ABSTRACT
The chapter focuses on how during a particular historical period, Lithuanians migrating to Iceland became racialized as non-white. It demonstrates the complexities of racism, as racism intersects with various social identifications and economic markers. Even though some bodies are more likely to be seen as white and consequently invisible as a racial group in the European context, whiteness is not self-evident. Visibility and invisibility of certain groups as racialized subjects must be contextualized locally, as intersecting with various markers and historical circumstances, such as economic precarity. During the economic boom period in the early 21st century in Iceland, Lithuanians were made visible as racial group through stereotypes, then as different from native Icelanders and from other European migrants in Iceland.
