Strategies in "cross-cultural" dealings

rejecting or highlighting the matter of origin

Kirsten Lauritsen

pp. 3-17

in: Fred Dervin, Hanna Ragnarsdóttir (eds), Origins, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2014

Abstract

In the field of social sciences the past thirty years' increase in immigration in Norway has led to a renewed focus on matters of identity and origin. Matters of identity, origin and culture raise questions of who belongs to a given society or group and why.