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'Normally I should belong to the others': Young people's gendered transcultural competences in creating belonging in Germany and Canada

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Summary, in English

Young people create differentiated models of belonging. Their strategies reflect contexualized competences - the capacity to understand and negotiate the influence of national frameworks in specific situations. Theories that understand belonging as processual and intersectional offer useful frameworks with which to analyse this. This article uses data from empirical research with young people in a German secondary school and a Canadian junior high school to highlight young people's situated competences and their critique of the respective frameworks of belonging.

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Pages

163-180

Publication/Series

Childhood

Volume

17

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Gender Studies

Keywords

  • intersectionality
  • Germany
  • gender
  • feminist theory
  • Canada
  • ethno-cultural belonging
  • youth
  • school
  • national belonging

Status

Published

Project

  • “Transfer of Cultural Praxes and Norms: Allochthonous and Autochthonous Youths between Parents, School, and Peer Group”

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0907-5682