Being “The Damned Foreigner”: <i>Affective National Sentiments and Racialization of Lithuanians in Iceland</i>

2017/06/27 by Kristín Loftsdóttir · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Diaspora, migration, transnational identity

paper · pdf · doi:10.1515/njmr-2017-0012

openalex publication_date 2017/06/27 · openalex created_date 2017/07/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/12

Abstract

The discussion draws from recent writing on the meaning of ‘whiteness’ in the Nordic countries, emphasizing the importance to understand racialization in different localities. Racism is entangled with affective meanings related to discourse of the nation, furthermore, as shaped by global discourses and class. The discussion exemplifies this in the context of migrants from Lithuania in Iceland, demonstrating how they become racialized in Iceland during the boom period in the early 2000s.

Citations

• The Racialization of the New European Migration to the UK
• Policing Borders, Producing Boundaries. The Governmentality of Immigration in Dark Times
• ‘Racism’, intersectionality and migration studies: framing some theoretical reflections

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• Útrásarvíkingar!
• Demographics of Iceland [wikipedia]
• Icelanders [wikipedia]

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