Political debates about international terrorism have stressed the dangers of identity polarisation in opposition to the surrounding society. While studies have demonstrated that connections to home countries foster cohesion in diasporic communities (Erol 2012), it is still unclear whether internal social cohesion distances these communities from the society around them or encourages relations to and exchanges with it. Calls for more research on this issue stem from ongoing public discussions, including the extent to which ethnic minorities’ access to their original culture implies a closing off from or opening up to society at large. A world characterised by migration, transnational networks and global flows, as well as by a reorientation of migration and integration policies, implies new conditions for identity-formation, and music will continue to be an important way for immigrants and refugees to negotiate and develop their identities in their new setting.Įthnic identify formation among immigrants is a recurrent theme within broader debates on issues such as migration, integration, and social cohesion. The paper concludes by stressing the importance of further studies on identity formation in diaspora, not least about diasporic consciousness as a resource and restriction in the social positioning and orientation of groups. The review finds that the literature stresses four particular areas: context (the diasporic situation) space for recognition and resistance time and memory to allow identity maintenance and transformation and politics (social subordination or resistance). Through a systematic review of academic articles published in the last 20 years, this paper investigates the role of music in cultural identity formation among ethnic groups. This paper focuses on how ethnic identities and cultures are maintained and transformed in diasporic situations, namely though music. The relation between immigrant groups and the larger society has come to the fore, and different strategies have been proposed for how to better integrate immigrants in their new surroundings.

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