{"id":7469,"date":"2025-11-21T14:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibs.ee\/from-mono-to-stereo-ibss-proposal-at-the-integration-conference\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:31:48","slug":"from-mono-to-stereo-ibss-proposal-at-the-integration-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibs.ee\/en\/from-mono-to-stereo-ibss-proposal-at-the-integration-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"From mono to stereo: IBS\u2019s proposal at the Integration Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibs.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/32-1594x1127.png\" alt=\"The current image has no alternative text. The file name is: 32.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-el\">Every November brings an important gathering for everyone who works on making sense of integration in Estonia. At this year\u2019s Integration Conference, Kristjan Kaldur, Head of Migration and Integration Research Programme at the Institute of Baltic Studies, spoke about what it means to have a sense of belonging without a passport, and how the way we <em>name<\/em> groups of people shapes who we \u201csee\u201d in society at all. His presentation drew on a recent study on the attitudes, identities and barriers to acquiring citizenship among people with undefined citizenship living in Estonia \u2013 i.e. the stateless people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-el\">The study shows that people with undefined citizenship are not a homogeneous grey mass, but fall into several identity groups \u2013 from those who feel a strong sense of belonging to Estonia, to those whose identity is more borderline or fragmented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-el\"><strong><strong>\u201cRussian-speaking Estonian\u201d does not fit into Excel, but lives in real life<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-el\">We saw that if we offer people with undefined citizenship only the classic monoethnic group labels \u2013 such as Estonian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and so on \u2013 we receive in return the same black-and-white, and in many ways colour-blind, categories. But when we give respondents the option to choose, alongside these, other more flexible categories, we see a remarkable shift: three quarters of respondents abandon their monoethnic category and instead choose a hybrid group label, such as \u201cRussian-speaking Estonian\u201d (38%) or \u201cEstonian Russian\u201d (19%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-el\">The results therefore show that a significant share of people with undefined citizenship have adopted an \u201cEstonian\u201d marker or attribute and feel that Estonia is <em>also their <\/em>homeland. The results also indicate that they express their passive loyalty to the Estonian state precisely by <em>not taking up<\/em> another country\u2019s citizenship. At the same time, however, they feel rejected, disappointed and drained of hope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-el\">Kristjan emphasised that the decision to apply for citizenship therefore does not depend only on language skills or the ability to pass an exam, but also on whether a person feels genuinely wanted and treated fairly in Estonia. The question posed to the Estonian state and its institutions at the conference was therefore twofold: how to lower practical barriers (information, exams, bureaucracy) and, at the same time, how to use categories and language that do not push people\u2019s identities to the margins, but instead help them feel part of Estonia\u2019s \u201cwe\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-el\"><strong><strong>Estonia\u2019s \u201cwe\u201d is broader than our integration policy dares to admit<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-el\">In other words: the way we measure identities produces the identities we end up seeing. If we design policies solely on the basis of monoethnic categories, we are in fact reading the room wrong. And by misreading it, we amplify narratives that are not true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-el\">So if, as a state, we were able to see beyond mono-identities (Estonian, Russian, Ukrainian and so on) and recognise the hybrid identities behind them, it would be as revolutionary as the shift in the world of sound from mono to stereo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-el\">You can read more in the study report that formed the basis for the conference presentation here (in Estonian): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibs.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/Maaratlemata-kodakondsusega-isikud-uuringuaruanne.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.ibs.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/Maaratlemata-kodakondsusega-isikud-uuringuaruanne.pdf<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-el\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every November brings an important gathering for everyone who works on 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