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- Björngren Cuadra, Carin
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Tandhygienisters arbete med patienter i ett mångkulturellt samhälle - en studie av migrationsrelaterade frågeställningar och samtal
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim is to illuminate aspects of dental hygienists' work in multiethnic/multicultural societies, with focus on the intersection between the institutional activity and migration, ethnic diversity and culture issues. Hence, a tension between equality and diversity are discussed. The thesis has two analytical approaches, practice and discourse. The focus is on talk-in-interaction with patients (practice) and how the dental hygienist conceptualise their work when treating people with migrant background (discourse). The theoretical and methodological considerations are drawn from the sociological tradition of "Verstehen", Foucault and discourse analysis. The empirical material is based on documented observations (VCR) and interviews with dental hygienists and patients. The analysis of practice suggests that the interaction is organised by the institutional activity type. A patient’s readiness to position oneself as a "knowing subject", opposed to ethnicity, is crucial to how the interaction is structured. Migration related categories and phenomenon are related to the institutional task and understood as situated including practices. In discourse, ethnicity intersects with gender and class. The patient's power resources are of vital importance in a discourse on "immigrant patients". The hygienists relates to culture, in terms of relationship with dental care. References in exclusionary discourses were also found. Based on multilayered findings and theories of multiculturalisms, the concept of culture is discussed in connection to agency, ethics of care and equal treatment.
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- Hydén, Sophie, 1973-, et al.
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Inre utlänningskontroll i polisarbete : mellan rättsstatsideal och effektivitet i Schengens Sverige
- 2004
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis analyses police officers' work with internal control of foreigners through a discussion of, among other things, the nation-state, rule of law ideals as well as the police profession and the conditions surrounding that profession. Internal control of foreigners, practised by police officers has two main aims: to control migration and to fight crime amongst people unauthorised to reside in the country. There has been a demand for increased efficiency in the internal control of foreigners, since Sweden joined the Schengen agreement. Police officers are now expected to be observant in all their work carried out, of the possibility that people they encounter are in the country without permission.The authors have accompanied police officers in Malmö and Stockholm in their work. They have also studied cases in the legal system and of the special board that handles cases of offences made by police officers. The authors discuss the importance of different factors to the police work on internal control of foreigners. Certain factors are more important than others and there is an interplay and reinforcement of some of these: the political and historical context, the discretion of the police, grey areas in the rules, the work tools of the police as well as inspection possibilities.A state of tension can be identified between the ideals of the nation-state and rule of law ideals. Several factors interplay to create a potential for and an apparent risk of ethnic discrimination in the police work on the internal control of foreigners. This study shows that the prerequisites necessary to perform the control efficiently, unerringly and with proper discretion are lacking. Police officers are put to the almost impossible task of determining who is in the country without permission.
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- Kiiskinen, Jenny, et al.
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Att dansa i otakt med väljarna : Socialdemokraternas och Moderaternas strategiska bemötande av Sverigedemokraterna
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Etablerade partiers strategiska bemötande av radikala högerpopulistiska partier (RHP-partier) står i fokus för avhandlingen. Syftet med avhandlingen är rekonstruktion och analys av innehållet i de etablerade partiernas strategiska bemötande av partier som anses utmana centrala principer inom den liberala demokratin, såsom pluralism och tolerans, och vars närvaro också anses skapa ett demokratiskt dilemma. Syftet har operationaliserats inom ramen för en svensk kontext med fokus på Socialdemokraternas och Moderaternas strategiska bemötande av ett svenskt RHP-parti i form av Sverigedemokraterna. Det metodologiska ramverket utgår från ett kvalitativt perspektiv med fokus på intervjuer med representanter för de två etablerade partierna och Sverigedemokraterna. Det empiriska materialet har analyserats med hjälp av PSO-teorin (Position, Salience and Owner-ship theory). Teorin visar hur de etablerade partiernas strategiska bemötande av RHP-partier kan relateras till l) den specifika sakfråga RHP-partiet politiserar och 2) till vilken grad RHP-partiet hotar de etablerade partierna i fråga om väljarstöd. Avhandlingens resultat visar att innehållet i de etablerade partiernas strategiska bemötande av Sverigedemokraterna har fOrändrats sedan valet 2006 och att den sakfråga som Sverigedemokraterna politiserat, flykting- och invandringsfrågan, är central för utformningen av de etablerade partiernas bemötande av partiet.
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- Lill, Linda
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Att göra etnicitet- inom äldreomsorgen
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertatian i concerned with the ways in which caregivers within elderly care reason and respond to questions concerning ethnicity. The research is based on a discursive analysis of a focus group study; interwiews with caregivers; and participant observation from fieldwork within one elderly care team. The main ambition is to present an alternative model for understanding how ethnicity becomes important in relation to care. A primary purpose it to place elderly care within a new theoretical perspective, particularly by shifting the focus from ethnicity per se to the relational aspect of constructions of ethnicity. I do that by showing how the ethnic dimension often is located in language use, in the relations created by various discourses and their institutional conditions. By applying the concept of doing to the analysis of ethnicity, I can show how ethnicity is a product of social interaction rather than a pre-defined role or mode of being. To do ethnicity in the context of care giving is to be assigned and take discursively created subject positions through the constant interactions of the workplace. Through such an analysis it becomes possible to understand ethnicity and ethnic relations as a continuous process revolving around the conceptions of each other's identities. By employing doing ethnicity as an analytical tool, it becomes possible to understand how caregivers, sometimes unwittingly, use ethnicity as a marker for thier constructions of care.
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- Lill, Linda
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Så görs etnicitet : äldreomsorgspersonal resonerar om etniska relationer
- 2005
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This text deals with the concept of ethnic relations in elderly care and the created meanings of ethnicity. A study is carried out through group discussions for elderly care staff and constitutes the empirical material. The thesis argues that (1) the concept of care is a discursive formation produced by ethical and moral values that form requirements for the caring subject to become respectable and how the caring work is to be correctly done. (2) Influenced by postcolonial theories of race and ethnicity, ethnic relations are seen as imaginative constructs through which we identify others and ourselves. This means that ethnicity is a social process constantly in movement where the meaning of self-identity is always a question of looking at the other. (3) The notion of identity is created via representations and seen as a product of social knowledge. (4) Doing gender has become a critical and widespread concept in feminist theory and gender research. The central argument of this text is to implement the research on the concept of ethnicity and thus allow for the idea of doing ethnicity. This analysis makes it possible to understand how ethnicity and ethnic relations are ongoing social processes through which notions of identity are formed. The discursive formations of care and the construction of the caring subject are mobilised to intersect with notions of gender and ethnicity. The elderly care staff consciously and unconsciously taps into these formations of exclusion and inclusion.
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- Ljungberg, Caroline
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Den svenska skolan och det mångkulturella : en paradox?
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The preoccupation of the study revolves around relations hetwecn everyday life in Swedish schools and the multicuiturai context of Swedish society. Based on fieldwork, media debates, analysis ofpolicy documents, discussions with teachers as weil as teacher's educators, and interviews with principals working in the elementary schools of Malmö, the dissertation explores three analytical arenas; schools as (re)producers of values and norms, Ihe mullicullural school and finally Ihe localions of schools in lime and space.The aim of the discussion conceming relations between the functions ofeducation in modem societies, and migration related issues and aspects ofmulticulturalism, is to highlight paradoxes in the mle of schoois. The policy documents specify certain goals of education, which are paradoxicallv caught between the ideals of a traditional understanding of modem ity and consequences of migration and globalisation.Schools and education in general, have a pivotal mle in Swedish society, not merely as mediators of knowledge, but also as (re)producers of systems of values and norms. These values and norms constitute what is acceptable in society. The scope for 'othemess' is restricted but also negotiable and changeable. Va lues and norms in the context of schools are often considered to be self-evident and are therefore not up for discussions or debates in everyday work ofteachers and principals. Some ofthese vaJues are so weil integrated in a 'common sense', that they be come invisibleand unconscious, The ambition of the dissertation is to make them visible - to formulate and analyse them - to make a further discussion possible.The study concJudes that the concept of critical multiculturalism could be useable for highlighting ideological aspecls andparadoxes of the school in Sweden today, The mle ofeducation should be discussed in the light ofrelations between individuals and groups in society, and with self-understanding as weil as, self-criticism as key aspects.
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- Malmsten, Jenny
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Den föreningsdrivna antirasismen i Sverige - Antirasism i rörelse
- 2007
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Syftet med avhandlingen är att genom det empiriska underlaget analysera antirasism som företeelse och utforska vad som är utmärkande för den form av antirasism som Antirasistiska filmdagar (ARF) och Arm i arm – 4:e initiativet (Arm i arm) representerar. ARF är en antirasistisk verksamhet som fokuserar på påverkansarbete och Arm i arm är en statlig satsning inom vilken 45 projekt erhållit medel för att bedriva antirasistiska verksamheter av olika slag. Dessa antirasistiska aktörer studeras utifrån teori, praktik och organisering för att belysa det jag kallar den föreningsdrivna antirasismen och jag visar också hur de antirasistiska aktörerna i denna studie förhåller sig till sina antirasistiska verksamheter. För att undersöka det utgår jag från några centrala teman som också utgör tre kapitel i avhandlingen: (1) Rasismens former och uttryck som handlar om vad antirasismen vill motverka, (2) Antirasism som företeelse som belyser antirasism utifrån såväl ett teoretiskt perspektiv som de antirasistiska aktörernas förhållningssätt i praktiken och (3) Antirasism som social arena som handlar om hur engagemanget kring antirasism organiseras. Genom teorier om det civila samhället och sociala rörelser diskuteras de antirasistiska aktörernas organisatoriska plattform och om de kan sägas vara en del av en antirasistisk rörelse. Med utgångspunkt i Meluccis rörelseteorier finns det aspekter som talar för det, men argumenten mot överväger, främst utifrån bakgrunden att de antirasistiska aktörerna saknar en tydligt identifierbar motståndare och istället agerar gentemot målgrupper. Det som utmärker den föreningsdrivna antirasismen är att den karaktäriseras av demokratiska arbetsformer, icke-våldsarbete och ett nära samarbete med stat och/eller kommun. Eftersom många aktiviteter är projektdrivna säkras kontinuiteten genom nätverk. Partipolitiskt går det inte att placera den föreningsdrivna antirasismen i något block utan de antirasistiska aktörerna samlas kring sakfrågan, antirasism.
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- Osanami Törngren, Sayaka
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Love ain't got no color? : Attitude toward interracial marriage in Sweden
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation focuses on the geographical area of Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden, and examines the majority society’s opinions and attitudes toward interracial dating, marriage and childbearing. The dissertation is driven by two theoretical frames: the theory of race as ideas constructed through the perception of visible differences and the theory of prejudice and stereotypes. Mixed methods have been chosen as a means of exploring people’s attitudes toward interracial relationships. Quantitative data was collected by means of an attitude survey and the qualitative data was collected by means of follow-up interviews with some of the respondents who participated in the survey. The study shows that although their attitudes vary depending on the different groups in question, the majority of the respondents and interviewees could imagine getting involved in interrelationships and would not react negatively if a family member got involved in such a relationship. The quantitative results address the importance of intimate contacts, in other words having friends of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds in having more positive attitudes toward interracial dating, marriage and childbearing. Age, gender, education and the place of upbringing also affects people’s attitudes. The qualitative inquiry probes the reasoning behind the survey results and points to the complicated relations between individual attitudes and the sense of group position. The interviewees’ words depict color-blind ways of talking about attitudes toward interracial marriage and different groups. Ideas of race emerge in this color-blind reasoning and the role of visible difference is highlighted both through the quantitative and qualitative inquiries.
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