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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, s. 1-16
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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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- di Matteo, Claudia, et al.
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1.4 Migration and Asylum Policy in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Guide on conceptual and methodological issues in social work research in the field of human mobility. - Granada, Spain : Global-ANSWER Network “Social Work and Human Mobility”. - 9788409553648 ; , s. 42-50
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter was published within the report Guide on conceptual and methodological issues in social work research in the field of human mobility, coordinated by R.T. Di Rosa, M.T. Gijón Sánchez, M.T. & G. Gucciardo, describes the migration and asylum policy in Sweden. The report is part of the dissemination of results from the EU-funded, Horizon 2020, Global-ANSWER, project Global social work and human mobility: comparative studies on local government andgood social work practices in the euro-mediterranean region (2020-2025).
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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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- Montesino, Norma, et al.
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Migration and Asylum Policy in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Guide on conceptual and methodological issues in social work research in the field of human mobility. - 9788409553648 ; , s. 42-50
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Runge, Ida, 1976-
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"Jag vill gärna ha hjälp, men ta inte mina barn" : Föräldraskap hos föräldrar med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Parents with intellectual disabilities are seldomly heard in research about parenting. Based on the parents’ own voices, this thesis contributes to deepened knowledge about parenting among persons with intellectual disability. By listening to twenty-three parents, my purpose has been to illuminate how parents themselves understand their parenting. The study is mainly based on an interactionist perspective and focuses on how parenting is done. To deal with the stigmatizing perceptions and to ward off a perceived threat that the children may be taken from them, the parents use several strategies. These strategies function as a way of counteracting the questioning of their parenting, but above all the parents emphasize giving their children a good childhood. In general, the parents experience that their care practices work well when children’s needs are practical and arise in a routinized close to everyday reality. With higher demands on the ability to improvise and financial resources, care is perceived as a greater challenge. Experiences of being listened to and receiving support can counteract feelings of being made suspicious and can promote autonomy and security. But the support can also give rise to feelings of dependence. This is especially valid for women.
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- Elsrud, Torun, et al.
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Precariousness among young migrants in Europe : A consequence of exclusionary mechanisms within state-controlled neoliberal social work in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Critical and radical social work An international journal. - Bristol : Policy Press. - 2049-8608 .- 2049-8675. ; 10:1, s. 77-92
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This ethnographic article addresses social work’s participation in exclusionary practices performed by migration authorities in Sweden, leading to extreme precariousness among young people searching for protection. Through ethnographic descriptions of young people who fled from Sweden to other European countries, we argue that Swedish social workers played an active role in depriving young people of their social rights. A central concept in the article is administrative violence. Such institutionalised violence risks being excluded from a moral assessment. We argue that moral responsibility is not about following state rules, but may instead involve acting in a way that rules do not support. If social work accepts the boundaries of the nation-state, its border work and the logics of neoliberal ideologies, it cannot live up to the ethical standards of social work and its emphasis on social justice.
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- Fredriksson, Matilda
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Fostran till anställningsbarhet : Ungas berättelser inifrån den kommunala arbetsmarknadspolitiken
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The issue of unemployment has become individualised. In recent decades, Swedish social- and labour market policies have changed towards an emphasis on activation, which places greater demands on the job seeker to actively seek work, participate in employment initiatives and improve their employability. This thesis studies how these requirements are expressed in the municipal activation of young people (18-29 years of age). The purpose of the study is to highlight and problematise the activation’s creation of employable individuals and its consequences for young people’s identity work.The study is based on ethnographic field work in an activation programme. The data consists of field notes, interviews and audio recordings from the programme’s daily activities and the young people’s tripartite meetings with public employment officers, which are also attended by staff from the activation programme. Based on Goffman’s perspective on total institutions and an interactionist, discursive and narrative approach, the study illustrates activation from the point of view of the programme participants’ own perspectives and narratives.The analysis shows how the programme screens young people from their environment and at the same time monitors and controls them. A daily schedule has to be followed, which means that all the young people do the same activity at the same time. The analysis identifies the prominent discourses that set the framework for the design of the activation and the everyday activities, as well as how the young people’s situations and needs are understood. The participants are categorised as “problem young people” with faults and failings. Included in the activation is a desire to change them into employable and capable individuals who can fit into the adult world. However, it is the young people who are responsible for working on themselves in accordance with the prevailing ideals. Thus, it is not primarily about reinforcing their competences in aspects like education and experience of working life. Rather, the young people are encouraged to adopt new ways of thinking and characteristics, such as being active, flexible, reflexive, well-behaved and accepting responsibility. They are challenged to show motivation, self-confidence and social and communicative skills. By encouraging the young people to change themselves and adopt certain personal characteristics, the activation conveys the image of unemployment as a personal problem that requires a personal solution, rather than a social problem. In the young people’s narratives, the activation is depicted as meaningless in that the programme does not lead to employment. At the same time, the young people say that the programme has given them new values and ways of seeing themselves. The activation can therefore be understood as a practice of normalisation as well as a semi-total institution that disciplines and changes the participants.
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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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