Divided across Borders: The Impacts of the Creation of States on Indigenous Peoples and Their Rights in Northern Europe (original) (raw)
2024, Changing Borders and Challenging Belonging Policy Change and Private Experience by Georg Grote and Andrea Carlà (eds)
https://doi.org/10.3726/b18969
This chapter challenges belonging and borders from a decolonial perspective by focusing on the impact of the creation of states on the Indigenous Sámi people in the three Nordic States (Norway, Sweden and Finland) and the Russian Federation. In this frame, it aligns with the arguments of this volume’s editors that not only borders and identities are socially constructed concepts but also human societies are much more complex than the idea, or the ideal, of a nation-state, being rather characterized by diversity and multiple identities. This, however, does not mean that borders, in the legal and political sense, have not affected or do not impact peoples’ daily lives. This is particularly evident in the case of Indigenous Peoples, such as the Sámi, who live across national frontiers, and, as the volume editors argue, enter those power dynamics and processes of inclusion and exclusion that are present in all types of borders.
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