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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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- Lalander, Philip, 1965-, et al.
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Keeping an open venue and working face to face during the Covid-19 outbreak: challenges for civil society organizations working with people living precarious lives in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines how representatives of Swedish civil society organisations (CSOs) reflected on and acted to provide daily functional social work to people living precarious lives during the early phase (March-April 2020) of the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden. The empirical material consists of 20 qualitative interviews with representatives of CSOs. The results highlight how the CSOs, and their venues, constituted a safe place where visitors were considered grievable and that working face-to-face with the visitors was deemed necessary. However, the pandemic posed challenges for how the CSOs were used to organise their social work, while many visitors lacked other alternatives. When Covid-19 hit, it meant adapting and responding to deliver well-functioning social work and a place for people lacking other alternatives despite the pandemic. The measures taken implied possible challenges to the relationship between the CSOs and their visitors. Still, there were indications that the visitors saw the measures as a protection, as rituals of grievability. However, not all measures were welcomed by the representatives or visitors. Turning people away or prioritising among visitors were challenging and cannot always be said to frame people as grievable. Regardless, it seems that the challenging measures taken during the pandemic were already embedded in everyday practices where the visitors were treated relationally and considered grievable before the pandemic. This embeddedness made it possible to extend grievability throughout the pandemic, even when social distancing measures were used, thus emphasising the importance of places of grievability being accessible to people before societal crises occur.
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- Herz, Marcus, 1978-, et al.
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Avslutning
- 2022. - 2
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Ingår i: Kritiskt socialt arbete. - Stockholm : Liber. - 9789147144235 ; , s. 214-228
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Herz, Marcus, et al.
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Governing through hope : an exploration of hope and social change in an asylum context
- 2022
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Ingår i: Emotions and Society. - : Bristol University Press. - 2631-6897 .- 2631-6900. ; 4:2, s. 222-237
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to elaborate, theoretically, on the ambiguity of hope and its relation to social change in the asylum context. This ambiguity involves two different perspectives of hope. One more mundane view of hope where it is considered an emotion used to overcome complex issues and move towards a better situation in the future. A perspective often used by social and migration authorities to urge people to hope for a future should they submit to the authorities’ logic. The other perspective, more common in some research, challenges such positive connotations and argues that hope can put people in a position of suffering where hope may hinder or slow down the realisation of social change. With the aid of scholars who have theorised about hope and ethnographic cases from our research on hope in the asylum context, we develop a theoretical perspective on hope and social change. Our perspective includes concepts such as the governmentality of hope, fragmentation of hope and glimmers of hope. To grasp the relationship between hope and social change, we must account for several mixed emotions, such as feelings of despair, fear and bitterness, as well as glimmers of hope. Such mixtures of emotions may be essential to initiate and create social change. A central argument in this article is that an analysis of hope when people risk being governed by hope would benefit from a parallel analysis of social change.
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- Herz, Marcus, 1978, et al.
(författare)
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Governing through hope: an exploration of hope and social change in an asylum context
- 2022
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Ingår i: Emotions and society. - : Bristol University Press. - 2631-6897 .- 2631-6900. ; 4:2, s. 222-237
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to elaborate, theoretically, on the ambiguity of hope and its relation to social change in the asylum context. This ambiguity involves two different perspectives of hope. One more mundane view of hope where it is considered an emotion used to overcome complex issues and move towards a better situation in the future. A perspective often used by social and migration authorities to urge people to hope for a future should they submit to the authorities’ logic. The other perspective, more common in some research, challenges such positive connotations and argues that hope can put people in a position of suffering where hope may hinder or slow down the realisation of social change. With the aid of scholars who have theorised about hope and ethnographic cases from our research on hope in the asylum context, we develop a theoretical perspective on hope and social change. Our perspective includes concepts such as the governmentality of hope, fragmentation of hope and glimmers of hope. To grasp the relationship between hope and social change, we must account for several mixed emotions, such as feelings of despair, fear and bitterness, as well as glimmers of hope. Such mixtures of emotions may be essential to initiate and create social change. A central argument in this article is that an analysis of hope when people risk being governed by hope would benefit from a parallel analysis of social change.
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- Herz, Marcus, 1978, et al.
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Mot ett kritiskt socialt arbete
- 2022. - 2
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Ingår i: Kritiskt socialt arbete. - Malmö : Liber. - 9789147144235 ; , s. 214-228
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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Kritiskt socialt arbete
- 2022
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I boken diskuteras hur ett kritiskt socialt arbete kan utvecklas och integreras i praktiken. Med avstamp i ett teoretiskt metaperspektiv formuleras förslag på sätt att bidra till en utveckling av detta. En utgångspunkt är att socialarbetaren är en del i ett maktspel. Denna produktion av makt kan ta sig uttryck i kategoriseringar av människor, i det språk som används eller i de metoder och teorier som ligger till grund för bedömningar och beslut. Boken gör en rad empiriska och teoretiska nedslag i teman som exempelvis makt, motstånd, familj, intersektionalitet, hemlöshet, migration, globala förändringar och kategoriseringar och visar med dem hur man kan närma sig ett socialt arbete som är kritiskt och reflexivt. I denna andra upplaga av boken har samtliga kapitel reviderats och två nya kapitel tillkommit – ett om den nya hemlösheten och fattigdomsparadoxen och ett om globala förändringar och nationella konsekvenser. Kritiskt socialt arbete riktar sig till studenter på socionomprogrammet, men även till studerande på andra utbildningar med klient- eller patientkontakt, samt till yrkesverksamma inom socialt arbete, sjukvård, kriminalvård och skola. Boken: - introducerar kritiskt socialt arbete i en svensk kontext utifrån både teori och empiri. - ger verktyg för att kritiskt granska den egna maktpositionen och sitt dagliga arbete. - bidrar till att sätta in det sociala arbetet i en politisk och strukturell ram, samt betonar vikten av att aktivt och kritiskt förhålla sig till denna ram. Om författarna: Bokens redaktör, Marcus Herz, är docent i socialt arbete och verksam vid Göteborgs universitet. Övriga författare: Thomas Johansson, professor i pedagogik, Göteborgs universitet; Jessica Jönsson, docent i socialt arbete, Örebro universitet. Philip Lalander, professor i socialt arbete, Linnéuniversitetet; Tina Mattsson, docent i socialt arbete, Lunds universitet; Tove Samzelius, doktor i socialt arbete, Malmö universitet och Hanna Wikström, docent i socialt arbete, Göteborgs universitet.
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- Dahlstedt, Magnus, et al.
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Rörelse, motstånd, förändring
- 2021
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Ingår i: Socialt arbete - Rörelser, gränser, liv. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144143163 ; , s. 13-34
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Dahlstedt, Magnus, et al.
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Rörelse, motstånd, förändring
- 2021. - 1
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Ingår i: Socialt arbete. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144143163 ; , s. 13-31
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Inledningkapitel till antologin Socialt arbete: rörelse, motstånd, förändring
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- Herz, Marcus, 1978-, et al.
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“I’ll have security, I’ll go to school, I’ll live my life” : unaccompanied minors on school, education and racism
- 2021. - 1
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Ingår i: Violence, victimisation and young people. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030753184 - 9783030753191 ; , s. 209-224
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter, we will use ethnographic data to investigate how young unaccompanied people talk about school and school life in relation to racism and administrative violence. Like Philippe Bourgois (1995/2003), we argue that ethnography is suitable to studying how oppressive structures penetrate people’s everyday life, including their emotional life. We will first address how the young people themselves talk about the value of school and education. Going to school, however, is affected by specific terms and conditions, creating obstacles related to their position as unaccompanied young students. This is first discussed in general terms, before we delve into four themes related to such obstacles and challenges: family, religion, racism, as well as expectations and adaptations. The chapter ends with a summary discussion of what we consider precarious schooling.
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