Abstract
There are countless competing definitions of globalization, but in its simplest sense we can understand it as the “widening, deepening and speeding up of global interconnectedness” (Held et al. 1999: 2). Although the intensified worldwide ties associated with globalization are often primarily considered from an economic standpoint (see, for example, Castells 1996; McMichael 2017), they can also be understood from social and political perspectives in which “events, decisions, and activities in one part of the world come to have significant consequences for individuals and communities in quite distant parts of the globe” (McGrew 1992: 23). In this understanding, globalization has brought about a massive transformation in social and political relations and has impacted the ways in which we think about a variety of phenomena from nation-states, citizenship and borders to capitalism, the environment consumption and the ways we communicate (Delanty 2009). Indeed, as Delanty (2009: 1) notes, “virtually the entire span of human experience is in one way or the other influenced by globalization.” To this regard, human migration and globalization are often seen as phenomena that go hand in hand.
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Defined here as persons residing in a country other than that of their birth.
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Both pseudonyms were selected by the research participants after the interviews.
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A dozen interviews were conducted with members of a multicultural migrant association in Finland and another dozen with members of Finnish emigrant groups in the UK.
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This understanding of identity as performative draws on insights from phenomenological sociology, in particular the Goffmanian notion of self-presentation (see, for example, Goffman 1959).
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The numbers placed in parentheses indicate pauses in speech.
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At the time that the interview was conducted the Finns Party (Perussuomalaiset)—a party with a strongly anti-immigration and cultural diversity agenda—had recently achieved its breakthrough success in the 2011 General Elections in which it became the third largest party. As a result, our interview featured several instances in which Risto raised the rising popularity of “immigration critical” actors and expressed concern about these trends.
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Holley, P. (2018). “I’m a Citizen of the World”: Cosmopolitanism and Identity Work in the Telling of Migration Stories. In: Caselli, M., Gilardoni, G. (eds) Globalization, Supranational Dynamics and Local Experiences . Europe in a Global Context. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64075-4_8
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