CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Mangalath, Anita Maria |
|---|---|
| Title | Included, Excluded, In-between, or all of the above? Being Defined as a Person with Immigrant Background in Austria and Germany |
| Summary | In Austria and Germany, the term Person with Immigrant Background (Person mit Migrationshintergrund, PwIB) refers to people with a migration history. Its everyday understanding has developed ethnicizing dynamics, resulting in the alienation of citizens and non-citizens with 'Non-Western' appearance. The issue has not been explored through the perspective of 'the categorized' yet, which would reveal the power dynamics underlying top-down terminologies. This thesis seeks to identify moments in which PwIBs' top-down definition is being implemented and resisted by the categorized. Interviews with people with a 'visible' and 'invisible' immigrant background were conducted to incorporate their voices in the scholarly discourse. While the participants identify as hybrids, society emphasises their foreignness. Job interviews or border crossings are moments in which their legal status collides with their visual appearance and a different treatment between them as citizen and ‘white-looking’ citizen is noticeable. |
| Supervisor | Strausz, Erzsebet |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/mangalath_anita.pdf |
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