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Integration and Social Relations: Between Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

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‘Between ethnicity and cosmopolitanism’ analyzes various meanings and representations of the presumed cosmopolitanism of the privileged migrants. Through an analysis of social networks, everyday practices, and discourses of belongings, this chapter attempts to deconstruct such an image by referring to aspects of their sociability that can be ascribed to or be interpreted both as ethnic and cosmopolitan tendencies. Various cases and aspects of everyday lives illustrate how social lives of European migrants in Japan demonstrate tendencies toward shared humanity and maintaining of the ethnic identity at the same time. This chapter depicts cosmopolitan orientations or sociability of the subjects as a ‘deformed’, lived practice, that is importantly seen as a part of integration into wider Japanese society and not transnational social spaces detached from the local community.

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Debnár, M. (2016). Integration and Social Relations: Between Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism. In: Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56149-7_6

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