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- Elsrud, Torun, et al.
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Precariousness, Sport Participation and Hope Among Young People After Rejections in the Swedish Asylum Process
- 2024
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Migration Research. - : Helsinki University Press. - 1799-649X. ; 14:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses the complex role of hope in relation to sport in the constrained lives of boys and young men who have experienced the Swedish asylum process. The data derives from an ethnographical longitudinal project on the social dimensions of hope in the asylum process. The project is situated in the context of escalating austerity politics and restrictions on asylum law and policy following the increased numbers of people seeking asylum in Sweden and other European countries in 2015. Through ethnographic cases, we expose how political decisions on national and supranational levels, amplified by economic structures, have put research participants in extremely precarious positions, affecting every aspect of their daily lives, including their sports life and ability to hope. Our analysis focuses on how sports may provide moments of realisation that generate distraction and an optimistic future orientation. Sports can also become everyday acts of resistance and manifestations of radical hope, opposing structural constraints. However, our research suggests that long-term, uncertain waiting coupled with neo-liberal labour exploitation creates situations where time and energy are taken over by external control, leading to an inability to maintain hope and experience sports as meaningful.
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- Herz, Marcus, 1978, et al.
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Assembling the multitude: the transversal potential of categories for social work practice
- 2024
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Ingår i: Critical and Radical Social Work. - 2049-8608 .- 2049-8675.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article elaborates on a theoretically informed model of action rooted in the concept of professional resistance, which approaches groups of people and social problems in an alternative way to the dominant modes of managerial practice. The aim is to create conditions for approaching groups with social needs differently and to be able to act politically for social change within contemporary society. We will do this by exploring the potential of the assembly in line with Hardt, Negri and Butler, as well as the notion of transversal politics as developed by Yuval-Davis, for creating political subjectivities and alliances across differences. The reason for this theoretical approach is based on how the effects of categorisation and its political function can sometimes be challenging to identify. This is argued to especially be the case within a neoliberal capitalist society where categories induce competition between precarious groups to maintain the political status quo.
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- Herz, Marcus, 1978
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Political and Emancipatory Approaches in Social Work (Symposium)
- 2024
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Ingår i: Social Work as Emancipatory Practice - Creating Pathways towards Social Justice. - Göteborg.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This symposium focuses on different perspectives on and approaches to political and emancipatory Social Work. The wide-reaching neo-liberalization and technocratisation of European welfare regimes have made it difficult for social workers to assert their role as the mediators between personal and wider structural and political social concerns. It is not sufficient to lament the implied de-politicisation of social work and to express further criticism of the social work profession for its apparent inability to envisage and address social problems in an explicitly political way. Instead, this symposium wishes to find a way forward that explains 121 the background to contemporary dilemmas faced by social workers and collects perspectives for their transformative handling. The symposium wishes to cover such themes as the role of social work in relation to politics on the local, regional, national and supranational levels; the role of critical, anti-oppressive and emancipatory traditions related to political and economic structures; activist social work, social mobilisation and collective strategies inside as well as outside the formal political system; agonistic approaches to social work, that is, perspectives which explore their productive potential of dissensus, conflict and resistance; theoretical elaborations within the field of social work that reach beyond a post-political paradigm; empirical examples, strategies and theoretical concepts on how to think and conduct social work in a politically effective way; and social work, citizenship and democracy. The symposium consists of four presentations: Presentation 1 - Towards an agonistic social work: a framework for political action and radical practice Assistant Professor Zulmir Bečević, PhD, Dep. of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Associate Professor Marcus Herz, PhD, Dep. of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Presentation 2 – The gendered effects of neoliberal management regimes: grounding theories of resistance in a feminist framework Assistant Professor Anna Ryan Bengtsson, PhD, Dep. of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Presentation 3 – Policing homes – policing the streets: Social Work and the gendered colour line Associate Professor Paula Mulinari, PhD, department of social work, Malmö University, Sweden Presentation 4 – Democratic Social Work: Beyond an End of History? Assistant Professor Magnus Weber, PhD, Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Lindbäck, Jonas, 1982, et al.
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Civil society social work in stigmatized areas - gang violence, municipals distrust and emancipatory possibilities
- 2024
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Ingår i: Social Work as Emancipatory Practice - Creating Pathways towards Social Justice. - Göteborg.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the last couple of years, there have probably not been any social issues more heavily debated in Sweden's political and public sphere than gang violence among young people, particularly in stigmatized areas. In this study, we have followed one civil organisation explicitly performing social work with youth involved in criminal activities who wanted help to defect. The organisation, located in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in one of Sweden's largest cities, constitutes an example of civil society efforts concerning gang violence. Between 2013 and 2023, we followed this work within the framework of two research projects. Both projects are based on an ethnographic approach, including participatory observations, document analysis, and individual and focus-group interviews with representatives of the organisation and the municipality. Findings demonstrate a complicated relationship between the municipality and the organisation, where the latter are distrusted. These experiences of distrust are emotionally charged and have become part of the organisation's history. A related finding is the question of funding. Funding decisions seem somewhat arbitrary, and representatives of the organisation describe being discriminated against and ongoing processes of othering. Finally, despite these dilemmas, findings also indicate that the organisation provides continuity and is vital to the community. Not the least to those young people who wanted help to defect, and their descriptions of the organisation's work and importance in their life trajectories. This study demonstrates the importance of civil society organisations performing community work and the difficulties surrounding such work when targeting gang violence as a highly politicised area.
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- Moberg Stephenson, Maria, 1978-, et al.
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Lived experiences of Swedish asylum policy among unaccompanied young people and social workers in a non-governmental organization
- 2024
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - : Routledge. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588. ; 14:1, s. 45-56
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to explore lived experiences of the asylum process in Sweden from the perspectives of unaccompanied young people and social workers who work with these young people during a period when Swedish asylum-laws went through a transformation. Young people are expected to become ‘integrated’ and create a sense of belonging in Sweden within a temporary perspective, and the social workers are supposed to work towards integration during more prolonged waiting times and more restrictive asylum politics. The article is based on interviews with young people with current or recent experience of the asylum process and social workers in a non-governmental organization. The results are centred around three themes: (1) the deportable young person; (2) time and waiting; (3) the contagious deportability and state of waiting. These are related to the asylum process from both the young people’s perspectives and how the social workers experience and talk about the young people’s situations. The findings show that the asylum-law changes have created an imminent threat of becoming deported, which puts young people in a state of deportability. There are demands to both wait and ‘integrate’ during this time, which is understood as a paradox of waiting. The deportability is also contagious, affecting the social workers who are supposed to provide support with integration in the middle of the precarious time the state of deportability and waiting creates.
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- Moberg Stephenson, Maria, 1978-, et al.
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To establish the unestablishable : Non-governmental social work with asylum-seeking minors in a neoliberal Sweden
- 2024
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Ingår i: Critical and radical social work An international journal. - 2049-8608 .- 2049-8675. ; , s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to explore the impact of neoliberal logic and ideas of establishment in Sweden on non-governmental social work with asylum-seeking young people. The focus is on the perceptions of the social workers within a non-governmental organisation (NGO) working with the establishment of unaccompanied young people. Data were collected through interviews and participant observations and analysed using theories of neoliberalism, belonging and neoliberal racism. The results show that when the migration laws were toughened in Sweden, the social workers and the NGO had to adapt. The NGO repackaged their target group only to include young people with residency, excluding others. The social workers resisted these changes and went beyond their formal duties to support all young people regardless of asylum status. However, the social work provided was still within the establishment framework of the programme. They kept working towards establishing people already deemed within a neoliberal and colonial logic as unestablishable.
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- Moberg Stephenson, Maria, et al.
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To establish the unestablishable: non-governmental social work with asylum-seeking minors in a neoliberal Sweden
- 2024
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Ingår i: Critical and Radical Social Work. - 2049-8608 .- 2049-8675.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to explore the impact of neoliberal logic and ideas of establishment in Sweden on non-governmental social work with asylum-seeking young people. The focus is on the perceptions of the social workers within a non-governmental organisation (NGO) working with the establishment of unaccompanied young people. Data were collected through interviews and participant observations and analysed using theories of neoliberalism, belonging and neoliberal racism. The results show that when the migration laws were toughened in Sweden, the social workers and the NGO had to adapt. The NGO repackaged their target group only to include young people with residency, excluding others. The social workers resisted these changes and went beyond their formal duties to support all young people regardless of asylum status. However, the social work provided was still within the establishment framework of the programme. They kept working towards establishing people already deemed within a neoliberal and colonial logic as unestablishable.
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- Sernhede, Ove, 1951, et al.
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Mellan resignation och framtidstro : livsvillkor och lärande hos förortens unga
- 2024
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Mellan resignation & framtidstro är en motberättelse mot den stereotypa bilden av ortens unga och mot de politiskt uppmålade visionerna om en mer jämlik stad genom omvandlingar av det urbana rummet och kortsiktiga insatser i skolor. Boken är ett kollektivt resultat av tre forskningsprojekt som alla kretsar kring begränsningar och möjligheter i unga människors livsvillkor och lärande i några av Göteborgs mest stigmatiserade stadsdelar.
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