Claiming the right to belong:De-stigmatisation strategies among Turkish-Dutch Muslims

This article examines ‘de-stigmatisation strategies’ of Turkish-Dutch youth. Our in-depth interviews and observations revealed three strategies to negotiate belonging in the Netherlands, particularly to resist dominant Dutch characterisations of Turks and Muslims as backwards, disloyal and unintegrated: (1) confronting by asserting their right to cultural distinctiveness, (2) convincing by relocating cultural achievements in their heritage, and (3) contextualising : embracing ideological and political positions calibrated to country-specific contexts. We found that students’ de-stigmatisation... Mehr ...