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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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German Muslims and the ‘Integration Debate’: Negotiating Identities in the Face of Discrimination
TL;DR: The analysis of the discourse shows the participants to fall back into an essentialized way of thinking that makes their ethnic being incompatible with being German; and they resort to their Muslim roots as a cultural resource for identity construction and self-worth.
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Beyond Acculturation: Multiculturalism and the Institutional Shaping of an Ethnic Consumer Subject
Ela Veresiu,Markus Giesler +1 more
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Partitioning to Peace: Sovereignty, Demography, and Ethnic Civil Wars
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the outcome of partition, highlighting the centrality of demography by introducing an index that measures the degree to which a partition separates ethnic groups, and found that the partition that completely separated the warring groups did not experience a recurrence of war and low-level violence for at least five years.
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Survival in the Frontier Zone: Comparative Perspectives on Identity and Political Allegiance in China's Inner Asian Borderlands during the Sui-Tang Dynastic Transition (617-630)
TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between identities and political allegiances on premodern frontiers and concluded that people in frontier zones tended to forge political ties based on self-interest and personal connections.
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Transnationalism and Ethnonational Diasporism
TL;DR: This article argued that much recent scholarship devoted to the concept of transnationalism and to the category of Transnational communities is misguided and pointed out that scholars neglect to acknowledge the distinctions between the transnational and the diasporic, in particular the qualities and features of certain ethno-diasporas that set them apart.