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Recognizing the National Identity: Cultural Intimacy and the Polish Migration to Norway

Publication date: 17.01.2016

Ethnographies, 2015, Tom 43, Numer 3, pp. 241 - 258

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.15.017.4879

Authors

Marek Pawlak
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Katedra Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0396-9154 Orcid
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Recognizing the National Identity: Cultural Intimacy and the Polish Migration to Norway

Abstract

Recognising the National Identity: Cultural Intimacy and the Polish Migration to Norway

The article aims to explore the interdependencies between particular social and cultural imaginaries and the recognition of national identity among post-accession migrants living mobile lives between Poland and Norway. By introducing the context of two different kinds of habitus constructed by Polish migrants along the lines of social class belonging, I move further to analyze a wider, yet pervasive, interplay between national identity and its self and public recognition. Therefore, throughout the article, I draw on Michael Herzfeld’s concepts of ‘cultural intimacy’ and the ‘global hierarchy of value’ in order to theorize ethnographic details and indicate how and in what ways certain Polish migrants are imagined and perceived as ‘embarrassing’ by other co-nationals.
 

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Information: Ethnographies, 2015, Tom 43, Numer 3, pp. 241 - 258

Article type: Original article

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Recognizing the National Identity: Cultural Intimacy and the Polish Migration to Norway

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Recognizing the National Identity: Cultural Intimacy and the Polish Migration to Norway

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0396-9154

Marek Pawlak
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Katedra Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0396-9154 Orcid
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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Katedra Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej

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