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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
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Picturing inclusive places in segregated spaces : a participatory photo project conducted by migrant women in Sweden
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Ingår i: Gender, Place and Culture. - : Routledge. - 0966-369X .- 1360-0524. ; 19:5, s. 600-614
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article uses participatory photography to explore contradictory processes of inclusion and exclusion in contemporary Sweden. Our aim is to analyse the social relations that shape the kinds of places recently arrived migrant women experience as ‘safe’, as well as their everyday experiences of inclusion and exclusion. The use of photography – wherein the women choose how, when and where to shoot photos – helps us highlight what otherwise would not be immediately evident with regard to the experience of such places. We argue that there are inclusive places in segregated spaces, and that issues of ethnic inclusion and exclusion are linked to ethnic hegemony and other relationships of power. Drawing on theories of relational space in general, and transgressive space in particular, we demonstrate that our informants' daily existence is simultaneously integrated and segregated, included and excluded, and that emancipatory processes that are already under way must be allowed to proceed if the social landscape of integration is to be an open and equal one.
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- Schmauch, Ulrika, et al.
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The hidden boundaries of everyday places : Migrant women, Homeplace and the spatial practices of a small Swedish town
- 2014
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Ingår i: ACME. - : University of British Columbia, Okanagan. - 1492-9732. ; 13:2, s. 372-393
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents a project that focuses on the multiple ways recently arrived migrant women position themselves, and are positioned, in relation to an urban community in a medium-sized town in central Sweden. The research draws on theories of place and social relationships in order to analyse how accessibility of place is structured and explores the tensions in the production of places. Special attention is paid to variations in narratives collected from participants about living in the town and to how the narratives influence the migrants' experiences of everyday places. The results shed light on the importance of social boundaries and of weak hegemonic relationships in generating a sense of homeplace, the ways our informants construct places in their everyday lives, and actions - or inactions - that result from ways that everyday places are constructed.
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- Schmauch, Ulrika
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Working hard to integrate - the role of gender in integration discourse
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Ingår i: Normalization and "outsiderhood". - : Bentham eBooks. - 9781608052790 ; , s. 49-57
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The growing focus on individual responsibility in the neo-liberal welfare state has made issues of employability a focus of policy debates. In this chapter the consequences of this discourse in relation to ethnic minorities in Sweden is studied from an intersectional perspective. The widespread discourse on the responsibility of migrants to become normal - to integrate themselves into Swedish society by becoming employable, fluent in the Swedish language and observant of Swedish cultural norms - is discussed. It is argued here that since minorities are often considered to represent their whole ethnic group, individual responsibility to become integrated is transformed into a responsibility to integrate one's whole group. It is concluded that the paradoxes of multiculturalism are discursively resolved by awarding responsibility for integration to individual immigrants and in that way making a group with relatively little power responsible for their own subordination.
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