therefore open, fluid and inclusive because the students can alternate between the categories. The analyses draw on 1year of fieldwork in two eighth grade classes in which all students have experience of migration within their families

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