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- Aman, Robert, 1982-
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The Double Bind of Interculturality and the Implications for Education
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Intercultural Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0725-6868 .- 1469-9540. ; 36:2, s. 149-165
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores the ways in which boundaries of estrangement are produced in the academic literature assigned for courses on interculturality. As the existence of interculturality is dependent on the ascription of content to culture – since the notion, by definition, always involves more than one singular culture – this essay seeks to provide an answer to the question of what this literature, implicitly or otherwise, defines in terms of sameness vis-à-vis otherness, and thereby to chart the conditions for becoming intercultural. This question is especially important because the self in interculturality has to be, in principle, generalizable: it should signify a position available for occupation by anybody with proper training in this approach. Starting from the assumption that different experiences, languages and identities, already intersect and are indeed already intercultural before being subjected to study under the auspices of ‘interculturality’ as an educational topic, the essay goes on to problematize the way in which interculturality tends to construe sameness and difference along national lines and does little to cater for multiple, as opposed to national, or other unified, identities.
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- Bhambra, Gurminder K., 1974-
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Undoing the Epistemic Disavowal of the Haitian Revolution : A Contribution to Global Social Thought
- 2016
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Ingår i: Journal of Intercultural Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0725-6868 .- 1469-9540. ; 37:1, s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Haitian Revolution is not only one of the most important foundational moments in the emergence of the modern world, but also one of the most neglected within the social scientific literature. In this article, I ask what can be learnt, both from its omission from accounts of events claimed to be of ‘world historical’ significance, and from how social theory would need to be re-thought once we took such events seriously. In particular, I want to examine what is at stake in such rethinking and how we might consider alternative formulations through an approach I call ‘connected sociologies’.
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- Hudson, Christine, 1950-, et al.
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Integrating the immigrant the Swedish way? Understandings of citizenship and integration in Swedish local civic integration projects
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Intercultural Studies. - : Routledge. - 0725-6868 .- 1469-9540. ; 44:4, s. 553-569
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, integration is a pressing issue particularly following the large influx of immigrants in 2015. Swedish municipalities play an important role in civic integration, with responsibility for newly arrived immigrants receiving a basic understanding of Swedish society, their rights and obligations. We analyse data from 204 applications granted funding 2016/2017 for projects improving the integration of refugees into society by co-operation between municipalities and other actors. Using thematic analysis, we identify two broad themes. One concerning the ‘what’ of integration–the Swedish values, norms and behaviours that immigrants are expected to learn in order to become ‘good’ Swedish citizens, and the other concerning the means or the ‘how’ of integration. However, although these projects are well-meaning, they may have normalizing and disciplining effects whereby the immigrant is constructed as subordinate, as the Other. Swedish gender-equality is heavily emphasized and we see how, in relation to this, the immigrant is constructed as unmodern, bound by tradition and unequal. Particularly immigrant women are produced as passive objects rather than active subjects, in need of special women’s activities and lacking as parents in comparison with the Swedish ideal.
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- Lundström, Catrin, 1970-
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Women With Class : Swedish Migrant Women's Class Positions in the USA
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Intercultural Studies. - London : Routledge. - 0725-6868 .- 1469-9540. ; 31:1, s. 49-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines gender- and nation-specific forms of capital through migration. It focuses on first-generation Swedish women moving to a new social and political landscape in the United States (US), typically from upper- and middle-class environments in Sweden. Their migratory experiences are used as a departure to analyse how former class positions are being re-enacted (or not) in the neo-liberal US. The study, conducted from 2006-2008, is based on in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with 33 women and three of their spouses and participant observations in a support group for Swedish-speaking women in the Western region of the US. Using an intersectional analysis, it is suggested that Swedish women are located in contradictory class positions in the US in terms of the loss of social and cultural capital, access to the social democratic welfare state and a dependence on racialised labour in a different social geography. It is argued that the women’s class privileges are shaped, transformed and reproduced through their capacities to re-invest their cultural and embodied forms of capital in marriage and by marking a distance to subordinated groups, often other migrant women, thereby mirroring the unequal relations between (migrating) women in a global arena.
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- Löf, Camilla
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Interrupting 'the Other' Childhood : On Social Circus in Asylum Accommodations
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Intercultural Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0725-6868 .- 1469-9540. ; 42:2, s. 143-159
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social circus has emerged as a complement to regular health and welfare interventions for identified target groups, often striving for social change. Previous studies point out the challenge of identifying target groups without simultaneously positioning said groups as 'others'. Although children and childhood are intimately intertwined with circus, not least as target groups for circus arts interventions, there are no previous studies that examine constitutions of childhood through social circus. This article is based on a 1.5-year long ethnographic fieldwork on a project using circus in asylum accommodations in Sweden. The aim is to explore the childhood(s) constituted through social circus practice in asylum accommodations in Sweden, with focus on the work of the social circus team. The analysis draws upon childhood sociology informed by critical theory, asking what discursive positions are offered the target group through the social circus project. The analysis shows that when identifying the target group, the team navigated through contradictory discourses. Establishing and upholding a discourse on childhood as playful, the circus activities interrupted the positioning of children in dislocation as 'others'. The design of the project, as well as the ever-shifting roles in the interaction between all participants, enabled new positions for all.
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- Osanami Törngren, Sayaka
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Challenging the ‘Swedish’ and ‘Immigrant’ Dichotomy : How do Multiracial and Multi-ethnic Swedes Identify Themselves?
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Intercultural Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0725-6868 .- 1469-9540. ; 41:4, s. 457-473
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A global trend has shown an increase in intimate partnerships across nationality, race, ethnicity, and religion. As a result, the children of these unions (i.e. multiethnic and multiracial persons) are undeniably part of contemporary Swedish society. This study is one of the first studies in Sweden that solely focuses on the multiracial and multiethnic population and their identity. Based on 21 qualitative interviews, this article explores how mixed Swedes identify themselves and how they experience that they are identified by others. The analysis shows that, contrary to the flexibility in how mixed Swedes identify themselves, mixed Swedes experience that people in society categorize them in a fixed idea of ‘either-or’. The idea of being Swedish is strongly connected to the idea of being white; therefore, many mixed Swedes with a non-white phenotype experience that their identification as Swedish is questioned, and a feeling of misrecognition emerge. However, mixed Swedes who can pass as Swedish also feeling constraints in claiming their identity and feel misrecognized especially when they identify themselves as ‘mixed’.
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- Räthzel, Nora, 1948-
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The injuries of the margins and the restorative power of the political : How young people with migrant backgrounds create their capacity to act
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Intercultural Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0725-6868 .- 1469-9540. ; 31:5, s. 541-555
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents some ways in which young people of a migrant background in Sweden handle their marginalisation at a time of transition from school to higher education. The stories of two young men are discussed, who develop opposing strategies to cope with the double bind created by a society that promotes meritocracy but acts on the basis of racialised exclusionary practices. One is forced into the position of immigrant while wanting to be recognised as Swede. The other has more possibilities to be recognised as Swedish but chooses to define himself as immigrant and to understand his experiences through a political analysis of racism in Swedish society. While the conflict in which the former finds himself leads to a state of paralysis, the later is able to de-individualise his position and thus to integrate his different belongings. It is argued that while the celebration of hybridity and multicultural capabilities is crucial, it is also important to recognise how marginalisation and discrimination hamper young people's capacity to act.
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