Transnational Identities in the Canadian Context: Kurdish Refugee Youth as Actors and Citizens

Autor/in	Kayaalp, Dilek
Titel	Transnational Identities in the Canadian Context: Kurdish Refugee Youth as Actors and Citizens
Quelle	In: Race, Ethnicity and Education, 25 (2022) 6, S.776-794 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1361-3324
DOI	10.1080/13613324.2020.1718081
Schlagwörter	Refugees; Foreign Countries; Citizenship; Social Status; Racism; Cultural Influences; Adolescents; Young Adults; Ethnic Groups; Sense of Community; Sociocultural Patterns; School Involvement; Self Concept; Acculturation; Iraq; Iran; Syria; Canada (Vancouver) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Flüchtling; Ausland; Staatsbürgerschaft; Sozialer Status; Rassismus; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Ethnie; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Schulmitwirkung; Selbstkonzept; Akkulturation; Irak; Syrien
Abstract	This study explores the circumstances of Kurdish refugee youth in Canada. Using a critical ethnographic approach, I interviewed twenty young people, aged 15-30, to examine their transnational identities and lived experiences in the Canadian context. Arendt's notion of the right to have rights, Isin's concept of acts of citizenship, and Hall's concept of state hegemony proved to be useful theoretical tools to examine the exclusion of refugee youth from the educational market and their statelessness, rightlessness, and statuslessness in the nation-states. The interview data indicate that the statelessness and statuslessness of refugee youth stem from the practices of hegemony, assimilation, and racism by their home and host state. The study also suggests the importance of questioning the state's hegemony and the domination of the western construction of citizenship to provide alternative forms of social and educational participation that can transform the youths' status from refugees to actors and citizens. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01