The Place of Ethnic Identity Migration, Performativity and Ethnicised Bodies

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Politics of Citizenship and Migration

The Place of Ethnic Identity

Migration, Performativity and Ethnicised Bodies

Mariangela Veikou

Political Science / Public Policy / Immigration

This book draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork with Greek Albanian families to explore how ethnic identity is lived, embodied, and performed in everyday life. Inspired by performativity theory adapted to ethnic and migration studies, it reveals how belonging, difference, and social boundaries are continuously negotiated through ordinary everyday practices, relationships, and embodied experiences across Greece and Albania. This timely contribution to migration studies, anthropology, sociology, and ethnic studies illuminates the performative production of ethnic identity and offers a new perspective on ethnicity, embodiment, and identity as a relational process shaped by social norms, historical memory, migration, and transnational connections.  Through rich ethnographic examples, it shows how ordinary practices, including greetings, celebrations, self presentation, language use, become meaningful acts through which individuals and families negotiate inclusion, exclusion, and cultural belonging in contemporary Europe.

Mariangela Veikou is an engaged researcher with a background in the social sciences. Her work connects sociology, anthropology and political philosophy, specialising in questions of identity, inequalities, and citizenship, with particular attention to the lived experiences of racialised, ethnicised subjects and governance of diversity and exclusion. Her recent research looks at processes of digitalisation and automation reshaping these dynamics. Methodologically, her work is grounded in ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative inquiry, combined with critical discourse analysis.
 
She has been awarded several research projects and contributed as an expert to international research consortia funded by the European Social Fund, EU Framework Programmes, EU DG Justice, the European Institute at the London School of Economics, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS/KNAW). Her work has been published in interdisciplinary academic journals, including Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Journal of Civil Society, Qualitative Sociology Review, and Journal of the Balkans and Near Eastern Studies. She is also the co-editor of Automating Migration and Citizenship. Surveillance, Control and Critique, published by Palgrave Macmillan (2026). 

Publication Date: 30 August 2026
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 9783032317872
Format: Hardback

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