The phrase "a struggle for recognition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where individuals or groups are seeking acknowledgment or validation for their efforts, contributions, or identity.
Example: "The artist's journey was marked by a struggle for recognition in a competitive industry."
Alternatives: "a fight for acknowledgment" or "a quest for validation."
Gay Americans who visit Canada to marry may revel in their newfound status there, but they will come home to a confusing patchwork of overlapping jurisdictions and competing laws and are likely to face a struggle for recognition, legal experts say.
This is "a struggle against the misrecognition of others at the same time that it is a struggle for recognition of oneself by others" (Course of Recognition, 258).
As experiences of misrecognition violate the identity of subjects, the affected are supposed to be particularly motivated to resist, that is, to engage in a "struggle for recognition".
Analysing ethnographic material, we study how accountants engage in a struggle for recognition in a context where tensions emerge from the confrontation between idealised occupational aspirations and situated possibilities.
Often enough, it is argued, the (violent) behavior of states cannot be reductively understood as a merely instrumental striving for ever more power but should (at least also) be perceived as a struggle for recognition (see the contributions in Lindemann/Ringmar 2011 and O'Neill/Smith 2012, part III).
SEOUL, South Korea ― The escalating crisis on the Korean Peninsula is the result of two men of braggadocio engaged in a struggle for recognition.
The six-year career of the Bāb, who had popular support, was marked by a struggle for official recognition and by a series of imprisonments.
For the expanding community of Chinese teaching professionals who are involved with innovative pedagogy, however, there remains a struggle for academic recognition of new practice and a problematic trajectory to legitimate professional participation and leadership.
For the indigenous Ranquel (pronounced Ran-KEL), the scene is charged with many emotions, and offers a glimpse of their resurgence amid a long struggle for recognition after centuries of hardship and loss.
The Ismailis, widely reviled as heretics by Sunni Muslims both here and abroad, see the oppressed Christians of ancient Najran as their literal and figurative ancestors in a continuing struggle for recognition by the Saudi state.
With sex being arguably the world's favourite pastime, asexuals face an uphill struggle for recognition.
