In what sense English? an exploration of English migrant identities and identification

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3608232
AutoresA Findlay (0000-0002-2517-6999), Allan M Findlay, Caroline Hoy, Alan Stockdale (0000-0002-7363-4915), Aileen Stockdale
Ano2004
Volume30
Fascículo1
Páginas59-79
Data de publicação2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Community (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183032000170178
OpenAlexW2011395654
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas32

The empirical focus of this article is an analysis of the self‐identities of English‐born persons living in urban Scotland. The material is theorised relative to the debate between modernist conceptions of identity and post‐structuralist notions of identification. The researchers construct a fourfold typology of ‘English’ migrants that helps to problematise the nature and diverse meanings of ‘Englishness’. The search to understand why many English migrants avoid the ‘English’ label in statements of self‐identity leads to consideration of work on neo‐tribes and problems of identification in fluid societies. A secondary, but also important, aspect of the paper is the exploration of ‘accent’ as a marker of ‘identity’. This proves important in bounding the English service class in Scotland, otherwise an invisible migrant population

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Population · Sociology · Typology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology