dc.contributor |
Háskóli Íslands |
dc.contributor |
University of Iceland |
dc.contributor.author |
Guðjónsdóttir, Guðbjört |
dc.contributor.author |
Loftsdóttir, Kristín |
dc.date.accessioned |
2018-02-27T13:28:36Z |
dc.date.available |
2018-02-27T13:28:36Z |
dc.date.issued |
2016-06-23 |
dc.identifier.citation |
Guðjónsdóttir, G., & Loftsdóttir, K. (2017). Being a desirable migrant: perception and racialisation of Icelandic migrants in Norway. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(5), 791-808. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2016.1199268 |
dc.identifier.issn |
1369-183X |
dc.identifier.issn |
1469-9451 (eISSN) |
dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/582 |
dc.description.abstract |
In the aftermath of the financial crisis that hit Iceland in October 2008, increased numbers of Icelanders migrated to Norway to seek employment due to difficult economic circumstances in Iceland. Using critical perspectives from postcolonial studies and critical whiteness studies, the paper explores how these Icelandic migrants in Norway make sense of their new position as economic migrants within a global economy characterised by a growing sense of precariousness, while past inequalities and racism continue to matter. We also examine how these migrants are perceived in Norwegian media, and how social discourses of Icelandic migrants reflect larger Norwegian debates on racism, desirability and cultural belonging. Media discourses in Norway and interviews with Icelandic migrants reveal a hierarchy of acceptability of migrants. Icelanders are positioned as highly desirable compared to other migrant groups due to the intersection of perceived racial belonging, nationality and class. Our discussion contributes, furthermore, towards a critical analysis of the category migrant, by exploring how the term immigrant (innvandrer/innflytjandi) is used in narratives of Icelandic migrants in Norway and in Norwegian media discussions, showing the negative and racialised connotations of the term immigrant and how its understanding is linked with vulnerable positions and discrimination. |
dc.description.sponsorship |
This research received doctoral grants from the University of Iceland Research Fund and the Icelandic Centre for Research (Rannís) (grant number 174347-051), and a grant from the Memorial Fund of Eðvarð Sigurðsson. The study is part of the research project Icelandic Identity in Crisis, funded by the Icelandic Centre for Research (grant number 130426-051). |
dc.format.extent |
791-808 |
dc.language.iso |
en |
dc.publisher |
Informa UK Limited |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies;43(5) |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.subject |
Anthropology |
dc.subject |
Migration studies |
dc.subject |
Economic migrants |
dc.subject |
Racialisation |
dc.subject |
Class |
dc.subject |
Migrant desirability |
dc.subject |
Norway |
dc.subject |
Mannfræði |
dc.subject |
Fólksflutningar (félagsfræði) |
dc.subject |
Innflytjendur |
dc.subject |
Noregur |
dc.subject |
Bankahrunið 2008 |
dc.subject |
Lífskjör |
dc.title |
Being a desirable migrant: perception and racialisation of Icelandic migrants in Norway |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
dc.description.version |
Peer Reviewed |
dc.identifier.journal |
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
dc.identifier.doi |
10.1080/1369183X.2016.1199268 |
dc.relation.url |
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1369183X.2016.1199268 |
dc.contributor.department |
Félags- og mannvísindadeild (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.department |
Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (UI) |
dc.contributor.school |
Félagsvísindasvið (HÍ) |
dc.contributor.school |
School of Social Sciences (UI) |