National identity and otherness in Greek speakers' talk about immigration: Methodological and trans-disciplinary reflections
National identity and otherness in Greek speakers' talk about immigration: Methodological and trans-disciplinary reflections

Author(s): Maria Xenitidou
Subject(s): Sociology, Methodology and research technology, Nationalism Studies, Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: national identity; otherness; Greek speakers; migrations; methodology;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present the potential contribution of using Critical Discursive Psychology to study national identity and immigration. It draws upon a study on Greek national identity negotiations in relation to immigration. The study was guided by the perspective of banal nationalism which treats national identity as a form of life in a world divided into nation states (Billig, 1995). In terms of Greek national identity and immigration, the study drew similarities between the perspective of banal nationalism and the critique of methodological nationalism (Wimmer and Schiller, 2002).

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