The Catch 22 of Categorization: Soviet Jews, Caucasus Jews, and Dilemmas of Multiculturalism in Israel

In his article “The Politics of Recognition” Taylor (1992) argued that “. . . our identity is partly shaped by recognition or its absence . . . non-recognition or misrecognition can inflect harm, can be a form of oppression, imprisoning someone in a false, distorted, and reduced mode of living” (p. 25). But what exactly is misrecognition and non-recognition at the level of groups and how does this process develop?