Essays about: "Kirstine Høeg"

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  1. 1. Forced assimilation of Indigenous children: The case of the Danish-Greenlandic experiment

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

    Author : Kirstine Høeg; [2019]
    Keywords : Forced assimilation; Indigenous children; Identity; Cultural trauma; Greenland;

    Abstract : This thesis examines personal consequences of forced assimilation in relation to identity and belonging of 22 Greenlandic children who were sent to Denmark to participate in a ‘social experiment’ in the beginning of the 1950’s. By adopting a social psychological approach, the theoretical framework of intergroup identification and cultural trauma theories has been applied to the experiences of the children as accounted in the two books ‘For Flid og God Opførsel’ by Thiesen(2011) and ‘I den bedste mening’ by Bryld(1998). READ MORE