ABSTRACT
A point that needs to be clarified is why the focus is on mixed ethnic individuals. After a thorough literary search, only three academic works on the subject in Norway were found, one of which is a sociological master's degree paper on identity development, the second is an article on mixed ethnic individuals' performance in school and the third is author's own work. This chapter argues that a focus on mixed ethnic individuals is a topic that needs to be investigated. It tries to connect this to author's other research questions. The chapter concerns staking out some tentative lines of inquiry as well as some remarks that could serve. It returns in more detail to some of these issues later when looking at the current situation in the field of mixed racial studies, as well as the state-of-the-art within Nordic research on racialized minorities.
