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- Groglopo, Adrián, 1967, et al.
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Rasismen kläs på nytt i en gammal toleransdräkt
- 2015
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Ingår i: Feministiskt Perspektiv. - 2002-1542.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Andra inlägget i debatten om rasismforskningens villkor är skrivet av Adrián Groglopo och Lena Sawyer, som ställer sig kritiska till regeringens och Göteborgs universitets ideologiska utgångspunkter. I synnerhet kritiserar de föreställningen om tolerans. De vill gärna se mer maktkritiska perspektiv.
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Antirasistisk Ordbok
- 2015
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Språk är ett viktigt medel i kampen för rättvisa. Den här ordboken samlar ett antal begrepp som är grundläggande för den antirasistiska kampen som förs idag i Sverige och i resten av Europa. Det är en samling av begrepp som har definierats och förklarats av ett flertal antirasistiska forskare i Sverige där många av oss är verksamma och anknutna till föreningen Antirasistiska Akademin.
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- Bahner, Julia
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Risky business? Organizing sexual facilitation in Swedish personal assistance services
- 2016
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. - : Stockholm University Press. - 1501-7419 .- 1745-3011. ; 18:2, s. 164-175
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite nearly two decades of disability research highlighting the need to take greater account of disabled people's sexualities, sexuality is still largely a taboo subject in disability services, thus limiting service users’ possibilities to express their sexuality. In this article, I aim to show how Swedish personal assistance managers organize sexual facilitation, that is, assistance from personnel in service users’ sexual engagement. The article draws on findings from a focus group study with managers of municipal and private service providers. Three main themes are discussed: the managers’ different ways of organizing sexual facilitation; how they conceptualize sexuality and normality; and risk management practices. I argue that societal discourse on sexual normality greatly influences managers’ views on and strategies for organizing sexual facilitation. Hence, sexual facilitation in personal assistance services is viewed as a non-normative form of sexuality and a work-related risk rather than a possibility to increase service users’ sexual rights.
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- Bahner, Julia
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The power of discretion and the discretion of power: personal assistants and sexual facilitation in disability services
- 2013
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Ingår i: Vulnerable Groups & Inclusion. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2000-8023. ; 4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim: The purpose of this article is to explore how personal assistants, working in state-funded services for mobility-disabled people in Sweden, perceive and experience their work, with special focus on sexual facilitation (assistance with sexual activities). Background: Personal assistance services are a legal right, aiming to give certain disabled people the possibility to live on equal terms in society with non-disabled citizens. The services are to be grounded on the principles of self-determination, autonomy, integrity, and user influence according to independent-living ideology. However, the legislation does not mention sexuality, and in addition, there are often no local policies; hence, it is unclear what service users can demand in terms of sexual facilitation, and on the assistants’ part, what is and what is not acceptable to assist with. Methods: The methods used to gather data were interviews with 15 personal assistants as well as observations in an online discussion forum for personal assistants. Findings: The analysis suggests that personal assistants may experience that there is a taboo against discussing sexual facilitation in the workplace. There are no predetermined policies, regulations, or ethical codes of conduct regarding sexual facilitation, and the personal assistants’ discretion is therefore strong. Different strategies for managing this discretion were identified, greatly influenced by personal values, as well as societal norms. Conclusion: The normative context of discretion is highly visible, suggesting the importance of uncovering the interplay between the power dimensions of sexuality, disability, gender, and professionalism.
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- Ålund, Aleksandra, 1945-, et al.
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Multikulturalismens paradoxer
- 2022
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - Växjö, Sweden : Förbundet för Forskning i Socialt Arbete. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 28:3, s. 347-358
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- Ekström, Veronica, 1975-
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Det besvärliga våldet : Socialtjänstens stöd till kvinnor som utsatts för våld i nära relationer
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I avhandlingen analyseras hur våldsutsatta kvinnors behov tolkas, omförhandlas och anpassas för att kunna hanteras inom socialtjänstens organisation. Avhandlingens övergripande frågeställningar fokuserar på insatser och behov, betydelsen av socialtjänstens organisering och betydelsen av socialarbetarnas handlingsutrymme. Avhandlingen baseras på kvalitativa analyser av statliga propositioner, intervjuer med socialarbetare och med kvinnor som varit utsatta för våld i nära relationer. Det teoretiska ramverket bygger bland annat på Frasers (1989) teoretiska perspektiv som tar sin utgångspunkt i samhällets tolkningar av människors/gruppers behov av stöd, nyinstitutionell teori och teorier om gatubyråkrater. Avhandlingen visar att socialarbetares tolkningar är centrala aspekter av förhandlingen om hur våldsutsatta kvinnors behov och rätt till stöd ska förstås. Ett viktigt resultat i avhandlingen är att stödet till våldsutsatta kvinnor blir så pass olika. Avhandlingen ger inga svar i kvantitativa termer på hur olikheten är fördelad, men den ger exempel på hur olikheten tar sig uttryck. I kommuner där specialiseringen innebär att socialarbetarna på socialkontoret i första hand utreder behov och fattar beslut om insatser, måste det också finnas adekvata insatser att besluta om. Saknas det så erbjuds inte heller något stöd. Stödet till kvinnor som utsatts för våld i nära relationer blir också olika eftersom socialarbetare ställer olika krav eller sätter upp olika trösklar för att kvinnor ska få stöd. Avhandlingen visar att både gemensam kunskap och gemensam syn på sociala problem är centralt för att samarbetet inom den specialiserade socialtjänstens ska fungera och i längden också för vilket stöd människor kommer att erbjudas.
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- Dahlstedt, Magnus, et al.
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Problematizing parents : representations of multi-ethnic areas, youth and urban unrest
- 2017
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Ingår i: Reimagineering the nation. - Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Publishing Group. - 9783631715185 - 9783631715208 - 3631715188 ; , s. 209-233
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The causes of and solutions to juvenile delinquency and social unrest amongthe youth in so-called Swedish multi-ethnic urban areas are frequently represented inpublic-institutional discourse as related to migrant parents. These are, the authors argue,consequently exposed to policies for ‘activation’, ‘responsibilisation’ and ‘normalisation’.
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- Knezevic, Zlatana, 1984-
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A Cry for Care But not Justice : Embodied Vulnerabilities and the Moral Economy of Child Welfare
- 2020
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Ingår i: Affilia. - : SAGE Publications. - 0886-1099 .- 1552-3020. ; 35:2, s. 231-245
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores the pivotal role of the body for political recognition and rights claims in child welfare "moral" interventions. I examine how the bodily figures in child welfare assessments, linking these manifestations to the concept of the moral economy of care. A sample of assessment reports from a Swedish municipality, all addressing violations of children's bodies or integrity, are used as empirical material. I show how the psychosomatically suffering child is being best "heard" as vulnerable. I also argue that such a moral economy of care silences children's accounts of gendered and racial injustices. Furthermore, racialized moral divides are indicated when assessments of different child bodies are considered. A concluding remark points to need for a child welfare moral economy of social justice that responds to structural intersecting injustices in childhoods, including to those of a racialized child welfare and its individualized and symptom-oriented services.
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- Schierup, Carl-Ulrik, 1948-, et al.
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Migration : ett hot mot välfärden?
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Ingår i: Nation i ombildning. - Stockholm : Boréa Bokförlag. - 9789189140950 ; , s. 31-77
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den svenska samhällsekonomiska modellensupplösning under 2000-talet har följts av en djup politisk kris. Det är enkris som har tagits till intäkt för den upprepade berättelsen om liberalt präglad invandrings- och mångfaldspolitik som misslyckat experiment. Författarna ifrågasätter denna berättelse genom attvända på argumentet om det negativa förhållandet mellan migrationoch välfärdsstatlig solidaritet. De hävdar således att det främst är deneuropeiska och svenska åtstramningspolitiken som sedan tidigt 90-talhar undergrävt samhällets socialpolitiska integrationspotential, skapat fördjupade etniskt präglade klasskillnader, permanentat social exkluderingav stora befolkningsgrupper från sociala och medborgerliga rättigheter,samt i sin konsekvens medfört bristande solidaritet kring välfärdsstatens institutioner.
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- Bahner, Julia, et al.
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Who Counts as a Sexual Subject? The Impact of Ableist Rhetoric for People with Intellectual Disability in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sexuality Research and Social Policy. - 1868-9884 .- 1553-6610.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction: The ableist rhetoric around sexuality in disability services and beyond can hinder subjective sexual expression and have a powerful impact on health, self-esteem, and everyday life through internalized ableism, structural marginalization, and interpersonal discrimination. The aim of this study was to explore the ableist rhetoric of sexuality and its impact on sexual scripting for people with intellectual disability. Methods: A thematic analysis was carried out on data generated through ethnographic fieldwork at five sheltered accommodations and semi-structured interviews with ten individuals with intellectual disability. Results: The results show that people in Sweden with intellectual disability are desexualized within a moral order that is maintained in post-institutional social care. Through this moral order, which is deeply embedded in an ableist rhetoric about sexual relationships, sexual scripting for disabled people is constrained both inside post-institutional social care initiatives, and in the broader community of “ableist environments.” In response, disabled people employ various strategies of resistance. Conclusions: A rhetoric of positive sexuality should be a guiding principle for successfully supporting the development of sexual agency on each individual’s own term. Policy Implications: We conclude by encouraging the development of initiatives that will empower and support people with intellectual disability to learn about their sexual rights and to find solutions that allow for development of sexual agency and subjectivity.
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- Bahner, Julia
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Sexual professionalism: for whom? The case of sexual facilitation in Swedish personal assistance services
- 2015
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Ingår i: Disability & Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0968-7599 .- 1360-0508. ; 30:5, s. 788-801
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sexuality is a taboo subject in disability services, leading to insecurity for both service users and personnel about how to handle upcoming situations. In Sweden, there is also a lack of policy in this area, highlighting the need to study sexuality both as an individual and a political, and in this case also, depoliticized issue. A critical feminist policy analysis reveals that norms around disability, sexuality and professionalism in a particular legal, political and cultural context strongly influence the willingness to recognize disabled people’s sexual rights. The Swedish case indicates a need for increased transnational work to develop ethical, professional and non-discriminatory rights-based approaches to sexual facilitation.
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- Elmqvist, Anna, et al.
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Omsorgen om landsbygdens äldsta : Kommuner och civilsamhälle i fokus
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I denna skrift redovisas resultat från projektet ”Omsorgen om landsbygdens äldsta. Kommunens och civilsamhällets omsorgsnätverk i semi-rurala miljöer”. Syftet med projektet är att öka kunskapen om hur äldre som bor på landsbygden själva ser på sitt åldrande, vad man är engagerad i, hur man vill bo och vilket stöd och vilken hjälp man har och ger till andra. I projektet studeras hur några mindre landsbygdskommuner ordnar äldreomsorgen och hur kommunerna och vissa lokala aktörer förhåller sig till äldres behov och intresse.Fokus i denna skrift riktas mot kommunens sätt att organisera och genomföra omsorg, samt hur den är kopplad till det civila samhällets aktörer. Materialet som ingår har insamlats i de tre kommunerna Valdemarsvik, Ydre och Åtvidaberg. I denna skrift redovisas resultat från intervjuer som genomförts med representanter för dessa kommuner (kommunalråd, kommunchef, omsorgschef ). Redovisningen av intervjuerna berör de intervjuades syn på den egna kommunens förutsättningar, kommunernas strategier och framtidssyn. Skriften innehåller också resultat från intervjuer med representanter från civilsamhället, seniorföreningar (PRO:s och SPF:s ordförande, vice ordförande, styrelseledamot) och kyrka (diakon, präst). I dessa intervjuer berörs synen på förhållandena för kommunens äldsta, samt civilsamhällets roll som omsorgsaktör.Trots att de tre kommunerna kan förefalla likartade, visar studiens resultat på skillnader dem mellan. I Åtvidaberg finns ett tydligare centralortsfokus än i de andra två kommunerna. Även om Ydre som är en liten kommun också har en given centralort dit verksamheter koncentreras, finns ett tydligare landsbygdsfokus. Ydre är en skogs- och jordbrukskommun med en hög andel egna företagare. Inom kustkommunen Valdemarsvik förs ett tydligare resonemang om hur man ska kunna erbjuda service i olika kommundelar, något som man upplever att kommuninvånarna är angelägna om. Valdemarsvik består av flera relativt självständiga samhällen vilka tidigare var egna kommuner och som månar om sin egen självständighet. Arbetet i kommunen har även präglats av resonemanget ”hela kommunen ska leva”. I de två kommunerna Ydre och Valdemarsvik, har man poängterat att närheten till sitt lokalsamhälle liksom personkännedom är viktiga faktorer i äldreomsorgen, medan man i Åtvidaberg i större utsträckning har utgått från att man bättre tillfredsställer äldre personers behov genom att äldre kommer närmare service och tillgänglighet i centralorten. Den stora frågan i alla tre kommunerna är hur man ska kunna erbjuda äldreomsorg med samma kvalitet som idag till en växande andel äldre men med minskande skatteintäkter. Här är dock inställningen att det är något som måste lösas på nationell nivå t ex genom utjämningsbidrag för att man ska kunna åldras på jämlika villkor nationellt.Frågor som är ständigt aktuella i kommunerna gäller hur man ska kunna tillfredsställa tillgänglighet till servicefunktioner för dem som bor längre ut i kommunerna, utanför centralorten eller de större samhällena. Kollektivtrafiken på landsbygden utgör en stor kostnad och turtätheten minskar kontinuerligt. För dem som inte längre kan köra bil kan detta bli en avgörande fråga för om man kan bo kvar eller ej. Färdtjänst täcker en del av behovet liksom anropsstyrd trafik, men fungerar sämre för att upprätthålla sociala kontakter som huvudsakligen sker på kvällstid eller helger. Att kunna erbjuda äldre bra och funktionella bostäder är ytterligare en fråga som tas upp. Man är beroende av att någon vill erbjuda bostäder samt att det finns en betalningsvilja hos äldre personer för den typen av bostäder, båda dessa faktorer upplevs som problematiska. Idén att främja kvarboende kan å ena sidan förstås i ljuset av att det är en kostnadseffektiv strategi i en tid där decentralisering ställer ökade krav på kommuner att själva sörja för sin välgång och där medborgarnas resurser och hälsa blir allt viktigare för utvecklingen i lokala miljöer. Å andra sidan kan kvarboendeprincipen ses som en form av nyliberal vision som betonar inte bara regioners utan också enskilda individers egenansvar, självtillräcklighet och valfrihet.Sammantaget ter sig ett friskt och aktivt åldrande – förkroppsligat i kvarboende – ofta både nödvändigt och önskvärt. Mycket av strategierna går ut på att den äldre människans vardag ska kunna fortsätta att fungera som förut. Omsorgen går ut på att bevara förmågor. När det gäller att skapa ett äldrevänligt samhälle med goda kommunikationer kommenterade exempelvis en av studiens informanter: ”Så folk ska kunna få sin vardag att, så länge som möjligt, vara ganska lik den man har haft förut”.Från kommunernas sida räknar man med att verksamheten i större utsträckning kommer att koncentreras till att möta äldres grundläggande behov, något som i skriften betecknas anpassningslogik. Man förutsätter då att andra aktörer än kommunerna ska tillfredsställa övriga behov, men riktigt hur det ska gå till är ibland oklart. Det kan gälla dels privata marknadsaktörer som dock är beroende av ekonomisk lönsamhet, dels frivilligorganisationer och anhöriga. Föreningsliv och kyrkan uppfattas som viktiga komplement av såväl kommunen som av organisationerna själva. De äldre ses som en resurs för den egna gruppen, samtidigt som representanter för kyrkan och frivilligorganisationerna menar att människor inte alltid är benägna att be om hjälp ens av närstående. Föreningar och frivilligverksamheter står för en stor del av aktiviteterna på landsbygden men är beroende av eldsjälar och kontinuiteten är därför osäker. Det finns dock en optimism om att det sker generationsskiften även inom dessa verksamheter som bidrar till att göra fortlevnaden möjlig. Föreningsliv och dylikt blir ett sätt att skapa ringar på vattnet, att vara ett forum där sociala nätverk kan etableras och fortsätta växa på egen hand. I studien framgår även att många äldre själva fyller en viktig roll både som omsorgsgivare och för det sociala livet i stort.I skriften skisseras olika vägar för att lösa den brännande frågan om hur den mindre kommunen kan möta en framtid med krympande kommunstorlek och samtidigt tillförsäkra god service till en åldrande befolkning. Sannolikt är det så att olika lösningar passar olika väl i olika typer av kommuner och för olika typer av frågor. Ett resultat som framkommer i skriften är att de lokala förhållandena behöver bli en utgångspunkt för den planering som sker för att möta framtiden. Kan hända är det olika lokala initiativ som gör en verklig skillnad, initiativ som kan genomföras med stöd från regional och statlig nivå. Lösningen kan i många fall handla om att finna en balans mellan politiska ambitioner, framåtanda och anpassningslogik.
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- Littmarck, Sofia, 1983-
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Barn, föräldrar, välfärdsstat : Den politiska debatten om föräldrautbildning och föräldrastöd 1964-2009
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The political debate concerning parent education and parenting support between 1964 and 2009 has been scrutinized in this study in the light of the development of and changes in the welfare state. The investigation is based upon the analysis of official government inquiries and parliamentary papers dealing with parent education and parenting support. This study analyzes the different choices in the organization of welfare relevant to children and the family for which political actors have argued, and it examines the views on the relations between children, parents, family and the welfare state that were expressed in the argumentation. Parent education and parenting support aim at changing the living conditions of children by means of the parents. The study shows that the interest in this type of investment has been shared by both the political left and center-right, but from different arguments and political visions on how welfare for children and families with children should be organized, as well as from different views of the role of parent education and parenting support in the welfare.
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- Nordh, Jonas
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Social citizenship and people with dementia : Designing social care policies in Sweden
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- People with dementia are commonly in need of some form of social care from the social services in order to manage their everyday situations. However, social services are shaped by the construction of policy targets. The aim of this dissertation is to explore the social citizenship for people with dementia. Social citizenship for people with dementia is explored by studying how people with dementia, in policy documents, have been constructed as a target group and also by studying how policies are enacted in practice by care managers, in their work and in their meetings with people with dementia. This is illustrated by studying policy documents from national level which range over nearly 40 years and 19 interviews with care managers. It is shown that, if and when, people with dementia are visible in policy documents, they commonly have a negative construction based on their cognitive and communicative abilities, as a burden, disturbing and incapable. It is further investigated how street-level bureaucrats, in this case care managers, experience meeting with people with dementia when they apply for social services. It is shown that care-managers experience difficulties concerning this group comprised of the exchange of information between care managers and people with dementia, refusal of social services by the person, the influence of relatives and other professions as well as moral dilemmas, such as the relations between the person with dementia and their relatives. The study shows that care managers have little support from policies, e.g. legislation and guidelines, in how to handle these dilemmas, and must thus create their own local ways of handling these situations. Care managers are thus influential policy actors concerning the policy target group of people with dementia. The policy processes which this dissertation illustrates, affect the social citizenship of people with dementia. It is shown that they, to an extent, have difficulties in influencing their own everyday situation concerning social services. Finally, the policy processes, will affect their possibility to influence their social citizenship.
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- Machat-From, Laura, 1982-
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Identity, Old(er) Age and Migrancy : A Social Constructionist Lens
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- ldentity research in relation to ethnicity and migration has tended to focus an younger people whilst identity research in relation to ageing and old(er) age has not focused an migrants. This inadvertent mutual neglect has led to a lack of identity research that examines the identity categories of old(er) age and migrancy together, a lacuna that this dissertation aims to redress. This dissertation departs from a social constructionist understanding of identity as situationally accomplished in the interplay between how one defines oneself (internally) and how others define one (externally). The questions raised by this perspective and addressed in this dissertation are: When (in what situations) and in relation to whom do old(er) age and migrancy (respectively) seem to become meaningful for identification? How do the identity categories of old(er) age and migrancy seem to be negotiated? The empirical material consists of in-depth interviews with 24 older migrants (13 men, 11 women) aged between 55 and 79 who have been living in Sweden for 18 to 61 years. Interviewees come from 12 different countries that vary in perceived cultural distance from Sweden. The findings suggest that identifications with old(er) age and migrancy seem to be dynamic and flexible rather than necessarily permanently meaningful, thus gaining meaning in specific situations and in relation to particular Others. External definitions furthermore do not always seem to match with internal ones. Regardless of how old(er) age and migrancy are constructed, they seem to be negotiable. This dissertation thus contributes to identity research by studying old(er) age and migrancy together and furthermore sheds light onto how the social constructionist lens allows us to see variability where stability otherwise would be presumed.
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- Aronsson, Karin, et al.
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Generational positions at family dinner : Food morality and social order
- 2011
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Ingår i: Language in society (London. Print). - : Cambridge University Press. - 0047-4045 .- 1469-8013. ; 40:4, s. 405-426
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article concerns generation and food morality, drawing on video recordings of dinners in Swedish middle-class families. A detailed analysis of affect displays during one family dinner extends prior work on food morality (Ochs, Pontecorvo, & Fasulo 1996; Grieshaber 1997; Bourdieu 2003; Wiggins 2004), documenting ways in which participants may shift between distinct GENERATIONAL POSITIONS with respect to affects and food morality (from “irresponsiblechild” to caretaker positions). In our recordings, an elder sibling is shifting between a series of contrasting affective stances (Ochs & Schieffelin 1989; M. Goodwin 2006; Stivers 2008), linked to generational positions along an implicit age continuum: positioning himself, at one end of the continuum, as his young brother’s accomplice, and at the other as an adult, aserious guardian of food morality. This study shows that generational positionsare not fixed, but are positions adopted as parts of language socializationand interactional events.
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- Mac Innes, Hanna, 1980, et al.
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Social Exclusion
- 2023
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Ingår i: Handbook on Migration and Ageing. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781839106767 ; , s. 87-98
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This comprehensive Handbook explores the fundamental concepts surrounding the ageing-migration nexus. It is indispensable reading, presenting interdisciplinary research to investigate the unique experiences of older migrants, migrant eldercare workers and older people left behind.
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- Vesterberg, Viktor
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Ethnicizing Employability : Governing the Unemployed in Labour Market Projects in Sweden
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The dissertation analyzes labour market projects co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) targeting unemployed migrants and ethnicized groups. The analysis is qualitative, discourse-oriented and based on Foucault’s concept of governmentality. More specifically, it is highlighted how the target groups are ethnicized through discourses of employability and learning. The thesis consists of four articles. In the first three articles, focus is mainly on how the projects present themselves through their project descriptions in the ESF project bank and the fourth article is mainly based on ethnographic material. Overall, this dissertation highlights different aspects of inclusion work directed towards migrants and ethnicized target groups that can be seen as problematic and sometimes contradictory. Tendencies to individualize unemployment and thus positioning the unemployed project participants as responsible for their situation is interrogated in the thesis. Further, it is analyzed how culture and ethnicity is used in ways that are likely to strengthen the target groups ‘Otherness’ in relation to a ‘Swedishness’ that often become synonymous with what is perceived as normal and thus widening the gap between ‘us’ and ‘them’ when the stated goal is the opposite. This dissertation can serve as a starting point to reflect on how inclusion efforts and labour market projects seeking to produce social inclusion and employability may be at risk to categorize people in different ways, which can sometimes be problematic in relation to what the efforts seek to achieve.
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- Waltman, Max
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Prohibiting Sex Purchasing and Ending Trafficking : The Swedish Prostitution Law
- 2011
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Ingår i: Michigan Journal of International Law. - 1052-2867. ; 33:1, s. 133-157
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish prostitution law from 1999, now followed by Norway and Iceland, criminalized the purchaser and decriminalized the prostituted person. This is analyzed as a cogent state response under international trafficking law, particularly to the obligations set forth in the United Nation’s Trafficking Protocol from 2000. The Protocol states that a person is regarded a trafficking victim when, e.g., someone abuses her “position of vulnerability” in order to exploit her. International jurisprudence and social evidence strongly suggest that prostitution, as practiced in the world, usually satisfies this definition. Further, the Protocol urges states to reduce the demand for prostitution and to protect and assist victims, for instance by adopting laws deterring purchasers of sex, and by supporting those exploited in prostitution. Policy makers, such as the U.S. Department of State, are criticized for taking an inadequate position in face of the growing evidence from the Swedish law's impact.The article shows that Sweden has significantly reduced the occurrence of trafficking in Sweden compared to neighboring countries. It also scrutinizes some misinformation of the law's impact, showing for instance that claims alleging a more dangerous situation for those still in prostitution after 1999 were unfounded. In addition, the article addresses remaining obstacles to the law's effective implementation, arguing that in order to realize the law's full potential to support escape from trafficking, the civil rights of prostituted persons under current law should be strengthened to enable them to claim damages directly from the purchasers for the harm to which they have contributed, and for the violation of the prostituted persons' equality and dignity - a position now recognized by the government to some extent by clarifying amendments made in 2011.
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- Dymitrow, Mirek, et al.
(författare)
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Integration and green business development in a trust-building context
- 2018
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Ingår i: Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference “Comparative Co-Production”, SunSquare Conference Centre, 5–7 November 2018, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The success of social science research and collaboration projects which seek to gain involvement from a particular group of participants are highly reliant upon the quality of social relationships between all stakeholders and actors involved. This means that the quality of these relationships is reliant upon trust and obligations that are inherent within. Trust is a multifaceted process of sensemaking which is developed over time and is created and reproduced though social interactions at both an interpersonal and institutional level. It is argued that the most significant relationship within a project that seeks the engagement of immigrant communities is that between the project team and the gatekeeper. However, empirical examples show that projects focusing on specific kinds of development (like green development) may overshadow the project’s social context in terms of who it is really for. Moreover, such projects may also inadvertently cater to actors already established on the local market (rather than focusing on the neediest) or even breed stereotypes about immigrants (such as that “all” immigrants are farmers, and hence green development is suitable for them). Unsurprisingly, unreflective approaches to themed integration projects are likely to raise suspicion and, probably undeservingly, spawn negative media attention. This presentation focuses on the backside of implementing a themed integration process in a setting marred by low levels of trust in municipal authorities, past difficulties of implementation and general reluctance of key actors. By making use of reflexive autoethnographic methodology, this presentation opens up to both the possibilities and challenges of an integration project aiming to create new jobs within green development. It also includes a number of recommendations for successful implementation.
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- Knezevic, Zlatana, 1984-
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Speaking Bodies – Silenced Voices : Child Protection and the Knowledge Culture of ‘Evidencing’
- 2021
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Ingår i: Global Studies of Childhood. - : Sage Publications. - 2043-6106. ; 11:3, s. 252-264
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using the metaphors body and voice and drawing on critical contributions on biopolitics, this article interrogates children’s participation rights in a knowledge culture of ‘evidencing’. With child welfare and protection practice as an empirical example, I analyse written assessment reports from a Swedish child welfare agency, all exemplifying how social workers evidence needs for protection and reasons for removing children from the home. I discuss how ‘evidencing’ equals a knowledge culture of seeing-believing and predicting-believing and the search for visibly damaged bodies and underdeveloped minds. I furthermore problematise how such conceptualisation of evidencing foregrounds children’s ‘speaking’ bodies while silencing their voices. By showing these manifestations of evidencing, this critical contribution discusses some wider epistemic concerns for fields influenced by the knowledge cultures of ‘the evidence-based’.
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- Scaramuzzino, Roberto, et al.
(författare)
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Mapping civil society elites: multi‑dimensional measure of resource stratifcation in civil society (MMRSC)
- 2024
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Ingår i: Interest Groups & Advocacy. - 2047-7414 .- 2047-7422.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a novel methodological approach, multi-dimensional measure of resource stratifcation in civil society (MMRSC). The method aims at mapping civil society organisations based on diferent types of resources for studying resource stratifcation in civil society. The approach is based on six indicators consisting of economic, political, and media resources, internal and external to civil society. The MMRSC is a development and adaptation of the positional method within the elite research tradition aiming at identifying individuals holding central positions in powerful organisations. To be able to apply the positional method to civil society studies, the paper argues for a multi dimensional understanding of resources taking into account diverse organisational forms and goals within civil society. The method is presented in a systematic step-by-step structure with exemplifcations based on how it has been used in a study of civil society elites in four European countries and at the EU level.
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- Ottosson, Lisa, et al.
(författare)
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People ’out of place’? Advocates’ Negotiations on Children’s Participation in the Asylum Application Process in Sweden
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. - : Oxford University Press. - 1360-9939 .- 1464-3707. ; 27:2, s. 266-287
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article concerns legal representatives’ negotiations around the principle of children’s best interests and children’s right to participation according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in cases of families applying for asylum in Sweden. Using material from nine interviews with children’s advocates, we analyse their strategies for obtaining narratives from children without putting them in a vulnerable position and examine the tension between migration control and children’s interests. The study shows that children are often assumed to be adequately represented by their parents and that they are perceived as ‘people out of place’ in the asylum process. The right to a customised asylum process, in which children’s needs and perspectives are taken into consideration, tends to be overlooked. Also, the principle of children’s best interests is overshadowed by an ambition to prepare the parents’ claims for asylum in a credible and strategic manner or it may be used as a last resort when all other efforts to get an application granted have been exhausted. In addition, although representatives occasionally develop successful ways of bringing child-specific persecution to the attention of the migration authorities, bureaucratic, and economic barriers constitute a limitation. This ultimately results in the child’s right to seek asylum being overshadowed by the state’s highly technical migration control.
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- Adolfsson, Margareta, 1950-, et al.
(författare)
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Identifying child functioning from an ICF-CY perspective : everyday life situations explored in measures of participation
- 2011
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Ingår i: Disability and Rehabilitation. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0963-8288 .- 1464-5165. ; 33:13-14, s. 1230-1244
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose. This study was part of a larger work to develop an authentic measure consisting of code sets for self- or proxy-report of child participation. The aim was to identify common everyday life situations of children and youth based on measures of participation. Method. The study was descriptive in nature and involved several stages: systematic search of literature to find articles presenting measures for children and youth with disabilities, identifying measures in selected articles, linking items in included measures to the ICF-CY, analysing content in measures presented as performance and participation and identifying aggregations of ICF-CY codes across these measures. Results. A large number of measures for children and youth with disabilities were identified but only 12 fulfilled the inclusion criteria. A slight distinction in content and age appropriateness appeared. Measures presented as performance covered all the ICF-CY Activities and Participation chapters, whereas measures presented as participation covered five of nine chapters. Three common everyday life situations emerged from the measures: Moving around, Engagement in play and Recreation and leisure. Conclusion. Only a small number of life situations for children and youth emerged from items in selected measures, thus, other sources are needed to identify more everyday life situations.
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- Bahner, Julia, et al.
(författare)
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Alison Kafer: Med blicken på funktionsmaktordningen
- 2022
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Ingår i: Teorier för socialt arbete : Del 2, Normalitet, förkroppsligad erfarenhet och motstånd - Del 2, Normalitet, förkroppsligad erfarenhet och motstånd. - 9789151107639 ; , s. 143-157
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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Barnfattigdom
- 2013. - 1
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Evans, Kiah L., et al.
(författare)
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Working Sandwich Generation Women Utilize Strategies within and between Roles to Achieve Role Balance
- 2016
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Ingår i: PLOS ONE. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203. ; 11:6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Increasingly, women simultaneously balance the roles of mother, parental carer and worker. However, individual role balance strategies among these working ‘sandwich’ generation women have not been thoroughly explored. Eighteen women combining these three roles were interviewed about their individual role balance strategies. Findings were identified through the framework analysis technique, underpinned by the Model of Juggling Occupations. Achieving and maintaining role balance was explained as a complex process accomplished through a range of strategies. Findings revealed the women used six within-role balance strategies: living with integrity, being the best you can, doing what you love, loving what you do, remembering why and searching for signs of success. The women also described six between-role balance strategies: maintaining health and wellbeing, repressing perfectionism, managing time and energy, releasing responsibility, nurturing social connection and reciprocating. These findings provide a basis for health care providers to understand and potentially support working ‘sandwich’ generation women.
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- Knezevic, Zlatana, 1984-
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Bortom biovälfärden : Intersektionella orättvisor i barndomar och den sociala barnavården
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Presentationen utgår från den delen av min doktorsavhandling och senare vidareutvecklingar som kretsar kring den sociala barnavårdens praktik; mer specifikt barnavårdsutredningar (barn upp till 12 år) och eventuella rekommenderade åtgärder som respons på intersektionella orättvisor i barndomar. Jag belyser förändringsbehov och möjligheter till ett socialt arbete där rättighets- och rättviseperspektiv hamnar i förgrunden - bortom biovälfärdens dilemman.Ett av biovälfärdens dilemman är att säkerställa att barndomar är fria från våld samtidigt som våldets och orättvisornas symptom är i blickpunkten, inte problemet och orättvisorna i sig. Fokus på långtgående risker och psykosomatiska konsekvenser synliggör inte bara vissa våldssituationer och våldsformer framför andra. Det förstärker även professionellas och forskningens betydelse i utredningar. Dock medför detta också en objektifiering av barnkroppar varför barns delaktighet som rättighetsbärande subjekt med röst blir svårt att leva upp till. Vidare diskuteras avsaknaden av respons på orättvisor i form av rasism och våld utanför hemmet samt åtgärdernas begränsningar i relation till skydd. En slutsats som dras är att skydd på inget enkelt sätt kan likställas med insatser annat än när det rör sig om tvångsåtgärder. Möjligheterna är många till en bättre hantering av problem genom förändrade lösningar. Jag diskuterar behovet av att utforma nya insatser som är frivilliga och skyddande samt vikten av att stärka unga människors delaktighet såväl i insatsutformningen som vid rekommendation av insatser. Det räcker dock inte att enbart identifiera nya insatsbehov så länge insatser förutsätter vuxnas samtycke. Förändringsbehov avseende dessa villkor behöver därför ses över.
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- Lingärde, Svante, 1969-, et al.
(författare)
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En skälig levnadsnivå för barn
- 2013. - 1
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Ingår i: Barnfattigdom. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144079837 ; , s. 119-140
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Nordh, Jonas, et al.
(författare)
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To Coordinate Information in Practice : Dilemmas and Strategies in Care Management for Citizens with Dementia
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of social service research. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0148-8376 .- 1540-7314. ; 43:3, s. 319-335
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This qualitative study, based on 19 interviews with care managers, explores the experiences of care-managers involved in assessing the need for social services for people with dementia. The study shows that social workers, as care managers, face several dilemmas in their practice concerning people with dementia, in relation to the exchange of information and in regards to conflicting interests between different actors involved in the assessment of the need for support for people with dementia. Strategies used to handle problematic situations that arise in their work are using other sources for information (e.g., relatives and actors from other professions), persuading, and pursuing creative forms of consent. However, the study shows that dilemmas and strategies used generate other, prominently moral, dilemmas for care managers in their practice, which relate to participation and self-determination by the person with dementia. The study shed light on the problematic situation for care managers in their work to coordinate information and further the new “realities“ that they encounter as well as on how to handle these new situations. This study suggests possible ways to improve the everyday work of care managers, as well as how policies concerning social work and people with dementia can be improved.
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- Rauhut, Daniel, 1968-
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Barnfattigdom
- 2011
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Ingår i: Barnbladet. ; :6, s. 6-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Rauhut, Daniel, 1968-
(författare)
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Barnfattigdom - en introduktion
- 2013. - 1
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Ingår i: Barnfattigdom. - Lund. - 9789144079837 ; , s. 13-34
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Rauhut, Daniel, 1968-
(författare)
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Barnfattigdomens orsaker
- 2013. - 1
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Ingår i: Barnfattigdom. - Lund. - 9789144079837 ; , s. 51-73
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- Rauhut, Daniel, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Child Poverty in a Regional Perspective: A Study of Sweden 1990 and 2010
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- When welfare is analysed in Sweden the analysis is usually made at the national level; when the analysis is not done on the national level, the local level is in focus to illuminate differences between municipalities. Studies on poverty are no exception. The regional level contains a lot of information which is needed to understand the dynamics of poverty. Without this information it is difficult to fight or mitigate poverty. The previous research focusing on i) regional aspects of poverty and, at the same time, ii) child poverty is very limited. The aim of this paper is to analyse child poverty in Sweden 1990 and 2010 in a regional perspective. A multivariate cross-section OLS regression model will be used to estimate what factors causing child poverty in a regional perspective. The chosen method enables to control for a subset of explanatory variables and examine the effect of a selected independent variable when estimating the factors causing child poverty in a regional perspective. This study uses data collected from Statistics Sweden (SCB), the National Board of Social Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) and the National Labour Market Board (Arbetsformedlingen). The data used is regional macro data, which does not contain information on single individuals. The regional share of children living on economic assistance in Sweden is used as the dependent variable while the regional share of foreign born population, regional unemployment rate, the regional share of single parents, regional sickness leave, regional mean personal income and mean regional transfers per person are used as independent variables. The findings indicate that old industrial regions experience a high presence of child poverty. These regions experience an obsolete economic structure and an obstructed structural change in the economy. High unemployment, a high share of early retirement and sickness leave and relatively high welfare transfers to the population. The statistical analysis show that when the share of foreign born increases in the regional population, so do the regional share of children living on economic assistance; being unable to enter the labour market is the most probable reason. Higher incomes lower the regional share of children living on economic assistance.
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- Taubner, Helena, 1977-, et al.
(författare)
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Signs of aphasia : Online identity and stigma management in post-stroke aphasia
- 2017
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Ingår i: Cyberpsychology. - Brno : Masarykova Univerzita. - 1802-7962. ; 11:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study aimed to investigate online strategies for re-negotiating identity, in terms of stigma management, developed by working-age Swedish Internet users with post-stroke aphasia, i.e., acquired language impairment caused by brain injury. Interviews were conducted with nine individuals (aged 26-61, three men and six women) with post-stroke aphasia. In addition, a total of 1,581 screenshots of online posts (e.g., photos, videos, text, emoticons) created by the same participants were collected. Drawing on social semiotics (specifically the three dimensions of online communication mentioned by Kress (2003), i.e., composition, content and context) and Goffman’s theory of stigma (1963, specifically the concepts of stigma management and passing), qualitative thematic analysis was performed. Regarding composition, three themes emerged: Relying on others or technology, Beyond speaking and writing, and Controlling speed and timing. The participants rarely posted content about aphasia, but some of them used the Internet to raise awareness. Different online contexts had different meaning to the participants in terms of identity. Being open about the aphasia in one forum did not imply the same behaviour in another forum (e.g., dating sites). For the participants to pass (Goffman, 1963), should they want to, they needed to control all three dimensions. If the context or the composition revealed the stigma, controlling the content was not enough to pass. The multimodality of the Internet enabled the participants to manage their stigma in a variety of ways and to choose whether to be perceived as persons with aphasia or not.
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- Julia, Simonson, et al.
(författare)
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Ungleichheit sozialer Teilhabe im Alter
- 2013
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Ingår i: Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie (Print). - : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 0948-6704 .- 1435-1269. ; 46:5, s. 410-416
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Unter dem Leitbild des aktiven Alters wird die Aufrechterhaltung umfassender sozialer Teilhabe über die Lebensphase Alter diskutiert. „Gutes“ Altern im Sinne dieses Aktivitätsparadigmas wandelt sich vom Ergebnis sozialer Ungleichheit zunehmend zu einem ihrer Ausgangspunkte. Auf Basis des Deutschen Alterssurveys (DEAS) 2008 und 2011 wird die Teilhabe über Ehrenamt und Bildungsaktivitäten unter Berücksichtigung sozialstruktureller und sozialräumlicher Aspekte sozialer Ungleichheit in den Blick genommen. Die soziale Teilhabe erweist sich als sozialstrukturell und sozialräumlich ungleich verteilt. Personen aus unteren sozialen Schichten gehen deutlich seltener einer Bildungsaktivität nach oder engagieren sich ehrenamtlich. Zudem ist die soziale Teilhabe bei Personen in wirtschaftlich schwachen Regionen deutlich geringer als bei Personen in wirtschaftlich starken. Nachteilige Effekte kumulieren sich, wenn in einer Region begrenzte individuelle Ressourcen und schlechte ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen vorliegen. Maßnahmen zur Förderung sozialer Teilhabe sollten darauf abzielen, auf lokaler Ebene Gelegenheiten für Engagement und Bildungsaktivität zu schaffen, um die Teilhabechancen von Personen aus unteren sozialen Schichten nachhaltig zu verbessern.
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- Björktomta, Siv-Britt, 1962
(författare)
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Saraprojektet 2004-2007
- 2008
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sararapporten dokumenterar ett treårigt metod-och kompetensutvecklingsprojekt som pågick i Huddinge kommun mellan 2004-2007. Syftet var att ta fram ett kunskapsunderlag för hur kommunen ska kunna arbete för att förebygga så kallat hedersrelaterat förtryck och våld. Rapporten innehåller också intervjuer med flickor som lever med begränsningar och kontroll av sitt sociala liv och sin sexualitet. Erfarenheterna från de tre projektåren visar att en enskild utbildningssatsning inte är tillräcklig för att täcka behovet av kunskap om detta förtryck och våld. Den samlade erfarenheten visar att en grundläggande kunskap behövs inom samtliga delar av kommunens verksamhet.
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- Elgenius, Gabriella
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Civilsamhällets bidrag till integration i bostadsområden med socioekonomiska utmaningar.
- 2023
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna policy brief sammanfattar slutsatser från det pågående projektet ”Rethinking Integration: en komparativ studie om civilsamhället i bostadsområden med socioekonomiska utmaningar som karaktäriseras av mångfald” och syftar till att analysera på vilka sätt civilsamhället bidrar till integration. Resultaten visar att civilsamhället bidrar betydligt till integration genom mångsidiga och behovsanpassade aktiviteter, vilket pekar på vikten av att uppmärksamma formella såväl som informella initiativ. Projektet finansieras av Vetenskapsrådet och leds av Gabriella Elgenius, professor vid Göteborgs universitet, i samarbete med Juta Kawalerowicz, forskare vid Stockholms universitet, och Jenny Phillimore, professor vid Birminghams universitet.
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- Lenninger, Sara M.
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Narratives and the semiotic freedom of children
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sign System Studies. - 1406-4243 .- 1736-7409. ; 49:1, s. 216-234
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Both adults’ habits-of-thought and their understanding of children’s stories shape how adults interpret children’s participation in conversations. In the light of the requests on children’s rights that follow from the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) this paper stresses the relevance of authorities having semiotically informed knowledge on children’s meaning-making within conversations with adults. In Article 12, the CRC stipulates the right of children to participate in and to be heard about decisions that affect their everyday lives. According to the same Article, however, these rights can be restrained, based on the authority’s judgements of the child’s age and maturity. Sociological studies have highlighted the importance of adopting the child’s perspective in judging matters that concern her. The present paper further suggests that narrow conceptualization of the sign can help one to observe different levels of meaning in adults’ and children’s conversations better. Although Paul Ricoeur did not investigate children’s narratives per se, his theory of narratives and narrativity offers a phenomenological approach to development that allows for better theoretical discriminations of narrative as a semiotic resource, and can thus assist adults in truly listening to children.
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- Esholdt, Henriette Frees, et al.
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Moral Policing of Gender Norms: Honor-Based Violence as a Mobilizing Factor Towards Militant Islamism
- 2024
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Ingår i: Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. - 1057-610X .- 1521-0731.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Honor culture, in which the virtue of the family—if not community—depends on the “purity” of its female members, enforced through “moral policing” of gender norms to collectively control women’s sexuality and uphold a patriarchal gender order, is a central aspect of both honor-based violence and the Salafi-jihadist culture in militant Islamist milieus. Drawing on interviews with 1) an imprisoned Danish woman convicted of ISIS-related terrorism, 2) a mother of a deceased Swedish ISIS foreign fighter, who herself was previously part of the Salafi-jihadist milieu, and 3) “professionals” (e.g. police officers, social workers and municipal employees) conducted during ethnographic fieldwork in Sweden and prison ethnography in Denmark, this article explores how honor-based violence can constitute a mobilizing factor for Western Muslims towards militant Islamism in three distinct ways. First, isolation of Muslim women and children through gender segregation and restrictions on accessing public space to “moral police” gender norms enables the Salafi-jihadist milieu to cement and extend its ideological, religious, and physical control. Second, in an honor culture with intense pressure on men to defend and restore family honor whenever it is challenged, joining ISIS can be perceived as a means to fulfill this obligation, thereby affirming “real” Muslim masculinity and upholding a patriarchal gender order. The deeply ingrained cultural expectations to defend honor can even be exploited by militant Islamist milieus in their recruitment efforts. Third, besides providing a “safe space” where one cannot be persecuted and punished for dishonoring one’s family by leaving it as an unmarried woman, ISIS’s multiethnic diversity and embrace of interethnic marriage can be appealing for someone who wants to escape forced endogamous marriage. Given that honor-based violence strikes at the individual freedoms and rights, thereby undermining liberal democratic values and the rule of law, our article contributes knowledge on the broader threat to democracy from anti-democratic forces in the context of militant Islamism.
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