Publications

Publication details [#57705]

Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga, Sirkku Varjonen and Linda Arnold. 2013. ‘We’re Finns here, and Russians there’: A longitudinal study on ethnic identity construction in the context of ethnic migration. Discourse & Society 24 (1) : 110–134.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | functions of language | identity negotiation | language use | migration

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses how ethnic Finnish migrants negotiate their ethnic identities before and after migrating from Russia to Finland via three major interpretative repertoires -the biological, the socialization and the intergroup relations repertoires -, and what social functions these constructions serve over the course of migration.