ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the concept of multicultural identities at a time when the debate about citizenship, migrants, and identity has become strongly polarized in the Netherlands, across Europe, and globally. A case study is presented illustrating the tensions of multiple belongings in multicultural identities and how relational and dialogical interventions may be used to refind focus while shifting from the personal through the social to the global layers of identity. A developmental model of intercultural sensitivity is presented, and it is argued that it is important to develop an understanding of the multiplicity of multicultural identities that transcend traditional ingroup/out-group thinking patterns towards thinking in multiple belongings and loyalties in liquid modern societies (Bauman, 2000). This chapter concludes with some thoughts about the kind of leadership that is needed in the evolving complexity of post-modern global societies.
