Belonging and the Icelandic others: Situating Icelandic identity in a postcolonial context

Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 57-71

  Loftsdóttir, Kristín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

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