TY - T1 - Claims to a nation, dressing the part and other boundary making strategies by skilled migrants in response to ethnic categorization SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/328804 T3 - A1 - Koskela, Kaisu A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - This article is about self-defined social identities, other people's perceptions of us and the potentially conflictual relationship between these two. Building on a Barthian focus on group boundaries, the article takes the interplay between external categorizations and internal group definitions as its point of departure to examine how individuals negotiate the boundaries of their social identities. Based on a case study of skilled migrants with racialized ethnicities in Finland, I look at how t... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 5141 Sociology; Skilled migrants; categorization; boundary making; identity negotiations; ethnicity; gender differences; IMMIGRANTS; MIGRATION; PERSPECTIVES N1 - PP - ER -