Contesting Kurdish Indentities in Sweden: Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1: The Kurdish Diaspora and the Retreat of Multiculturalism in Western Europe -- Introduction -- Kurdish Immigration and Swedish Immigrant Policy -- Curing Multiculturalism with National Identity and Core Values -- Researching Identity Formation among Kurdish Youth in Diaspora -- Overview of the Book -- CHAPTER 2: Kurdish Identities and Political Struggle in the Middle East -- Introduction -- Kurds of Turkey -- Kurds of Iran -- Kurds of Iraq -- Kurds of Syria -- CHAPTER 3: Theorizing Belonging and Citizenship in Ethnically Divided Societies -- Introduction -- Postcolonial Subjectivity -- Immigrants and Modes of Accommodationto Exclusionary Citizenship Regimes -- The Politics of Belonging, Identity Formation, and Citizenship -- The Gendered and Sexual Frontiers of the Nation -- CHAPTER 4: Historical Injustices, Uneven Nationalisms, and Reproduction of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Diaspora -- Introduction -- "I have not come to Sweden to become Swedish but to continue being Kurdish" -- The Politics of Denial and Recognition in Everyday Life: "Where the hell is Kurdistan?" -- Contesting Islam as a Kurdish Identity: "Saladin did nothing for the Kurds" -- Conceiving Statelessness and Claiming Statehood -- CHAPTER 5: Unequal Citizenship, Home(land)s, and Strategies of Dealing with Ethnic Discrimination in Sweden -- Introduction -- "Swedes see me only as Swedish on paper and not as Swedish Swedish" -- Denial of Belonging and Citizenship Rights through Stigmatization -- Ethnicizing Representation and Public Success -- Imagining Home(land)s in Diaspora: "I feel like a stranger in my homeland" -- A Hierarchical Swedish Citizenship and Its Unrealized Promises -- Dealing with Ethnic Discrimination and Racism.

CHAPTER 6: Orientalization of the Kurds and Reproduction of Colonial Categorization by Kurdish Youth in Sweden -- Introduction -- "Dangerous" Immigrant Men and "Imperiled" Immigrant Women -- Kurdish Youth and "Honor Killing": Narratives of Ethnic Stigmatization -- Undoing Stereotypical Representations of Kurds in Sweden -- Self-Orientalization and Internal Otherization among Kurdish Youth -- Marriage as a Racial, Cultural, and Political Boundary -- CHAPTER 7: Conclusion: The Struggle for Social Justice and Citizenship Rights -- Introduction -- Long-Distance Nationalisms and Statelessness -- Defining the Boundary of the Nation in Diaspora -- Homelands and Political Inclusion -- Challenging Orientalist Representations and Cultural Otherness -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index.

Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden sheds light on the day-to-day strategies of accommodation and resistance that Kurdish youth use in the face exclusive narratives and structures of belonging and citizenship regimes in the Middle-East and Sweden.

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