Dual or Divided Identities?: National Identity and Community Values among Immigrants in Denmark and Western Europe

Karen Nielsen Breidahl

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Dual or Divided Identities? National Identity and Community Values among Immigrants in Denmark and Western Europe

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Abstract

Over the years, the size of the immigrant population has increased considerably in many Western countries and raised concerns whether the majority population within a nation-state identify with and share a number of common values despite increased ethnic and religious diversity. This chapter includes the immigrant population into the ‘national identity’ debate by examining the extent to which non-Western immigrants identify with and feel proud of their host nation, and it investigates the community values with which they identify, utilizing a nationally representative survey taken among five large non-Western groups living in Denmark and a comparable group of native Danes. The chapter finds that non-Western immigrant groups and their descendants feel less Danish and have less nationalist pride than the majority. These non-Western immigrant groups share a number of crucial values with the native population—most notably a number of liberal and republican values, raising a number of key issues for political theory.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics : Normative and Empirical Questions
Editors	Gina Gustavsson, David Miller
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	2019
Chapter	12
ISBN (Print)	9780198842545
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842545.003.0013
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	Liberal Nationalism and its Critics: normative and empirical questions - Workshop at Nuffield College, Oxford, Tuesday June 20th-Wednesday June 21st 2017 Convenors: Gina Gustavsson (University of Uppsala/Nuffield College, Oxford) and David Miller (Nuffield College, Oxford/Queen’s University, Ontario), Oxford, United Kingdom Duration: 20 Jun 2017 → 21 Jun 2017

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Seminar	Liberal Nationalism and its Critics: normative and empirical questions
Location	Workshop at Nuffield College, Oxford, Tuesday June 20th-Wednesday June 21st 2017 Convenors: Gina Gustavsson (University of Uppsala/Nuffield College, Oxford) and David Miller (Nuffield College, Oxford/Queen’s University, Ontario)
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Oxford
Period	20/06/2017 → 21/06/2017

Keywords

non-Western immigrants and descendants
national identity
community values
socio-cultural integration trajectories
Danish welfare state
national identity construction

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Breidahl, KN 2019, Dual or Divided Identities? National Identity and Community Values among Immigrants in Denmark and Western Europe. in G Gustavsson & D Miller (eds), Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics: Normative and Empirical Questions. Oxford University Press, Oxford, Liberal Nationalism and its Critics: normative and empirical questions, Oxford, United Kingdom, 20/06/2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842545.003.0013

Dual or Divided Identities? National Identity and Community Values among Immigrants in Denmark and Western Europe. / Breidahl, Karen Nielsen.
Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics: Normative and Empirical Questions. ed. / Gina Gustavsson; David Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

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