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- Lalander, Philip, et al.
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Ethical dilemmas in studying “unaccompanied minors” : building trust and reframing young people who are considered suspects
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In our presentation we talk about central ethical dilemmas which may occur while studying socially exposed groups, who are used to being documented and suspicious by welfare society agents, but also how researcher may overcome such dilemmas by building trust. We will mainly use data material from our present study “Agency and networks: Unaccompanied minors in a hyper interconnected world”, a qualitative and partly ethnographic study about how ”unaccompanied” young people experience everyday life. Some themes will receive extra attention in our presentation. These are; 1. Providing access to their homes. Who provides access? The young people themselves? The manager or staff working at residential care units? 2. How can we maintain a solid trust building relation to the youth to keep them interested to talk to us more than once and provide us with “thick narratives”? 3. What do they think they may gain from contributing to the project? How do/can we match their expectations? 4. How can we in a time of increasing racialization and homogenization of this group of young people write about them in order not to reconstruct established stereotypes of them? And finally, 5. How can we contribute to reframing these young people as grieveable.
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- Lalander, Philip
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A social dimension on everyday life among heroin users in a Swedish setting
- 2013
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Ingår i: The IVth Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction: European Studies in Symbolic Interaction. - : Högskolan i Skövde. ; , s. 28-29
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This presentation uses an interactionist perspective influenced by scholars such as Howard Becker, Erwing Goffman, Randal Collins, and Pierre Bourdieu in analyzing the everyday life of the heroin users in order to reveal the importance of social dimensions in trying to understand heroin use. It is particularly important to highlight the social dimension since we live in an individualized society in which social problems and deviant behaviour is often interpreted as individual problems of self-control, character, and/or medical/biological shortcomings. This approach is applied to ethnographic studies concerning the city of Norrköping (approx. 130,000 inhabitants), which had little experience of heroin before the end of the 1990s but suddenly harbored a local heroin market. Spending time with 25 young users (average age 22) facilitated a better understand of their motives for using heroin. This also made it possible to understand how important social life was for them, both in relation to getting into heroin and in trying to leave the often stressful life it causes. Social interaction and situations of the past are incorporated in the actors, in their habitus, and in their emotional interpretation of the world. Also incorporated is a certain social rhythm experienced while being with other drug users and by participating in drug using rituals. This rhythm is not coordinated with the social rhythm of mainstream society, whereby it acquires a value of its own.
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- Lalander, Philip, et al.
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Social mobilization or illicit drug use and street crimes : Two strategies among young urban outcasts
- 2012
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This presentation deals with processes of marginalization and patterns of segregation in contemporary Sweden, which have transformed the former welfare state towards increased segregation and inequality between different social groups. Two ethnographic studies on young men (one carried out by Lalander and another by Ove Sernhede) living in stigmatized metropolitan areas are used in discussion and analysis. During the 1990s we could see the birth and growth of new forms of poverty in multi-ethnic suburbs of the metropolitan districts of Sweden. During the last two decades, youth subcultures oriented towards Reggae and Hip hop have grown and attracted many young people in these metropolitan areas. This article focuses on how two youth collectives in two metropolitan areas developed different strategies to cope with discrimination, second class citizenship and territorial stigmatization. In both these collectives it is possible so see how informal learning processes, embedded in cultural praxis of the youth groups and empowered by a connection to African-American music cultures, enable these groups and individuals to express themselves. The youth collective in one suburb articulates a social and political criticism that could be compared to the cultural aspirations of the labour movement in the early part of the last century. The youth from the other neighbourhood have a strong fascination with criminal out-law culture and do not articulate themselves in the same way as members of the other group. Still their cultural expressions must be understood as ways to deal with their positions as marginalized, immigrant youth.
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- Lalander, Philip
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Humanizing the other in ethnographic research. : Deviants “ethnic” minorities are not so deviant after all.
- 2007
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Ingår i: Studying Ethnic Minorities. - : Kopenhagen.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The article discusses both Lalander´s own experiences, as well as others', of doing ethnographic studies among people with a different social and ethnical position/background than that of the researcher. The arguments are mainly drawn from a study of young men, commonly classified as second generation immigrants, with a Chilean background living in a low status area in the middle sized Swedish town Norrköping. The researcher aimed at studying how these people with aid of selected images from street culture in Chile, from music styles and films, constructed a masculine street culture involving illicit drug use and criminality. Thus, the article deals with minority issues in a multi-faceted way. The informants represent a minority in the Swedish society because of their immigrant status, but due to their criminal activity they are also a minority in relation to their ethnic group. Between 2002 and now Lalander has developed relationships in this group and thereby also an understanding of processes of identity and culture, such as how they use and construct ethnicity in order to create both personal and social identity. For them being a Chilean referred to positive values about warmness and social openness, while being a Swede referred to negative values such as coldness and hostility towards strangers. As they were participating in criminal activities they were also quite suspicious towards strangers. A Swedish researcher in his late thirties working for the state could have been seen as a representative for the authorities with the task of controlling the informants. But how did those stereotypes work when they met a researcher with a clear membership in the majority group in society? When were issues of ethnicity involved and when were they not, with regard to the relationship between the researcher and the young men? Could it have been an advantage that the researcher was from another ethnic background than their own with regard to access? Lalander argues for a research in which the social interaction under specific circumstances creates social bonds related to feelings of respectability which sometimes exceeds existing stereotypes, both for the persons under study and the researcher. The personal and concrete relationship exceeds the abstract relation between a researcher from the ethnic majority and outsiders from a minority group into something more complex and nuanced.
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