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- Adolfsson, Caroline
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'We don't use the word race' : Boundaries of in-group membership in Sweden
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation explores the connections between the group construction of Swedishness, whiteness, and belongingness, exploring how these dynamics shape individuals' experiences of belongingness and non-belongingness. Employing a social-psychological lens, the research investigates the interplay between race and ingroup construction, shedding light on the complexities of Swedish identity within the broader global context. The dissertation comprises of a introduction (Kappa) and three stand alone articles, each contributing to the academic discourse while intersecting in their themes.The first article utilizes quantitative data to examine the feelings of belongingness among individuals from different ethnic backgrounds in Sweden. Results indicate a positive correlation between national and ethnic identifications, allowing for concurrent membership in various groups without contradiction, yet also suggests an empirical link between being appraised as Swedish and being white. The second article presents qualitative data, revealing that 'Swedishness' is closely tied to whiteness, particularly among white participants who also espoused hesitancy and adversion to the concept of ‘race’. In contrast, non-white participants display a more nuanced perspective on race and racialization. The third article investigates whether majority ethnic in-group and non-majority out-group members perceive and agree upon broad and specific representations of 'Swedishness' through a classic social categorization experiment. Results suggest a prevalence of associating 'Swedishness' with white individuals, despite efforts towards multicultural representation.Through these investigations, the dissertation provides valuable insights into the construction of Swedish group identity and its implications for both in-group and out-group members. By addressing research gaps and employing diverse methodologies, this work contributes to a deeper understanding of intergroup relations and identity dynamics in contemporary Swedish society.
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- Söderberg, Rebecka
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Displacing Diversity : How Social Mix Interventions are Legitimised, Experienced and Resisted in a Danish Neighbourhood
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This doctoral thesis explores residents’ experiences of and resistance to social mix interventions, as well as how these interventions are legitimised in policies. This is studied through an ethnographic approach to policies combined with ethnographic fieldwork in a neighbourhood targeted by social mix interventions. In its empirical scope, the thesis is limited to a Scandinavian context, highlighting the perspectives of residents in a Danish neighbourhood targeted by the so-called ghetto legislation and comparing Danish and Swedish policies. The first article of this compilation thesis explores problematisations of urban diversity in Danish and Swedish urban and integration policies. It highlights processes of ‘selfing/othering’, showing how Danish policies construct the figure of ’the non-Western’ and myths of national sameness based on assumptions about cultural homogeneity, while Swedish policies construct the figure of ‘the unproductive’ based on assumptions about sameness as productiveness. The second article explores residents’ experiences of ongoing interventions for social mix. The analysis shows how residents live in conditions of evictability and how they are subjected to the discursive, material, and psychological violence of un-homing, i.e., residents are deprived of their home on multiple scales, even before relocation. The third article highlights how residents engage in various forms of resistance against displacement and commodification. The analysis emphasises how residents’ resistance is both individual and collective, material and discursive, discreet and confrontational. In addition, it shows how residents’ resistance is productive and ambiguous, producing new discourses, (dis)alliances, and places.Researching experiences of social mix interventions while they occur, this thesis adds new aspects to previous research, which is mainly concerned with whether social mix policies ‘work’. The analysis shows how social mix interventions have immediate, wide-reaching and unintended consequences, and highlights mundane and productive dimensions of processes of resistance.
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- Damery, Shannon, et al.
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The complex position of migrant children in European legislation and education
- 2023
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Ingår i: Exploring the narratives and agency of children with migrant backgrounds within schools. - Milton Park and New York : Routledge. - 9781032377810 - 9781032377827 - 9781003341772 ; , s. 32-48
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Across Europe, migrant children often have lower educational outcomes than non-migrant children. This is a trajectory that can begin early in the school career and have long-term implications and is due to a host of school and non-school factors. This chapter offers an overview of migrant children’s protection, support and education as well as a synopsis of some of the legislation that impacts young migrants and their integration into schools. To this end, it highlights two contrasting cases (those of Belgium and Poland) in order to better illustrate the fact that even in countries with very different histories of migration, approaches to integration and school systems, there are many common obstacles facing migrant children in schools. Available data on the training of teachers and support workers, migrant children’s access to and placement in schools and the structural space for children’s agency in schools is presented here in order to illustrate the difference between policy and the lived reality of migrant children’s integration into schools. The treatment of children in policy and programming that is summarised here shows the complicated position migrant children occupy in policy, society and education systems.
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- Gegner, Harald, 1973-
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Statlig kunskapsstyrning : regionala utvecklingsledare i styrning av socialtjänstens barnavård
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Consisting of four scientific papers and a comprehensive overview, this thesis concerns governance in and of social work. More specifically, it studies governing of knowledge in social service with children and youth. Through the growing focus on evidence-based social work since 2000, state governing of knowledge has become an increasingly established concept. In general terms, it refers to the national level’s efforts to govern based on knowledge in order to solve social services’ ”knowledge problems”. However, there are more aspects to state governing of knowledge. Thus, this thesis focuses on the doing of such governance – a praxis that involves actors at national, regional and municipal levels. Here, regional development leaders in social service with children and youth are one of the central actors; consequently, they constitute the empirical focus of the thesis when analysing the doing of governing of knowledge. The aim of this study is to describe and analyse how state governing of knowledge is conducted by examining how development leaders perceive and concretise the task of governing of knowledge in social service’s childcare. The overall questions are as follows: 1. How do regional development leaders in social service with children and youth perceive and interpret the EBP knowledge model in relation to their task? 2. How do regional development leaders act when they govern with knowledge within social service? 3. What characterizes the professional practice of regional development leaders, and how can we understand it in the context of governance?Data have been collected through individual interviews and focus group interviews with 28 regional development leaders. In addition, the empirical material includes a field study with participant observations during network meetings and a questionnaire survey with 29 development leaders. The data have been analysed from three theoretical perspectives: governance as floating signifier, governance as joint doing, and governance as a relational exercise of power. The first perspective, governance as floating signifier, implies that governance changes over time, both in terms of how it can be understood and how it is applied. The second perspective, governance as joint doing, refers to governance as it takes place in and through interaction between actors involved in governance. Here, we can note a mutual influence between those who govern and those who are being governed. The third perspective focuses on power as a central element of governance and how it is constructed in a relational interaction between actors who are part of a common context of governance.The analysis shows that the ambiguity that surrounds state governing of knowledge creates a discretion for interpretation and action. This gives development leaders the opportunity to saturate their work with their own content, depending on the purpose and context, which is very much about developing and organising social work in social services. Working with development, change and innovation is thus of importance in the governing of knowledge of social service with children and youth. In carrying out their tasks, development leaders combine hierarchical top-down management with horizontal, relational management. This becomes evident in the development leaders’ choice of governance practices, which involves networking with managers in senior positions who have a mandate to make decisions. The interaction between development leaders and managers is characterised by mutual influence, which results in development leaders sacrificing certain areas of their mission in favour of activities that managers consider important to implement. Such governance praxis is likely to have implications for the outcomes of governing of knowledge. The establishment of the development leader as an actor in the governing of social work can be understood as a reaction to changing institutional conditions for the management and organisation of the public sector. The work of development leaders is characterised by a hybridised professional practice: they integrate seemingly incompatible logics and thus have to manage different tensions in a professional role, which is probably a prerequisite for navigating complex governing tasks.
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- Herbert, Mikaela
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Vindlande vägar i bostadsojämlikhetens Sverige : berättelser om marknadspraktiker, flyktingplaceringspolitik och bostadsprekaritet
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den här doktorsavhandlingen berättar om marknadspraktiker, flyktingplaceringspolitik och bostadsprekaritet i bostadsojämlikhetens Sverige. Huvudpersonerna i berättelserna är människor som sökte asyl och beviljades uppehållstillstånd i Sverige åren runt den så kallade flyktingkrisen 2015 och i fokus är deras boendevägar – deras vindlande vägar – under de första åren i landet. De flesta av forskningsdeltagarna är inkomstfattiga, vilket gör att de har erfarit betydande svårigheter att hitta någonstans att bo – erfarenheter som de delar med ett ökande antal inkomstfattiga hushåll i en tid präglad av bostadsbrist och tilltagande bostadsojämlikhet. Men genom att kategoriseras som asylsökande eller nyanlända omfattas forskningsdeltagarna därtill av särlagstiftning, som genom selektiva åtgärder som både villkorar, underlättar och kringskär deras bostadsmarknadspositioner men också skiljer ut dem från andra hushåll inom ramen för en förment generell bostadspolitisk modell. I syfte att nyansera och fördjupa förståelsen av bostadsojämlikhetens konsekvenser i en svensk kontext studeras i avhandlingen denna partikulära position.Utifrån en etnografisk ansats och med utgångspunkt i intervjuer, samtal, deltagande observationer och policyanalys utforskas hur forskningsdeltagarnas boendevägar formas och hur det går att förstå dessa i relation till å ena sidan de praktiker som forskningsdeltagarna utvecklar på svenska bostadsmarknader och å andra sidan den politiska styrningen av boende och bosättning för kategorierna asylsökande och nyanlända.Avhandlingen visar att boendevägarna kan beskrivas som kaotiska; med återkommande flyttar, in och ut ur olika, ofta trångbodda hushållsformationer och påfallande ofta med osäkra kontraktsförhållanden. Dock framgår att de formas genom beslut som fattas efter noga överväganden, utifrån skiftande behov och med hänsyn till relationer över tid och rum. Vidare framgår att olika marknadspraktiker har betydelse för deras möjligheter att få tillgång till bostad. Framför allt hyr de bostad inom ramen för en marknad för olovlig bostadsuthyrning, där bostäderna förmedlas genom arabiskspråkiga sociala nätverk. I avhandlingen förstås denna marknad i termer av assemblage och visar på hur den samskapas i konstellationer och i interaktioner mellan bland annat bostadssökande, kontraktsinnehavare och informella mäklare; kommunikationsverktyg; hyreskontrakt; lagar och regler samt tilldelningssystem såsom bostadsköer.Utifrån en kritisk ansats analyseras förarbetena till två flyktingplaceringspolitiska lagändringar: ”Bosättningslagen” samt inskränkningen av ”EBO-lagen”. Avhandlingen visar hur kategorierna asylsökande och nyanländas bosättningsmönster problematiseras och hur en ökad styrning av desamma syftar till att inte bara lösa problem direkt kopplade till målgruppernas boende utan också samhällsproblem som segregation, socioekonomiskt ”utsatta områden” och kommunernas kapacitet att erbjuda välfärdstjänster. Analysen visar vidare att skulden för dessa problem förläggs hos individerna (på gruppnivå, som kategori), samtidigt som fokus förflyttas bort från strukturella problem kopplade till byggande och fördelning av bostäder, liksom från kommunernas bostadsförsörjningsansvar för alla dess invånare.En av avhandlingens bärande idéer är att “flyktingkrisen”, genom att sätta press på det svenska bostadspolitiska systemet, fick dess oförmåga att tillgodose inkomstfattiga hushålls behov av bostad att skarpt framträda. Denna oförmåga försätter dessa hushåll i bostadsprekära situationer där de, med utgångspunkt i forskningsdeltagarnas berättelser, i stor utsträckning får förlita sig på informella eller olovliga marknadspraktiker.
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- Jensen, Tina Gudrun, et al.
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At åbne op og lukke ned : Rum, mennesker og relationer i en blandet bydel i Malmø, Sverige
- 2023
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Ingår i: Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. - Oslo : Universitetsforlaget. - 0802-7285 .- 1504-2898. ; 33:3-4, s. 295-311
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The neighbourhood of Sofielund in Malm. is marked by diversity in terms of its population and its varying architecture and types of housing. It is also marked by social divisions, including poverty, housing exploitations and criminality. Over time, a large number of interventions have been implemented to better the situation. The interventions are, among other things, inspired by the Business Improvement District (BID) model and include efforts to enhance social cohesion through a strategy of “opening up Sofielund” through creating “meeting-places.” The article provides an analysis of the lived experiences of residents in Sofielund, and shows how policy efforts on “social cohesion” and the creation of meeting-places are perceived by residents. The presentation argues that while meeting-places aim to even out tensions and strengthen social cohesion, they may also reproduce existent power relations and increase tensions. Consequently, the article shows that strategies of opening up places can have the unintended consequences of closing down for buildings, people, and social relations. The article focuses on how inequality and exclusion unfold in inclusive spaces, and entail different forms of polarisation based on “us” and “them”.
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- Righard, Erica, 1970-, et al.
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Epistemic authority and hybrid integration in the view of language ideologies in classroom discourse
- 2023. - 1
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Ingår i: Exploring the Narratives and Agency of Children with Migrant Backgrounds within Schools. - : Routledge. - 9781003341772 - 9781032377810 ; , s. 143-164
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The overall aim of the chapter is to contribute to the discussion on how teachers’ facilitation of classroom interaction can be understood in view of mono- and bi-/multilingual norms, and more specifically how teachers relate to, make use of, and strengthen children’s epistemic authority through language competences in the multilingual classroom. The analysis is primarily based on two sets of data. First, teacher interviews which answer to what problems and solutions teachers experience concerning teaching and learning in the multilingual classroom, and how they view their role as facilitator of dialogue and a promoter of agency and hybrid integration in relation to this. Secondly, video-recordings of classroom interaction in selected European localities teachers’ facilitation of dialogue were explored with regard to considering monolingual and bi-/multilingual ideologies and the promotion of hybrid integration. The analysis shows how the monolingual ideology permeates the data material. Students’ multilingual resources are not recognised and valued; consequently, multilingual students’ agency and epistemic authority is hindered. However, there are glimpses of “cracks” where spaces for alternative practices can be developed, in which students can use their full linguistic repertoire, including varying named languages to express their views or ideas beyond the language of instruction, which create potentials for strengthening students’ participation in classroom interactions. The chapter argues that children’s language competences should be integral to understandings of their epistemic authority and calls for further research into how strategies that accomplish this can be developed and transferred across classrooms and localities, with the purpose of strengthening all children’s epistemic authority in education.
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- Hermansson, Linus, et al.
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Firewalls : A necessary tool to enable social rights for undocumented migrants in social work
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Social Work. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 0020-8728 .- 1461-7234. ; 65:4, s. 678-692
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Firewalls are clear divisions between border policing and the provision of basic social rights. They have a dual character: to ensure that no information collected with the purpose of safeguarding basic social rights should be shared for immigration control purposes; and that migrants should not be subject to immigration control when being present at, or in the vicinity, of religious, private and public institutions upholding and providing social rights. This article suggests a normative argument for firewalls in the context of social work and develops the concept theoretically as a principle practised and negotiated at different scales.
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- Righard, Erica, 1970-
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Integration i städer med en omfattande diversitet i befolkningen : Teoretiska perspektiv, empirisk forskning och en diskussion om implikationer för politik och praktik i Malmö
- 2022
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sammanfattning Detta kunskapsunderlag om integration till Tillväxtkommissionen för ett inkluderande och hållbart Malmö tar avstamp i frågor om hur man kan arbeta för att stärka integration i städer som präglas av en omfattande mångfald i sin befolkning. Rapporten utgör en kunskapsöversikt av ett urval av forskning på området och består utöver inledningen som presenterar rapportens ansats, av tre delar: en mer teoretisk del, en del som presenterar en översikt av empirisk forskning, och en avslutande del som sammanfattar forskningsöversikten och kopplar denna till frågor om integration i Malmö. Denna del innehåller även två rekommendationer och en fråga. Inledningen visar hur Malmö, liksom många andra städer, präglas av en omfattande diversitet som uppstått till följd av globala migrationsmönster och nationella bosättningsmönster. År 2021 var 35 procent av befolkningen i Malmö utrikes född. Om vi vidgar greppet och även ser till inrikes personer med minst en utrikes född förälder, det vill säga både personer med egen migrationserfarenhet och personer där en av eller båda föräldrarna har migrationserfarenhet, så har 56 procent av Malmös befolkning migrationsbakgrund och det med ursprung i inte mindre än 184 länder. 44 procent av Malmös befolkning är födda i Sverige av föräldrar som båda är födda i Sverige. Detta innebär att det i Malmö finns fler personer som har migrationsbakgrund än som inte har det. Denna utveckling har gett upphov till en omfattande debatt om integration i både forskning, politik och praktik. Medan både forskning, politik och praktiska verksamheter historiskt har utgått från att invandrade minoriteter kommer att assimileras med majoritetsbefolkningen, ibland med stöd för att bevara vissa kulturella särdrag, introducerades begreppet superdiversitet för ett femtontal år sedan för att beskriva nya former av diversifiering och för att öppna upp för en diskussion om integration som tar avstamp i denna pågående utveckling. Denna diversifiering involverar inte bara allt fler födelseländer, nationaliteter och etniciteter, utan även inom varje sådan grupp sker en diversifiering, bland annat i formen av skilda migrationsvägar och juridiska status, vilket påverkar social differentiering och integration. Mot denna bakgrund, syftar superdiversitet som begrepp att möjliggöra en behövlig ’synvända’ kring integration. Kunskapsöversikten tar avstamp i denna diskussion och ser till empirisk forskning som har relevans för hur vi kan tänka kring och verka för att stärka integration i den diversifierade staden. Utöver inledningen som beskriver denna ansats, består rapporten av tre delar. Den första delen är mer teoretisk och tar spjärn mot frågan vad diversitet och integration är och hur det kan förstås i samhällen som präglas av omfattande diversitet. Fokus ligger först på diversitet, och vad som skiljer superdiversitet från diversitet i städer. Detta leder in till en diskussion om integration, och inte minst hur super-/diversitet utmanar invanda sätt att tänka kring integration. Denna första del avslutas med en diskussion om hur vi kan tänka kring superdiversitet i ett integrationsperspektiv. Diskussionen tar avstamp i en politik- och praktikorienterad modell för integration och ser till hur denna kan förstås i ljuset av superdiversitet. Andra delen presenterar empirisk forskning om integration i urbana sammanhang som präglas av omfattande diversitet. Den modell för integration som presenteras i inledningen, används för att sortera forskningspublikationerna. Avsnittet är strukturerat efter modellens fyra huvudområden för integration (markörer och verktyg; sociala kopplingar; underlättare; fundament), och empirisk forskning om integration och superdiversitet i urbana sammanhang diskuteras i relation till modellens fjorton domäner. Den tredje och avslutande delen består av en sammanfattande diskussion, två förslag och en fråga. Den sammanfattande diskussionen lyfter vilka lärdomar som går att dra från befintlig forskning om integration i städer som präglas av en omfattande migrationsdriven mångfald; den sätter fokus på hur integration påverkas av såväl nationell och lokal politik, som hur organisationer och professionella arbetar med integration inom olika verksamheter. Det är alltid en utmaning att säga hur och i vilken grad kunskap från ett sammanhang är överförbar till ett annat. De två rekommendationer som utfärdas riktar sig dels till politiken i Malmö, dels till Malmö stad som organisation. Rapporten avslutas med en fråga om vilket slags kunskapsunderlag Malmö stad behöver för att kunna utveckla politik och praktik så att dessa svarar mot de behov som finns i staden och dess befolkning.
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- Righard, Erica, 1970-, et al.
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Transnational Perspectives in Social Work
- 2022
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Ingår i: Oxford bibliographies. Social work. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780195389678
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The transnational perspective contributes to the development of theoretical and practical knowledge of social work as this is conditioned and framed in contemporary dynamics of globalization. Social work transnationalism, also referred to as transnational social work, is related to but typically has a more limited and focused purview than international social work. More than a particular field of practice, social work transnationalism is based in particular understandings of social problems and interventions. In migration studies, the transnational perspective has contributed to a reframing of international migration as multidirectional and continuing mobility dynamics in people’s everyday life and in societies. More broadly in the development of the social sciences, the transnational perspective constitutes a critique of naturalized assumptions of “sedentarism” and of societies as nation-states. In the social sciences, this kind of critique is often referred to as a critique of methodological nationalism. For social work, it means that implicit assumptions of social problems and social work as “naturally” framed by nation-states and the reach of nationally organized welfare programs are questioned. Instead, transnational approaches to social problems and social work regard these as they are shaped, experienced, and needed in globalized societies. While the development of the transnational perspective is diversified, its ontological standpoint makes it a particular perspective. This is also why it has a more limited and focused purview than international social work: international social work is not limited to a particular theoretical perspective. The aim of this article is to organize existing literature on social work from a transnational perspective under relevant themes. Below, Overview Works and Collected Volumes are first presented, followed by five themes, which are divided into subthemes. The first theme, Social Work Transnationalism, includes literature developing the transnational perspective in social work, discussions on transnational social work as a set of practices, and implications for social policy. The second theme, Social Work with Transnational Populations, includes literature on social problems and social work in relation to particular populations of migrants, such as children and elderly. The third theme, Migrant Transnationalism and Social Protection across Borders, is a growing field of literature that regards informal social protection systems, often led by migrants through transnational networks. Finally, the fourth and fifth themes are about implications of Social Work Transnationalism among Migrant Professionals and Social Work Transnationalism and Education.
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- Persdotter, Maria, et al.
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Introduction to special issue: Bordering practices in the social service sector : experiences from Norway and Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - : Routledge. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588. ; 11:2, s. 95-102
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Following the 2015-peak of asylum-seeking migrants in Europe, asylumpolicies have become increasingly restrictive. As bordering has become a prioritized issue among many European national governments, including in the Nordic countries, practices of bordering have also become more decentralised, diffuse and dispersed. This special issue set focus on such bordering practices as these are manifest in the social service sector. It draws on research conducted in Norway and Sweden and consists, besides this introduction, of seven original articles.Of particular focus is how social work, in its regulations and practices, are involved in the bordering of both the nation and the welfare state. Connecting insights from border studies – and related critical research – with social work research, the articles present empirical analyses of the dynamics of bordering practices among varying practitioners and in varying organizations, including legislators, courts, municipalities, street-level social workers and civil society organizations. The special issue as a whole also raises questions about the ethical and political challenges that emerge at the nexus of bordering and social service provision. In this introductory article, we provide an overview of the field of border studies and discuss how it relates to social work research. This serves as a conceptual foundation which we hope will enable critical reflections on the relationships between social service
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- Righard, Erica, 1970-
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Researching the Dynamics of National Social Policy in a Globalized Society : A Proposal for a De-Nationalized Analytical Framework
- 2021
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Ingår i: Swiss Journal of Sociology. - : Sciendo. - 2297-8348. ; 47:1, s. 137-155
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Epistemological hierarchies in the social sciences stipulate that sedentarism is naturalised as a normality, and that mobility is viewed as a deviation. This article sets out to propose an analytical framework that takes the analysis beyond this kind of nationalized knowledge production, and to empirically show the gains of de-nationalized frameworks for analysis of social protection and dynamics of in-/equality in the globalised society. I will do this relying on the empirical example of the public old-age pension scheme in Sweden.
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- Righard, Erica, 1970-, et al.
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Urban and Local Strategies in Malmö Functional Urban Area and the Integration of Migrants
- 2021
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Ingår i: A Place-Based Approach to Migrant Integration. - Luxembourg : Publications Office of the European Union. - 9789276452324 ; , s. 68-91
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Swedish case study focuses on two kinds of place-based strategies, namely sustainable urban development (SUD) and community led local development (CLLD) strategies as these were implemented in the Malmö functional urban area (FUA) during the programming period 2014–2020. The SUD strategy is part of the Skåne-Blekinge Programme and is implemented in the inner urban area of the Malmö City56. The CLLD strategy is implemented in two CLLD areas, the areas of Leader Lundaland and Leader Söderslätt. These are the two southwesternmost CLLD areas57 in Sweden, and they encircle the city of Malmö, located on the west coast of Scania, connecting Sweden with Denmark and the continent via the Öresund bridge. Leader Lundaland and Leader Söderslätt comprise five municipalities each58. For the purpose of this report the functional urban area of Malmö along the outer borders of these municipalities has been considered. In fact, the case study perimeter deviates slightly from the functional urban area as defined by EUROSTAT; in our case study the Eslöv municipality is included, although it is not in the area defined by EUROSTAT (see figure 1)59. This definition also means that one municipality, the Burlöv municipality, is included in the Malmö functional area though it is not targeted by any of the strategies.
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- Boccagni, Paolo, et al.
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Social work with refugee and displaced populations in Europe : (Dis)continuities, dilemmas, developments
- 2020
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Ingår i: European Journal of Social Work. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1369-1457 .- 1468-2664. ; 23:3, s. 375-383
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Social work with displaced people has an extended background in the history of the profession. Yet, it has taken different forms and remits over time, parallel to the evolving legal and political definition of refugee themselves. Inside Europe, in particular, social work with forced migrants has gained new visibility and increasing complexity after the so-called refugee crisis. Aspects like people's limited visibility and eligibility towards formal welfare services, their uncertain legal status, their temporal “liminality” and their non-linear patterns of mobility have all major consequences for social work practice, research and education. In discussing them, we highlight the need to invest in students' (and practitioners') reflexivity, given both the complexity of building up trust-based relationships with forcibly displaced people, and the risk of cultivating essentialized, stigmatizing or nativist representations about them. In all of these respects, our introduction provides a conceptual basis for this Special Issue of EJSW, and for the broader debate in social work across Europe.
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- Palmer, Henrietta, et al.
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Clustering and assemblage building
- 2020
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Ingår i: Comparative Urban Research from Theory to Practice: Co-production for Sustainability. - Bristol, UK : Policy Press. - 9781447353126 ; , s. 89-112
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter describes comparative knowledge production by way of bringing together already existing research financed by other means and local development projects within a defined area of research and intervention. The projects were all dealing with migration but based in different urban contexts, and they were brought together in a systematic way we call clustering. This methodology was developed through a joint venture of comparative knowledge production involving researchers, practitioners and civil society actors. Clustering represents a method for comparison and knowledge production across discrete research and development projects within a joint field or theme, but based in dissimilar societal contexts. Inspired by assemblage theory, relevant key questions were identified to guide the comparative work. This approach enabled participants to exchange and discuss experiences, build new knowledge and elaborate potentials across projects and localities without full understanding of the often very different background, context and dynamic of each project. The contribution lies primarily in the chapter's presentation of a methodology for knowledge exchange and building in transdisciplinary and translocal setting, without a budget to fund a rigorous and systematic comparison on the empirical level.
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- Palmer, Henrietta, et al.
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Clustering and assemblage building
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Ingår i: Comparative Urban Research from Theory to Practice. - Bristol : Policy Press. - 9781447353126 - 9781447354093 - 9781447354079 ; , s. 89-112
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- Palmer, Henrietta, 1965, et al.
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Clustering and assemblage building
- 2020
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Ingår i: Comparative Urban Research from Theory to Practice: Co-production For sustainablity. - : Policy Press. - 9781447353126 ; , s. 89-112
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- Righard, Erica, 1970-, et al.
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Transnational social vulnerabilities and reconfigurations of 'social policy' : Towards a denationalized research agenda
- 2020
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Ingår i: Handbook on society and social policy. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781788113519 ; , s. 473-485
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- Public social policy was institutionalized at a time of intense nation-state building; it wasshaped by, and contributed to the closure of the Westphalian system of social protection.Today’s globalization processes in general, and population mobility and cross-borderdynamics of social problems in particular, challenge such framings of social problems andpolicy interventions. The ‘mobility turn’ within the social sciences has brought forwardrelevant theoretical tools and perspectives for the unbounding of the social from suchnational framings. This chapter contributes to this debate by reviewing two kinds of socialpolicy developments in which this unbounding is evident, though varying in scope anddynamics. The first example draws on a single-case study of the public old-age pension inSweden; it shows how this has included national and foreign citizens who have immigratedto and emigrated from Sweden in varying degrees over time. The second example points thegrowing importance of international organisations in field of public health, compared to inteera of international cooperation, and discusses implications of this for a rights-based healthcare. The chapter suggests a denationalized epistemology as a fruitful way forward fordebates about social justice and social policy within and across countries in the globalisedsociety.
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- Gegner, Harald, 1973-, et al.
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Otydlighetens betydelse : de regionala utvecklingsledarna och evidensbaserad praktik inom den sociala barn- och ungdomsvården
- 2019
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete, FORSA. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 26:2, s. 153-172
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- The significance of ambiguity – Evidence-based practice in social service with children and youth. Evidence-based practice (EBP) has gained a central position as a model of knowledge for social work in the public sector. In the Swedish Government Report about knowledge-based social work from 2008, EBP is described as a useful way of structuring the social services on a scientific basis (SOU 2008:18). Following on this, and in order to establish EBP in social work practice, between 2009 and 2016, there were annual agreements between the government and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR). As defined by the annual agreements, a national network of Regional Development Leaders (regionala utvecklingsledare) was given the task of producing regional plans of action for the establishment of EBP in the municipalities. The article examines how the Regional Development Leaders in the so-called Children and Youth Investment (Barn- och ungasatsningen) interpret and implement EBP as a model in public social work. The study is based on interviews with 22 out of the 37 Regional Development Leaders that were part of the Children and Youth Investment in 2016. Ernesto Laclau’s theory of empty signifier serves as an analytical tool. The analysis shows that the ambiguity surrounding EBP creates discretion for the Regional Development Leaders. This discretion allows them to use EBP as a ”signifier without a signified”; a model that they can fill with different meanings depending on purpose and context. In that perspective, EBP appears as a floating term and can be characterized as an empty signifier. One of the main results stresses the fact that the Regional Development Leaders describe EBP as a model of governance rather than a model of knowledge. Despite its ambiguity, EBP fills a significant function for the development of knowledge-based social work practices in the public sector.
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Inequalities and migration : Challenges to the Swedish welfare state
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sweden is often pictured as a country with a strong welfare system and low levels of inequality. But it is also described as a country that has undergone fundamental restructurings of its welfare system since the 1990s, and with inequality gaps that are among the fastest growing in Europe. This development is strikingly visible among people with a migration background. The question is how this might be understood. Inequalities and migration set focus on ongoing developments and debates about the Swedish welfare system in relation to migration. It introduces the international reader to ongoing developments of inequalities and migration in Sweden in broad historical and international perspectives. The book also offers in-depth insights to how the dynamics of growing inequality unfolds in regard to a range of phenomena and areas of intervention, including the role of civil society. The selected case studies focus on inequalities and hierarchies with regard to both various forms of cross-border mobility and the increased diversification of Swedish society. The book fills a gap when it comes to English language course literature about contemporary debates regarding social policy and social work in relation to migration in Sweden. At the same time it is well suited for a broader range of readers, including policy makers and practitioners outside of Sweden.
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- Righard, Erica
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Conceptualising Social Work Through the Lens of Transnationalism : Challenges and Ways Ahead
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Migration Research. - : De Gruyter Open. - 1799-649X. ; 8:4, s. 245-253
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- Professional social work was established and expanded in a historical moment marked by intense nation-building; it was organized along and in parallel with other welfare state services which functioned to strengthen the nation-state. Today social work is at practice in a society marked by intensified globalisation; social needs and social problems that social workers are confronted with in their professional practice are sometimes transnational in their dynamics and cannot adequately be understood when limited to a local or national context. Drawing on insights from the transnational perspective, this article identifies challenges and ways ahead in the development of social work practice and theory with relevance for the globalised society. It argues that the transnational perspective can contribute to the dissolving of binaries between both ‘here’ and ‘there’, and ‘us’ and ‘them’ in social work, and pave the way for approaching social problems from a relational viewpoint beyond ‘given’ territorial and ethnocultural lenses.
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- Wikström, Eva, 1966-, et al.
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Responses to ethnic and 'racial' diversity in social work practice : The swedish development in a historical perspective
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Ingår i: 6th European Conference for Social Work Research : Reflective social work practices in contemporary societies: dialogues and new pathways between praxis and research. - 9789899948624 ; , s. 538-539
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- Social work responses to ethnic and ‘racial’ diversity varies over time and between places. In some countries it is mainstreamed; in others it tends instead to be side-lined to ‘cultural experts’ and ‘culturally matched’ social workers. The existing – but very limited – research drawing on the situation in Sweden, suggests that in Sweden ethnic and ‘racial’ diversity tend to be side-lined. This is typically understood as related to the universal and extended Scandinavian welfare state regime that frames social work practices; universalism seems to emphasize universal standards in front of particularism. The universal standards assume that the legislative and theoretical framework are so called (culturally) ‘neutral’. In practice this sometimes equals ‘colour or ethnic blindness’ with ‘whiteness’ as present but invisible. This presentation contributes to this research field, analysing how different meanings given to ethnic and ‘racial’ diversity in social work have developed over time in Sweden. The empirical material is drawn from the main Swedish professional journal of social work (Socionomen). The journal is considered an important platform for debating social work practice in Sweden and has existed for almost sixty years. We have systematically searched all issues from the first publication in 1958 up until 2014. Methodologically we rely on text and content analysis. This includes how issues on ethnic relations are presented, framed and what particular words that are used. This implies an analysis of choices of words and representations which carry underlying assumptions about the issues addressed. By way of analysing the content of the debates in this journal, we can show the varying meaning that has been given to ethnic and ‘racial’ relations in Sweden over time.The analysis indicates that throughout the years, there is a paradoxical interest in the international dimension of social work. However, for many decades, international dimensions in social work was understood as something situated ‘there’, not ‘here’. While social work practice early on was understood as (culturally) neutral, from the 1970s cultural representations of the ‘other’ begin to appear. While the representations of the ‘other’ varies over time, the cultural representation of ‘whiteness’ remains invisible. Hence, this study supports earlier studies arguing that the ethnic and ‘racial’ relations are side-lined in social work in Sweden. Its particular contribution lies in that it highlights how this has shifted over time.
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- Boccagni, Paolo, et al.
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Introduction to the special issue: social work and migration in Europe : a dialogue across boundaries
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. - : Tylor & Francis. - 1556-2948 .- 1556-2956. ; 13:3, s. 221-228
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- In this introduction, we argue for the need to better understand so- cial work with migrants and to enhance its research bases against a background of increasing mobility and ethnic diversification across Europe. While much has been written on the influence of international migration on national welfare regimes and on specific forms of social welfare provision, the ways in which mi- gration affects mainstream social work practices are relatively understudied—even less so in a comparative perspective, looking at social interventions as well as to the organizations and cultures of social services, without neglecting the broader policy arrangements in which social work practice is embedded. The political and pre- scriptive bases of social workers’ remit vis-a`-vis immigrant clients, the ways of framing and categorizing the latter, and the impli- cations for social workers’ training, supervision, and research are discussed. The main value added of the five contributions to this Special Issue of JIRS is highlighted at last.
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- Boccagni, Paolo, et al.
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Mapping transnationalism : Transnational social work with migrants. Introduction
- 2015
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Ingår i: Transnational Social Review. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2193-1674 .- 2196-145X. ; 5:3, s. 312-319
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Introduction Over the last few years, the concepts and categories of transnational migration studies (Faist, Fauser, & Reisenauer, 2013; Levitt & Jaworsky, 2007) – already well-established across other disciplines – have successfully entered into the educational, theoretical, and practical field of social work. In this article we briefly take stock of this new development, in order to build a framework for the papers that follow. The contributions in this Mapping Transnationalism Section are authored by European leading scholars, with distinct and complementary takes on the emergence of a transnational turn in social work. In the first article, Karen Lyons advances a theoretical approach to social work with mobile populations, based on a conceptual revisit of international social work; in the second paper, in an educationally-oriented perspective, Pat Cox makes a case for a transnational optic to be more systematically assumed in academic curricula; in the last article, Norma Montesino and Mercedes Jiménez-Álvarez discuss the prospects for social work practice with a client group with a strongly transnational profile, such as so-called “unaccompanied minors.”1 What is specific to our own introductory piece, instead, is a three-step argument: a discussion of the conceptual grounds and the external factors underlying the transition from international to transnational social work (Section 1); an overview of the practical forms of transnational social work in the context of migration and of the types of resources circulated through them (Section 2); a preliminary balance of the professional implications of transnational social work with migrants, and of the challenges ahead for its refinement and diffusion (Section 3).
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- Lundberg, Anna, et al.
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Reflections on the right to health
- 2015
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Ingår i: Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities : Nordic Perspectives on Urban Marginalization and Social Sustainability - Nordic Perspectives on Urban Marginalization and Social Sustainability. - : Nordic Academic Press. - 9789187675737 ; , s. 251-264
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- Montesino, Norma, et al.
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Avslutning
- 2015
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Ingår i: Socialt arbete och migration. - : Malmö Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789140688750 ; , s. 221-223
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- Montesino, Norma, et al.
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Internationellt erfarenhetsbaserat lärande
- 2015
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Ingår i: Socialt arbete och migration. - : Malmö Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789140688750 ; , s. 205-220
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- Righard, Erica, et al.
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Inledning
- 2015
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Ingår i: Socialt arbete och migration. - : Malmö Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789140688750 ; , s. 7-16
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