Essays about: "multiethnicity"

Found 3 essays containing the word multiethnicity.

  1. 1. Multiethnicity and Identity in Kosovo through European Integration : The Construction of Group-Differentiated Rights in Kosovo

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Elma Mislimi; [2023]
    Keywords : multiethnicity; identity; ethnicity; Kosovo; non-majority communities; group-differentiated rights; minority rights; European integration; European accession;

    Abstract : The Republic of Kosovo’s self-declared multiethnic society has strived to construct an inclusive attitude and tolerating spirit toward all communities within. This study has explored how group-differentiated rights are used to construct identity and multiethnicity in relation to European integration in four official documents using the research questions; how is the production of identity and multiethnicity through group-differentiated rights in Kosovo constructed in the documents and related to EU integration; and how has the EU accession process affected the construction of multiethnicity and identity in Kosovo’s documents on minorities relating to group-differentiated rights? An ethnographic content analysis and comparative design, with a social constructivist perspective, grasping the constituents of group-differentiated rights concerning exclusive rights granted to minorities employed to develop, and safeguard identities was applied. READ MORE

  2. 2. Multiculturalism for integration and the repertoires of racializing the other: A case of Kenyan immigrants living in Sweden

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Diana Waruhiu Magnusson; [2020]
    Keywords : Integration; Multiculturalism; Stereotyping;

    Abstract : This study is grounded on qualitative interviews with 12 adult Kenyan immigrants living in Sweden regarding their experiences of othering, racialisation, creation of divisions in society based on “us” and “them” linked on repertories of racializing the other in the Swedish multicultural environment. I engage with stereotyping as theory which is used as a tool to pick difference, racialize the respondents by white Swedish natives, and how these actions affect the respondents in their everyday life in Sweden. READ MORE

  3. 3. Managing diversity in post-war Kosovo: multiculturalism in practice

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Arton Krasniqi; [2015]
    Keywords : multiculturalism; multiethnicity; Kosovo; interethnic relations; minority rights; international community;

    Abstract : This thesis embarks on efforts to understand how effective is multiculturalism in addressing ethnic cleavages in post-conflict societies. Kosovo, as a post-socialist and post-war country, is the particular case analyzed in order to understand how multiculturalist policies have in the last fifteen years affected interethnic relations in the country. READ MORE