SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE

The article focuses on everyday nationalism and its multifacetted connections to symbolic violence exercised by natives in relationship to migrants in eight European countries. The analysis draws on focus group interviews conducted with migrants in England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Cyprus, Sweden - within a comparative project sponsored by the EU between 2002 and 2006, and bearing the title: 'The European Dilemma: Institutional Patterns and Politics of Racial Discrimination'.