Interdisciplinary in perspective, this book explores contemporary struggles

around ‘identity politics’ in Europe, offering a unique glimpse into contem-
porary tensions and paradoxes surrounding identities, belonging, exclu-
sions and their deep-seated gendered, colonial and racist legacies. With a

particular focus on the Nordic region, it provides insights into the ways in
which people who find themselves in minoritized positions struggle against

multiple injustices. Through a series of case studies documenting counter-
struggles against racist, colonialist, sexist forms of discrimination and exclu-
sion, Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe asks how the paradigm

and politics of the welfare state operate to discriminate against the most mar-
ginalized, by instating a naturalized hierarchy of human-ness. As such it will

appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities with interests
in race, gender, colonialism and postcolonialism, citizenship and belonging.