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- Abram, Simone, et al.
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The free movement of people around the world would be Utopian : IUAES World Congress 2013
- 2017
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Ingår i: Identities. - 1070-289X .- 1547-3384. ; 24:2, s. 123-155
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article contains the text and discussion of a debate held at the IUAES World Congress in Anthropology at Manchester University in 2013. The motion was proposed by Bela Feldman-Bianco (State University of Campinas), seconded by Noel Salazar (University of Leuven) and was opposed by Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University), seconded by Nicholas de Genova (then at Goldsmiths' College). The debate was chaired by Simone Abram (Durham University).
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- Behtoui, Alireza, 1958-
(författare)
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Constructions of self-identification : children of immigrants in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Identities. - : Routledge. - 1070-289X .- 1547-3384. ; 28:3, s. 341-360
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is about self-identification by a sample of young people with various migrant backgrounds in Sweden. In a survey we asked them how they present themselves to others in different contexts (in their schools and neighbourhoods or when they are out of Sweden). Our findings suggest that young people’s identification is not fixed. The paths to these various forms of identification are shaped by a variety of individual (class background, parents’ country of origin) and social factors (friendship networks and school composition). The results indicate that those who identified themselves as Swedish or hyphenated tended to be quite similar as regards their other characteristics, while those who presented themselves with the parents’ birth country or religious affiliation have very little in common.
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- Borevi, Karin, 1968-
(författare)
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Multiculturalism and welfare state integration : Swedish model path dependency
- 2014
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Ingår i: Identities. - 1070-289X .- 1547-3384. ; 21:6, s. 708-723
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present article offers an account of Swedish integration policies in the post-war period. The theoretical purpose is to assess Christian Joppke’s hypothesis that recent trends of integration policy convergence have rendered the national model approach analytically useless. The analysis shows that Sweden deviates, in some important respects, from the European trend by not formulating demands that link integration achievements to immigrants’ access to fundamental rights. The conclusion is that the Swedish case does not support Joppke’s hypothesis, but rather indicates that path dependency of national models is a valid explanation to ongoing developments. It is argued that the Swedish exception should be understood as an expression of the persistent impact of a policy logic according to which integration requires that all citizens have equal and universal access to certain fundamental rights. The article builds on general comparisons with European policy developments and uses Denmark as a more specific reference point.
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- Clavier, Berndt, et al.
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Art for integration : political rationalities and technologies of governmentalisation in the city of Malmö
- 2014
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Ingår i: Multiculturalism and the Arts in European Cities. - : Routledge. - 9781138795525 - 9781315758381 ; 21:1, s. 10-25
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cities increasingly use artistic and cultural activities to promote active citizenship and social cohesion. We suggest that city-sponsored cultural and artistic practices in Sweden are finding a new discursive context in migration. In this article, we look at two artistic and cultural institutions in Malmö, Sweden: Arena 305 and Drömmarnas hus. We develop a typology of governmentalisation based on the work of Nicholas Rose and Peter Miller, which allows us to describe the governing activity of Arena 305 and Drömmarnas hus. What becomes visible is the discrepancy between the moral form of the political rationalities and the technologies of government: even though institutions may harbour ideals and principles of inclusion, they are perfectly capable of sustaining activities that brighten the very boundaries they set out to challenge.
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- Clavier, Berndt, et al.
(författare)
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Art for integration : political rationalities and technologies of governmentalisation in the city of Malmö
- 2014
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Ingår i: Identities. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1070-289X .- 1547-3384. ; 21:1, s. 10-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cities increasingly use artistic and cultural activities to promote active citizenship and social cohesion. We suggest that city-sponsored cultural and artistic practices in Sweden are finding a new discursive context in migration. In this article, we look at two artistic and cultural institutions in Malmö, Sweden: Arena 305 and Drömmarnas hus. We develop a typology of governmentalisation based on the work of Nicholas Rose and Peter Miller, which allows us to describe the governing activity of Arena 305 and Drömmarnas hus. What becomes visible is the discrepancy between the moral form of the political rationalities and the technologies of government: even though institutions may harbour ideals and principles of inclusion, they are perfectly capable of sustaining activities that brighten the very boundaries they set out to challenge.
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- Demirel, Cagla, et al.
(författare)
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Competitive victimhood and reconciliation : the case of Turkish–Armenian relations
- 2020
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Ingår i: Identities. - : Routledge. - 1070-289X .- 1547-3384. ; 27:5, s. 537-556
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper argues that conflicts tend to be intractable if collective victimhood has become a component of national identity, and when conflicting communities claim to be the ‘real’ or ‘only’ victims, and that their suffering justifies crimes past and present. Turkish and Armenian narratives of competitive victimhood are analysed drawing on public opinion polls from Turkey and Armenia, and personal interviews with Turks and Armenians. The study corroborates past theory and research that competitive victimhood prevents reconciliation, particularly if it has become an essential part of national identity. The paper also shows that Turkish–Armenian relations remain at the bottom stage of the reconciliation ladder. Yet, some of our empirical observations suggest that when grass-roots level interaction between Turks and Armenians is facilitated (which has been prevented not least because of the closed border), there is room for the abandonment of competitive victimhood at least on an interpersonal level, if not on a general societal or political level.
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- Herz, Marcus
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‘Becoming’ a possible threat : masculinity, culture and questioning among unaccompanied young men in Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Identities. - : Routledge. - 1070-289X .- 1547-3384. ; 26:4, s. 431-449
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A debate on masculinity and immigration rose across Europe in 2015 after an incident with sexual harassments taking place in Cologne, Germany. The incident refuelled a debate positioning unaccompanied young men as a possible threat. This article is based on a research project where we during this time ethnographically followed 20 young men, having arrived in Sweden as ‘unaccompanied’ minors. The aim is to examine how the young men themselves talk about, reflect on and negotiate masculinity and gender during this period. The article concludes that masculinity cannot be approached as something stable easily being inherited or transferred from one’s origins. One difference for ‘unaccompanied’ young men is how conflicts or tensions emerging in relation to issues of gender and masculinity tend to be interpreted differently, and publicly, putting the young men in a ‘gendered situation of questioning’.
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- Karlsson, Bengt G
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Indigenous politics : commmunity formation and indigenous peoples' struggle for self-deterrmination in North-East India
- 2001
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Ingår i: Identities. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1070-289X .- 1547-3384. ; 8:1, s. 7-45
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper deals with a number of questions relating to politics based on “ethnicity” or community belonging among “tribal” or indigenous peoples in India's northeastern region. In particular, I probe the complex question of indigenous peoples’ right to self‐determination, a right that most indigenous organizations in the world regard as crucial and that is central to the UN draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Autonomy or self‐determination, in one form or another, is on the agenda of more or less all mobilized communities in Northeast India. In multi‐ethnic contexts, however, it is not easy to translate such demands into viable political solutions. By discussing several different cases, the contemporary Bodoland movement, the Naga struggle for sovereignty, and the mobilization of the Rabha people, the paper brings the issue of indigenous politics in India into focus.
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- Khosravi, Shahram, et al.
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Reordering Public and Private in Iranian Cyberspace: Identity, Politics and Mobilization’
- 2010
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Ingår i: Identities. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1070-289X .- 1547-3384. ; 9:2, s. 219-246
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The capacity of cyberspace to bypass some of the spatial divisions that underpin social inequality endows it with political significance. This article examines some of the ways in which cyberspace has contributed to redrawing the boundaries between public and private and some of the consequences of this for people, things, and ideas in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. It shows how cyberspace influences a wide range of political phenomena including political mobilization and censorship, intergenerational communication, identity formation, sexuality, sense of belonging, and forms and location of symbolic capital. The relationship between net users in the diaspora and cyberspace involves a circuit of reorderings of one's understanding of the diaspora, one's contact with it in cyberspace, of one's own ideas on the basis of what one finds there, and of social relationships established and maintained in cyberspace. Paradoxically, the very richness and diversity of the ideas and opinions found in Iranian cyberspace may undermine the idea of there actually being a single Iranian diaspora.
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- Lazoroska, Daniela
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Eating bodies, growing selves in a Brazilian favela
- 2021
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Ingår i: Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1547-3384 .- 1070-289X. ; 28:3, s. 286-302
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The economic growth of Brazil in the early and mid-2000s has created opportunities for people like my interlocutors, the young and media-savvy residents of Brazilian favelas to consume and partake in a global market of the production of the self. These have nourished their pursuit for diversity and difference and shaped the eclectic qualities of their consumption practices. In its plural forms, consumption, or eating, which will take centre stage in this article, has enabled an expanded palette and palate of being, acting and relishing life in the favela. I argue that eating can be understood as a method of becoming; it can be used as an active attempt at asserting agency over one’s body and, by extension, at asserting subjectivity in a lifeworld open to multiple dimensions of uncertainty and insecurity.
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