Structural Discrimination – Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Mira Skadegaard Thorsen, Christian Horst

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    Abstract

    This article examines challenges that arise when discrimination is expressed in communication across perceived differences (inter-cultural communication). More specifically, it looks at how visible minority Danes navigate in regard to structural discrimination (implicit and underlying forms of discrimination) imbricated in seemingly neutral everyday communication. It argues that structural discrimination
    is discursive and constitutive and is expressed in language as well as communicated in the form of naturalizations and embodiments of discrimination. It suggests that structural discrimination is so deeply imbricated within day-to-day forms of communication and interaction across perceived differences, that
    it is (nearly) invisible and normative. A particular challenge is how Danes of color navigate in situations where discrimination is vehemently denied, yet simultaneously apparent.
    A central focus is the tension or discrepancy that arises between acknowledged and unacknowledged experiences of discrimination. These include verbal as well as non-verbal communication, abstract and implicit social codes and behaviors, and embodied experience. The article is primarily theoretical, but takes its point of departure and examples from qualitative research conducted in Copenhagen, Denmark from 2011 - 2013.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Publikationsdato27 nov. 2014
    Antal sider1
    StatusUdgivet - 27 nov. 2014
    BegivenhedNordic Intercultural Communication Conference 2014: Language, Culture and Communication - The Vigdis Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages, at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Island
    Varighed: 26 nov. 201428 nov. 2014

    Konference

    KonferenceNordic Intercultural Communication Conference 2014
    LokationThe Vigdis Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages, at the University of Iceland
    Land/OmrådeIsland
    ByReykjavik
    Periode26/11/201428/11/2014

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