Where Are You From?

Kapleu Lemegne Dina Sintia
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Kapleu Lemegne Dina Sintia: Research Fellow at Breach Builders

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2024, vol. 8, issue 12, 2553-2560

Abstract: In the middle of the African diaspora, identities relativise, and the notion of belonging takes another tone. What was concrete in these terms in the home country becomes abstract in the foreign land; however, caution! Either stereotypes or history of fact holds. The question “Where are you from?†translates in the home country in terms of ethnic differences takes the form of country belonging when asked in a foreign land. It embraces the idea of recognition, belonging and remembrance. Out of a banal and unconscious habitus, the land becomes the most robust expression of identity, which Merga Yonas Bula (2023) resumed in terms of “nationality-based collective identity†and “ethnonational-based collective identity†, which, of course, can either be any of these or both; out of which burnt the need of identity recognition and acceptance.

Date: 2024
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