The duplicity of diversity: Caribbean immigrants in Denmark
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The duplicity of diversity : Caribbean immigrants in Denmark. / Olwig, Karen Fog.
In: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 38, No. 7, 2015, p. 1104-1119.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The duplicity of diversity
T2 - Caribbean immigrants in Denmark
AU - Olwig, Karen Fog
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - ‘Diversity’ has become a key term in recent years, yet it has been criticized for being a vague concept with different and contradictory meanings. This article demonstrates that there are at least three inherent meanings of the term: (1) discerned difference attributed with positive or negative value; (2) diverting diversity providing pleasure and amusement; and (3) distracting diversity directing attention from something of greater importance. I argue that the concept of diversity can be a fruitful focus in ethnographic research, if its inherent multiplex and duplicitous character is recognized and actively employed. This is shown through an analysis of the ways in which immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean to Denmark have been perceived and received as foreigners since the 1960s as representing different kinds of diversity.
AB - ‘Diversity’ has become a key term in recent years, yet it has been criticized for being a vague concept with different and contradictory meanings. This article demonstrates that there are at least three inherent meanings of the term: (1) discerned difference attributed with positive or negative value; (2) diverting diversity providing pleasure and amusement; and (3) distracting diversity directing attention from something of greater importance. I argue that the concept of diversity can be a fruitful focus in ethnographic research, if its inherent multiplex and duplicitous character is recognized and actively employed. This is shown through an analysis of the ways in which immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean to Denmark have been perceived and received as foreigners since the 1960s as representing different kinds of diversity.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2014.987306
DO - 10.1080/01419870.2014.987306
M3 - Journal article
VL - 38
SP - 1104
EP - 1119
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
SN - 0141-9870
IS - 7
ER -
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