Kanak Identity, New Citizenship Building and Reconciliation

Citizenship Identity and Social Inequality

Citizenship identity depends not only on a legal status, but essentially on access to social and economic resources. Thus, citizenship identity, the sense of belonging and solidarity, is necessarily connected with the problem of unequal distribution of resources in society. Modern conception of universal citizenship, specially when it is combined with extreme inequality and poverty, tends to ex...

Citizenship-as-Identity in British political discourse: New Labour and the UK Citizenship test

Citizenship and Identity in Diverse Societies

This article examines the relationship between the legal status of citizenship and psychological research about blended identity in diverse societies such as Australia. A blended identity could include Australian national identity as well as other identities relevant to a person’s selfdefinition. Analysing the link between citizenship law and the psychological enjoyment of blended identity is i...

Childhood sexual abuse and adult sexual health among indigenous Kanak women and non-Kanak women of New Caledonia.

OBJECTIVES Few studies have addressed the long-term consequences of adverse childhood experiences among women in Oceania, in particular among indigenous women. This paper aims to report prevalences of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and to asses the negative sexual health consequences in adulthood by comparing indigenous Kanak to non-Kanak women in New Caledonia. METHODS Data come from a populat...

Postcolonial Citizenship and Identity in the Netherlands and France