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Analyzes white identity formations at a series of European folkdance camps in the US to shed light on the performative character of white ethnicity as opposed to other ethnic identities. It is argued that there is no authentic white identity; rather, identity formation occurs in specific contexts & is articulated through communicative cultural practices. It is shown that the framework of transnationalism at the folkdance camps sheds light on how identity, culture, & community formations are reconfigured across time, space, & economic structures. It is maintained that people purposely construct public cultures to develop community formation through cultural practices, eg, dancing, which are reinscribed with new meaning in the US context. The concept of imagined communities is discussed, noting that persons in the same social time/space imagine themselves in & out of ambivalent communities. Analysis supports the contention that a multiplicity of white identities are conceptualized in specific cultural contexts. Implications for intercultural communication are considered. 30 References. J. Lindroth

While these lines were written, Taliban were conquering Afghanistan, establishing a regime of terror in the country, while concurrently provoking a wide conflict in the Western public sphere about responsibilities and consequences of this situation. More specifically, Europe witnesses a racist and xenophobic wave of discourses against a new possible escape of refugees toward Europe; presently such discourses abound in politics and the media. It is more than a truism nowadays that, in crisis-stricken Europe, there is an increasing politicization of migration, which takes place against the background and mutual overlapping of diverse crises. More specifically, migration has become a focal and quite polarizing issue in the European public sphere especially since the numbers of refugees, escaping from conflict territories of the Middle East (e. g., Syria), crossing the Mediterranean, dramatically increased starting in 2014 (Bevelander & Wodak, 2019a). The so-called "refugee crisis," as this movement was portrayed by mainstream media and powerful political figures in Europe (Krzyżanowski, Triandafyllidou, & Wodak, 2018), contributed to social and economic tensions (such as the Eurozone "debt crisis") that took place in the European Union and played into Brexit that followed.