The National Majority as a Local Minority: National identity, dominance, and the minority experience in the majority-minority city
This dissertation engages with the implications of an important demographic transformation of our time, namely demographic shifts across large and mid-sized European cities where the population without a migration background – dominant at the national level – becomes a local numerical minority. These so-called majority-minority cities provide a site where the relationship between the national context and the local majority-minority context people without a migration background live in is important for how they live as local minorities. Using a variety of data sources and methods, this dissertation seeks to answer the research question: ‘What is the interplay between the nationally dominant position and the local numerical minority position of people without a migration background living in majority-minority Western European cities?’ This dissertation makes use of three datasets collected within the framework of the BaM project, and one external dataset. Firstly, a merged dataset with survey data collected in six majority-minority European cities (chapters 2 and 4) is used. Additionally, this dissertation makes use of qualitative interviews among people without a migration background living in majority-minority neighbourhoods in Malmö, Sweden (chapter 3). This dissertation also uses data collected from a survey experiment in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Lastly, this dissertation uses data from the nationally representative LISS panel.