This paper critically examines ‘everyday’ cosmopolitanist approaches to migrants’ social relationships to call for a more nuanced understanding of how ethnicity may inform cosmopolitan ties and aspirations. Research on migrants’ everyday cosmopolitanism tends to either focus on individuals’ engagement with ethnic difference, or highlight commonalities that unite people across ethnic boundaries,...

The current study examines how subjective pain reporting is influenced by the concordant and discordant nature of the ethnic identities of pain expressers (participants) and pain assessors (experimenters). Three discomfort conditions that varied in stimuli intensity (Study 1: mild pain; Study 2: severe pain), and distraction components (Study 3) were used to assess whether pain intensity and to...

This paper points up a number of issues concerning the topic of identity, to stimulate further debate and discussion without, however, solving any of the intellectual and practical problems that are inherent in this subject. It dwells on some conceptual matters and also describes some current policy and legal developments that have important implications for the way in which we understand ident...

This article (part of a special section on South Asian border studies) is an exploration multi-religious ethnic group in the borderland district Poonch Jammu and Kashmir, India. The work focuses Pahari ethnicity looks at how prominent religious identities within this have been continuously aligning themselves along lines post-partition era. Partition Indian subcontinent 1947 acted as major disr...

The multivalence of interpretations identity depends on the context consideration. primordialist approach to explaining is gradually giving way a constructivist in which seen as social construct. "Multiple" means transcending one's ethnoculture and diffusing original identities. It almost impossible create stable "map identities," but more important ...