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Marginal Utility
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Migrant Citizenship in EU-Regions
Institute for Work and Technology
Saskia Dankwart, Anita Pöltl
Agenda:
• Introduction
• Process of Identification
• Contributions of Migrants in Their Respective Host Society
• Importance for a Dialogue with the EU
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Introduction
• Migration as a result of globalization
• Migrants might lose their identity
• Question: What is the potential of Migrants in companies and
society?
• Before: Migrants have to rebuild an identity in their new
home country. But how do we build an identity in a new
place?
 Place Identity
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Agenda:
• Introduction
• Process of Identification
• Contributions of Migrants in Their Respective Host Society
•Importance for a Dialogue with the EU
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Identity
• How can identity be understood in this context?
• C. F. Graumann: On multiple Identies, 1983
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Processes of Identification - Graumann
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Agenda:
• Introduction
• Process of Identification
• Contributions of Migrants in Their Respective Host Society
•Importance for a Dialogue with the EU
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Advantages of migrants in their respective host society
Function/field Culture
Politics
Economy
Contingency
Function
Norms
Laws, Positions
Social Capital
Middleman
Function
Culture
Associations,
Gastronomy
Minorities,
‘ambassadors‘
Trade,
remittancies
Problem solving
Innovation
Political
organizations
Ethnic
Entrepreneurship
Strategic Function Multilingualism
Diversification
Function
Film, music,
literature
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Agenda:
• Introduction
• Process of Identification
• Contributions of Migrants in Their Respective Host Society
• Importance for a Dialogue with the EU
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How can the EU respond?
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Thank you for your attention!
Saskia Dankwart
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Sources:
• Graumann, C. F. (1983): On Multiple Identities. In:
International Social Science Journal, H. 35, S. 309–321.
• Weichhart, Peter (Hg.) (1990): Raumbezogene
Identität. Bausteine zu einer Theorie räumlich-sozialer
Kognition und Identifikation. Stuttgart: Steiner
(Erdkundliches Wissen, 102).
• Werthmöller, Ewald (1995): Räumliche Identität als
Aufgabenfeld des Städte- und Regionenmarketing. Ein
Beitrag zur Fundierung des Placemarketing. Univ.,
Diss.- Münster (Westfalen), 1994. Frankfurt am Main:
Lang (Schriften zu Marketing und Management, 24).
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