The purpose of this study is to explore the ways Greek born, permanent residents in the UK (Greek diaspora in the UK), experience their a) Greek, b) British and/or c) Greek diasporised cultural identities in relation to integration and social cohesion within the host culture.
Thirty in depth interviews have been conducted and analysed through interpretative phenomenology revealing multi-layered experience of multicultural identity through six certain and distinct ways involving constant negotiation between the Greek cultural origin of homeland, the British culture, along with the Greek diasporised culture. A rather unanticipated finding relates with participants’ almost unanimous hesitation in belonging or committing to British national identity which paradoxically co-exists with their undisputed active and productive contribution towards social cohesion among British society.
Meet our speaker and chair
Dr Athanasia Chalari is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University whereas previously she has worked at Manchester University, LSE and the University of Northampton as Head of Sociology . Her area of expertise associates with the Sociology of the Individual, Identities, Social Crisis and Change and Modern Greek Society. She has conducted research as Visiting Research Fellow at the HO-LSE, University of Tokyo, University of Toronto and York University in Canada. She is the author of several books, book chapters and journal articles, and an expert evaluator for the European Commission - Marie Curie/Horizon research projects.
Professor Vassilis Monastiriotis is Director, Hellenic Observatory Centre; Eleftherios Venizelos Chair of Contemporary Greek Studies, Professor of Political Economy.
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