Abstract Reader International Conference Ethnicity, Belonging, Biography, and Ethnography Center of Methods in Social Sciences In cooperation with TransCoop project „Biography and Ethnicity“, Research Committee 38 „Biography and Society“ of the International Sociological Association, Committee Biographical Research in the German Sociological Association December 7th - 9th, 2007, Goettingen, Germany Contents Aarelaid-Tart, Ali Estonian Russians` life stories from the prism of frame analyses 1 Anthias, Floya Belonging, identity, intersectionality and translocational positionality 2 Bally, Anna Sibling identifications and „the enigma of arrival“ 3 Bar-On, Dan Redifining dialogue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 4 Bernstein, Julia Transjewish affiliations: constructions of ethnicity by Russian-speaking 5 Jewish migrants in Israel and Germany Bhattarai, Hari P. Politics of belonging in a plural state: making of Janajati (ethnic) identity in 6 Nepal Bogner, Artur NGOs, transformations of conflicts and modes of governance in North 7 Ghana Boldt, Thea Ethnic belonging in biographical presentations of polish emigrants in 9 Germany Breckner, Roswitha What do pictures show? Interpreting the ‘visual’ in social phenomena 10 ‘Strangers’ in public pictures. A methodical photo analysis 11 Cara, Olga Intergenerational ethnic narratives of Russians in Latvia 12 Cengic, Nejra Nuna Life stories and dialogue (es). A postgraduate course at the University of 13 Sarajevo Chaitin, Julia, John Linstroth, Patrick Hiller, Denese Edsall, Paloma Ayala Vela, Mamyrah Prosper, Alison Hall Hyphens of belonging: ethnicity and community among Haitians and 15 Cubans in the United States Chaitin, Julia Identities in peace and conflict: belonging among Israeli and Palestinian 16 émigrés to the United States Corsten, Michael We-sense – the tacit source of social belonging 17 Craciun, Cristina Local identity and collective belonging in two neighbour villages of Vrancea 19 County in Romania Davis, Kathy, Lorraine Nencel “Where are you from actually?” An autoethnographical account of everyday 20 practices of exclusion in multi-cultural society Diehl, Claudia Identity and generation. An empirical study of the social, identificational, 21 and cognitive integration process of the immigrant-origin population in Germany Dolberg, Pnina In between immigrants, in between identities: on the identity of immigrants 22 from the USSR to Israel in the 1970's after the wave of immigration in the 1990's. Ferber, Maja Some criteria of collective belongings and their impact for positions of the 23 Israeli society in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Garzón, Luis Belonging as “returning”: the plight of Argentinean and Ecuadorian 25 migrants in Southern European cities Ghani Razaak, Mohamed Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka: identity crisis or human security issue? 26 Gilad, Noga The paradox of belonging in space: Israeli settlers in the West Bank 27 between settling and already settled Hakkarainen, Marina Jewishness in the post-Soviet space (on example of Ukrainian small town 28 communities) Hermann, Elfriede Consciousness of political history and emotional ties: ethnic belonging in 29 the autobiographies of relocated Banabans in Fiji Hervai Szabó, Gyöngyvér Cosmopolis revisited: myths of trans-national forms of being (comparative 30 analyses of identity formation in US minority, and in French, British migrant’s novel) Inowlocki, Lena, Angelika Rieber, Heiner Schwarz Side taking, role playing, reflecting. Final year students in a German high 32 school studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Isaakyan, Irina Memories of the nation-in-exile and collective belonging to homeland: 34 Sovietishness and nostalgia through narrative biographies of Russian academic emigrants Juhasz, Anne Ethnicity and citizenship: the second generation in Switzerland between 35 social exclusion and the pressure to assimilate Kaya, Asiye Ethnicity and belonging among young migrant women with Turkish 36 backgrounds in Germany Kaźmierska, Kaja Identity, the sense of belonging and biographical closure 37 Koessler, Reinhart The vicissitudes of boundaries, or: who belongs where and what belongs to 38 whom Kissmann, Ulrike Tikvah, Renate Lieb Zur Bedeutung von Vorgangs-, Eigenschafts- und Situationsbeschreibungen 39 im Krankenhaus Klvanava, Radka Inclusion and exclusion in the biographies of migrants from the post-Soviet 41 union in the Czech Republic in a transnational perspective Kobayashi, Tazuko Public story and Biography: reconstructing life story of a Japanese 42 American Koettig, Michaela Interviews and observations in Florida and Germany 43 Constructions of belonging by migrants from Cuba in South Florida and 44 Germany Koli Bau, Yanuarius Cross-cultural conflicts and integration: the case of East Timor refugees in 45 Indonesia Kanopka, Nicole K. Epistolary tricksters – finding ways to write about America 46 Krumer-Nevo, Michal, Menny Malka Identity pains: ethnic and gendered identities of immigrant boys from the 47 Caucasus to Israel Lin, Mei-Ling Globalization and belongings: multiple political memberships, overlapping 48 national identities, and the dimensions of citizenship Linstroth, John P. Al Norte: cognition, memory, and identity among Guatemala/Maya living in 49 South Florida Lutz, Helma Belonging and boundary making – dilemmas of exploring transnational 50 biographies Mamul, Natalia Towards the construction of national identity 51 Nyamnjoh, Francis B. From bounded to flexible citizenship: lessons from Africa 52 Ofner, Ulrike Labour chances and restrictions for highly qualified migrants with foreign 53 degrees Pamporov, Alexey A kaleidoscopic ethnic identity: the case of Roma in 54 Bulgaria Pető, Andrea Biographies revisited. Life stories of female members of the Hungarian 56 Fascist (Arrow Cross) Party Phoenix, Ann Transforming transnational biographies 58 Pluess, Caroline Chinese Singaporean transnational migrants: 60 Constructing a transnational habitus Rezvushkina, Tatyana Models of interethnic marriages 61 Ribeiro, Joana Sousa A “transnational cognitive space”: the impact of migration on the identity 63 formation Rosenthal, Gabriele Research dilemma: ethnization or de-ethnization of the interviewees by the 64 researchers? Ruokonen-Engler, Minna-Kristiina De/Constructing difference: a biographical perspective on constructions of 65 ethnicity as transnational positionality Sabery, Reza Ethnicity and ethnic relations, a study of Turkmen in north of Iran 66 Sander, Kirsten Praxis der Herstellung von Professions- und Geschlechtergrenzen im 67 Krankenhaus: Analysen von szenischen Beschreibungen in Interviews und Beobachtungsprotokollen Scheibelhofer, Paul Towards a critical (but non-Orientalist) approach to research on migrant 68 masculinity Schiebel, Martina Biographie und Politik. Eine Generation zwischen politischer Partizipation 69 und staatlicher Repression Soom Ammann, Eva How migrants experience ageing: retired Italian couples 71 and their biographical narrations Stephan, Viola The effect of the very distant past for migrants: an Armenian family in 72 Germany Stepick, Alex, Carol Dutton Stepick This land is our land- 73 Natives and immigrants staking urban claims Tiesler, Nina Clara Muslim groups in Portugal: family histories, collective subjectivity and 74 distinct perceptions of belonging Tonah, Steve The democratization process and the resurgence of ethnic politics in Ghana 75 (1992-2006) Vajda, Júlia The Shoah's presence in the life-stories of the survivor's grandchildren 76 Varjonen, Sirkku Socio-cultural belonging in the life stories of immigrants in Finland 77 Semenova, Victoria Migrant’s children: next generation of migrants in multicultural society 78 Virkama, Anna Socio-cultural belongings of Moroccan degree students in Finland and 80 France Vysotskaya, Volha Should we stay or should we go: migration plans and return intentions of 81 the highly skilled workers Winkel, Heidemarie Shifting boundaries of the self: 82 Arab Christian women between collective belonging and individual notions of identity Witte, Nicole, Christine Mueller-Botsch Biographical Interviewing 83 Wundrak, Rixta Chinese migrant-networks in Bucharest 84 Yi, Hee-Young Political identity and cultural belonging of North Korean refugees in South 85 Korea Zaslavsky, Tatyana, Tamar Horowitz Young non-Jewish immigrants in Israel 86 Zimowska, Agnieszka At the intersections of assignations and self positioning – 87 Polish migrants in German sex business Session: Looking back to Collective Belongings in the Past? Estonian Russians` life stories from the prism of frame analyses Dr.Soc.Sc. Aili Aarelaid-Tart Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Tallinn University Narva road 25 10120 Estonia [email protected] Manifestation of cultural trauma as a discourse of Estonian Russians´could be named the “Fall of the Dreamland”. Among the other post-Socialist biographical discourses in Estonia it is the most current and most painful, and, more importantly, it is yet in its stage of maturing. The last feature strongly relies on the fact that Russia has never acknowledged the occupation of the Baltic states in 1944 and on the international level wishes to depict the Russian population staying in Estonia and Latvia as victims of ethnic discrimination. The Estonian Russians’ stormy and controversial search for identity began at the same time as the Estonians’ mass mobilisation for restoring their national independence in 1988 thus a more detailed mapping of this discourse is still a work in progress.Based on 43 biographies discourse