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Reconceptualising the Migrant: The Non-Binary Nature of Sociocultural Identities and Interactions book cover

1st Edition

Reconceptualising the Migrant The Non-Binary Nature of Sociocultural Identities and Interactions

By Doğa Atalay Copyright 2027
142 Pages
by Routledge

This book highlights the impact of migrant self-narratives and the non-binary nature of sociocultural identities on everyday social interactions, demonstrating how meaningful relationships emerge not from predetermined social categories, but through shared experiences, common interests, and everyday encounters. Migration has traditionally been understood through fixed categories such as... Read more

Introduction: Rethinking Integration  1. Rethinking Integration: From Measurement to Meaningful Social Interaction  2. Living Together: Conviviality, Interaction, and the Making of Everyday Belonging  3. Narratives, Self-Narratives and Resilience  4. Transnational Communities, Belongingness and Social Inclusion  5. When the interaction occurs  Conclusion

Biography

Doğa Atalay is a researcher specialising in migration, belonging, identity, social inclusion, and resilience. He received his PhD in Social Sciences from Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. His research examines everyday social interactions between different societal groups in different contexts, drawing on qualitative research conducted across Europe. He has worked on several UK- and EU-funded research projects and has published in leading international journals, including Politics, Groups, and Identities, Ethnicities, and Sociology Compass, on migration, identity, conviviality, de-radicalisation, and social inclusion.

'Grounded in rich qualitative research across Europe, the book shifts attention from fixed social categories to the self-narratives people construct, revealing how everyday encounters foster more inclusive societies. This is a timely and important contribution for everyone concerned with polarisation, extremism, and the erosion of social cohesion.’


Umut Korkut, Professor of International Politics, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.

‘Doğa Atalay’s study provides an essential contribution to migration studies, belonging, and social inclusion through its impressive range of case studies and important theoretical contributions. Drawing on the concept of non-binary performance from gender theory to explore migrant belonging, the author offers important insights into the ways migrants both integrate into and maintain identities beyond the societies in which they settle.’


Stephen W. Sawyer, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies, American University of Paris, France.

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