Youth in Multicultural Contexts

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deltagelse med paper til FORSKNINSSEMINAR 18. / 19. november 2014, HiL Youth in Multicultural Contexts: Dealing with Social Relations and Experiences of Belonging, Identity and Well-Being Paper abstract: Conflictual processes of belonging, meaning-making and recognition: Young ethnic minority men moving beyond criminal street communities in Copenhagen, Denmark Line Lerche Mørck, Aarhus University, [email protected] The paper presents a social practice theoretical understanding of conflictual processes of belonging, recognition, and struggles of marginalization in and across different multicultural contexts. Empirically the paper follows Bilal and Ali, both young ethnic minority men in their twenties, their movements in and beyond criminal street communities. The paper explores their new belongings, (lack of) meanings in and across educations, interventions and street gang communities, and how the two young men through processes of recognition in new communities reinvents themself, us and others, moving beyond marginal positions. This includes analysis in and across different (multi)cultural contexts, such as Danish people college, the prison, as well as new NGO communities, organized in a collaboration between students, professionals and former gang members.

Periode	18 nov. 2014 → 19 nov. 2014
Begivenhedstype	Seminar
Placering	Lillehammer, NorgeVis på kort