“You are the Greenlandic one”. Saisir la place de la région d’origine dans la production de l’autochtonie chez les étudiant·e·s groenlandais·e·s au Danemark

Abstract

Relying on daily minorization experiences of students from Greenland studying in Denmark, I will examine the way the placing of a territorial stigma and its negotiation is taking part in the making of a tensioning indigeneity. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, showing how a chromatic national order is daily performed between Denmark and Greenland through negative views of the students’ home region, contributing to racialization processes. Second, I will highlight the differential of individual resources in responding to the stigmatization. Consequently, I stress that it is necessary to not take the category « indigenous peoples » as given, but at the contrary, to think indigeneity as a dynamic social location, depending on contexts, class, race, and gender parameters, but also on personal trajectories of individuals.

Keywords

• indigeneity
• stigmatization
• territorial stigma
• nation
• racialization
• students