Title: Reluctant victims into challengers - narratives of a Kurdish political generation in diaspora in Sweden
Author: Zettervall, Charlotta
Place of publication: Sweden
Publisher: Lund University
Release date: 2013

The present thesis deals with questions of how national identities are created and maintained in diasporic settings. More precisely, it concerns how the Kurdish national identities are constructed and are maintained in a political generation of Kurds who are residing in Sweden. In some respects, their stories are shared by many other people. Over and over again in history it has happened that generations take shape that resist the political and social conditions of their time, actively take part in contemporary social processes, and resist and organize protests politically and symbolically. Their repertoire of actions can be considered as representing responses to overall historical and social processes, and as challenging and aspiring to change existing conditions in society.[1]