LUNN seminar series - National Boundaries and their Consequences for Immigrant Minorities

In this talk, Kristina will synthesize her work on national symbolic boundaries and the implications of boundary-drawing for immigrant minorities’ national and political belonging. She will draw on her cross-national research documenting how nations draw boundaries through citizenship policies, political rhetoric, and popular conceptions of nationhood, as well as Danish case studies of how first- and second-generation immigrants experience, negotiate and engage in boundary-drawing.

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University. Her research seeks to understand what it means to be part of a national, political community, with a particular interest in the debates immigration raises in contemporary Western democracies about who ‘we’ are. Her contributions include work on the various modes through which national boundaries are drawn in policies, political rhetoric, and everyday life and how ethnic minorities, especially second-generation immigrant youth experience and negotiate boundaries of belonging. She recently received an ERC Starting Grant to study political marginalization from the point of view of youths, focusing on the intersecting dimensions of ethnic minority/majority status, gender, and socio-economic position. Visit her personal webpage for further information.

Please note that the talk will be recorded. The talk is free and there is no need to register. Please access the talk via the link below.