Friday 13 April 2012 at 11:00 - 12:30
SOCIAL DIVISIONS / SOCIAL IDENTITIES Radu, C.
similarities - construed
ROGER STEVENS 02 University of Edinburgh
Identity 'Fictions' or Identification through Recognition? Membership without Belonging in Roma Encounters with the State
People have never been governed through their individualities as this would have constituted impossibility of action, but through their
collective categories that fit the state interests:
employed/unemployed, married/unmarried, legal/illegal etc. Documenting identity has both 'repressive' and 'emancipatory' effects, it grants or restricts individual rights and access to benefits (Caplan, Torpy 2001). Through documenting processes, individuals can be partly 'expropriated' of their own identity and subjected to state classificatory categories. Nevertheless, there are always uncontrolled intersectionalities between categories, local practices and negotiations of law appliances, which cannot give a clear answer to all forms of governance of the subject. My 12 month ethnographic study challenges the connection between ethnicity and poverty by looking at the identity management of two Romanian Roma groups with different economic standards of living. Identity management, rather than Roma poverty is a key reference in the mechanisms of welfare distribution. Individuals create identity stories ('fictions') in order to get access to state welfare but they become, at the same time, subjects of its control, surveillance and identification mechanisms (recognition). They fear belonging but desire membership as far as laws offer both constraints and opportunities. Membership or belonging to state rules are not individual or institutional choices but subscribe to the logic of the encounters within which individuals are both subjects and objects of the state power dynamic. The present paper is an analytical exploration of Roma management of identity in relation with this area of negotiability of state procedures, laws and practices.
Pratsinakis, E. University of Amsterdam
Difference as a Privilege of the Similar: Soviet Greek and Albanian Immigrants in the Eyes of Their Native Neighbours
Soviet Greeks immigration was considered an important resource by the Greek state whereas Albanian immigration was viewed as a threat. Ideologies of Greekness have been crucial in determining inclusion and exclusion of immigrants both in the implementation of policy as well as in the representational sphere. However, redirecting the attention to everyday interaction at the neighbourhood level in Thessaloniki, we are faced with a paradox. Representations of natives about their Soviet Greek neighbours are prejudiced while Albanian neighbours are viewed more favourably. Attempting to resolve the paradox this paper explores how immigrant-native relations unfold through an unequal power struggle over officially imposed classifications and native perceptions about how immigrants should behave and about what their position should be. In the short run, immigrants behaviour is judged by the degree of their compliance to the native norms. Immigrant categories are endowed with different resources in resisting the pressure exerted by the native society. On the one hand, Albanians being a highly stigmatised category with a precarious legal status had no option but try to fit in order to strive for inclusion. On the other hand, Soviet Greeks being more resourceful in symbolic and substantial terms were less eager to comply.
Olufayo, O-O., Abiola, D., Gbadamosi, G. Ethnic Identity and the Crises of Development in Nigeria
The amalgamation of the country has often been described as a marriage of convenience. Convenient only for those who conceived the idea but a national headache for those for whom the concept was constructed. The by- product of this is a thickened ethnic identity/loyalty as against the desired overall development of the nation. The mistrust among the various groups led to the birth of other twin sisters namely Federal Character and the quota system each accompanied by its guard of soldiers playing an operative negative value on national
development.This study therefore examines the behavioural consequences of ethnic identity on the development of the largest and one of the most blessed country in sub-sahara Africa. Data were collected from both the primary and secondary sources for the analysis.A three part questionnaire was designed for the collection of relevant data relating to the
research.This was complimented with in-depth interview of key informant in the study location. Findings, however revealed a continued distrust among the various groups and deep feeling of hope betrayed. The study made some recommendations for improvement.
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