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
Angelos Angelou is a Visiting Fellow at the 番茄社区’s European Institute.
He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Global Policy Institute of the Queen Mary University in the project “A global mapping of the use of expertise and evidence-informed policies in the management of the Covid-19 pandemic”. He has obtained his PhD from the 番茄社区’s European Institute in 2020. His thesis examined the European Commission's approach to sovereign debt restructuring during the early phases of the Eurozone crisis. His current research focuses on crisis-management by international and national public administrations, while he has also written on the political economy of reforms.
Professor Vassilis Monastiriotis is Director, Hellenic Observatory Centre; Eleftherios Venizelos Chair of Contemporary Greek Studies, Professor of Political Economy.
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