What is it about?
The identity of Latvian Old Believer youth forms and develops in a local cultural context, and is affected by the social change. The qualitative data collected during the fieldwork provided a useful resource for an analysis of belonging, the crucial factor in the formation of identity for Old Believer youth. As the voices of young people in this study reveal, three types of belonging characterize Old Believer youth: their ethnicity, which interacts with national belonging in a complex way; the local belonging, which is stronger than the global one; the European belonging, which conflicts with national belonging and ethnicity.
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Why is it important?
The analysis is based on the findings of ethnographic research conducted in the Old Believer youth group in Daugavpils (Latvia) within a framework of the international project “Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe’s Future” (CHIEF).
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The dissatisfaction of Old Believer youth with economic and political aspects of the European Union, which are not facilitating rapid growth in the well-being of the inhabitants of Latvia, create hurdles to the development of their European identity, as the respondents do not clearly sense themselves to be European.
Prof. Anita Stasulane
Daugavpils Universitate
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This page is a summary of: Identity Multiplicity in an Ethnic and Religious Minority in Latvia: Old Believer Youth, Frontiers in Sociology, March 2021, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.641622.
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