Projekt

One of the most relevant challenges for European societies is to avoid the isolation, separation or withdrawal of groups from mainstream society. Contemporary events show that minorities in Europe can be marginalized in European society, and that this can make them prone to adopting separatist attitudes and beliefs (which may in turn facilitate the adoption of radical ideologies). The project investigates the importance of misrecognition in this process. Recognition is defined as the extent to which members of minorities feel that they are viewed by others as belonging to the nation. The project strives to understand the experiences which give rise to the sense of misrecognition and, more particularly, the role that surveillance plays in this. Moreover, it wants to understand the consequences of a state of misrecognition. When does it lead to a sense of estrangement whereby minority group members withdraw from participation and cooperation with others in the national community and with national authorities? When does it lead to becoming actively anti-community and anti-authority? The focus will be on two significant minorities in different regions of the European Union: Muslims in the West and Roma people in the East. Recent models of intergroup relations are applied to address these questions. Estrangement and radicalization are regarded as arising out of interactions between minority groups and authorities. A multi-method approach is used to study these issues combing methods of experimentation and ethnography of everyday experience with interviews and surveys. Research is conducted in four Western European countries (Germany, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France) and three Eastern European countries (Hungary, Serbia, and Romania).

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Zick

  Universität Bielefeld
  Fakultät für Erziehungswissenschaft
  Institut für Interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und
  Gewaltforschung
  X-Gebäude E1-270
  Bielefeld
  

• Prof. Dr. Bertjan Doosje

  University of Amsterdam (UvA)
  Social Psychology
  Amsterdam
  Niederlande
  

• Dr. Anna Kende

  Eötvös Loránd University
  Institute of Psychology
  Department of Social Psychology
  Budapest
  Ungarn
  

• Prof. Dr. Stephen Reicher

  University of St. Andrews
  School of Psychology and Neuroscience
  St Andrews
  Grossbritannien
  

• Prof. Dr. Nick Hopkins

  University of Dundee
  School of Social Sciences
  Psychology
  Dundee
  Grossbritannien
  

• Prof. Dr. Andreea Ernst-Vintila

  Université Paris Quest Nanterre
  La Défense - Paris 10
  Social Sciences and Administration
  Parisian Research Centre in Social Psychology
  Nanterre
  Frankreich