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Introduction
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In: Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe. - 9781526146830 - 9781526146823
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Refugees have moved into the spotlight of public debate in Europe and North America, where they are targeted by multiple welfare state interventions. This volume analyses the tensions that emerge within the strong welfare states of Northern Europe when faced with an increased immigration of protection-seeking people. Examining the encounter between refugees and the welfare states, this book explores the daily strategies and experiences of newly settled groups and the role of media discourses and welfare policies in shaping those experiences.Building on both textual analyses and ethnographic fieldwork in welfare institutions, asylum centres, and refugee communities, this volume provides an in-depth understanding of the complex realities faced by refugees: deterrence and categorisation, struggle and success, mobility and stagnation. As social phenomena, Northern Europe's asylum systems and integration programmes must be understood in the context of the bureaucratisation of everyday life.
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- Adman, Per, et al.
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171 forskare: ”Vi vuxna bör också klimatprotestera”
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In: Dagens nyheter (DN debatt). - Stockholm. - 1101-2447.
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- DN DEBATT 26/9. Vuxna bör följa uppmaningen från ungdomarna i Fridays for future-rörelsen och protestera eftersom det politiska ledarskapet är otillräckligt. Omfattande och långvariga påtryckningar från hela samhället behövs för att få de politiskt ansvariga att utöva det ledarskap som klimatkrisen kräver, skriver 171 forskare i samhällsvetenskap och humaniora.
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- Gren, Nina, 1972
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Anticipating Palestinian Return
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In: 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Montréal, Canada, 16-20 November 2011.
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- Gren, Nina
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Creativity within urban gardening at times of emergency
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Creativity often erupts as individuals reshape tradition in the light of changing historical circumstances. This presentation focuses on creativity within urban gardening projects as an answer to worries about ecological crisis. It builds on ethnographic research during 2017-2018 among urban gardeners in the Malmö-Lund area, Sweden. The interlocutors, especially project coordinators, expressed a sense of ecological emergency. They worried about the future and aimed to re-direct urban life to more sustainable ways of living. As is often the case, children connoted the future for urban gardeners and all the projects had some activities that targeted children. In creative ways, urban gardeners developed events and workshops for children that for instance involved storytelling, sowing and planting, harvesting and cooking in addition to making ‘bee hotels’ and herbal salt. Within anthropology, creative processes are sometimes compared to ritual processes; they hold similar transformative potentials (Turner 1986). In the case of urban gardening, the transformative potential will be discussed in relation to ‘a capacity to aspire’ for a different future (Appadurai 2013). Through experience-near and embodied practices, children were taught about ecological issues, which by extension would help them to both imagine and be the change. Turner, Victor 1986, The Anthropology of Performance, PAJ Publications paperback.Appadurai, Arjun 2013, The Future as Cultural Fact, Essays on the Global Condition, Verso Books.
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Each Day Another Disaster : Politics and Everyday Life in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This anthropological study examines the ways in which Palestinian camp refugees maintain everyday life in a situation that is characterized by chronic disruption, fear and mistrust. It explores how these refugees make sense of displacement and violence and how they uphold a sense of agency in constraining circumstances. One year of ethnographic fieldwork was carried out in a West Bank refugee camp during the intifada al-aqsa and this yielded unique data consisting of interviews and field-notes from participant observation. The thesis shows how these people deal with repeated emergencies and it elucidates their struggle to recreate ‘normal order’ and continuity. The maintenance of daily routine, tactics of resilience, community, memory and morality are significant building blocks in this process. The data show the creative and often ambivalent means that people use to establish feelings of hope and trust in spite of difficult conditions. For the camp inhabitants, several dilemmas arise out of the tension between personal life goals and collective political aims. One such dilemma concerned return to the refugees’ villages of origin. More than 60 years after their flight, return continues to be a political and existential theme. However, many refugees are now attempting to establish new homes outside the camp in their pursuit of a more permanent life. Another major dilemma concerns the proper way to resist Israel during a militarised uprising; ‘ordinary’ people try, by practicing ‘steadfastness’, to reconcile a desire to remain political subjects with a wish to avoid becoming militia or martyrs. The refugees’ focal endeavour is to salvage integrity as they experience that both their physical and national existence are under threat.
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Educating Gaza's Children -A Remedy to the Crisis
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In: EASA conference 24-27 August 2010 Maynooth, Ireland.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Gaza has experienced international interventions for about 60 years. Most people are for instance educated in UN-run schools. Internationally as well as locally, Gaza is continuously imagined as a society in deep crisis. The remedy of that crisis is however imagined differently by diverse actors. To most Gazans, Israeli and international policies should be altered, most importantly by eliminating the boycott of the Strip. To the international community, part of a solution seems to be that Palestinian youth change. It discusses the imagined boundaries between Palestinians and 'other people' that became apparent in a program directed to Gaza's pupils; the introduction of a subject of human rights. The paper analyzes the local responses of teachers and parents in relations to UN policies.
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- Gren, Nina
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Gendering Al-Nakba : Elderly Palestinian Refugees' Stories and Silences about Dying Children
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In: St Antony's International Review. - 1746-451X. ; 10:1, s. 110-126
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article builds on the life-stories of elderly Palestinian refugees, collected in the West Bank in 2003-2004. It discusses accounts about flight in 1948 (i.e. al-Nakba) and pays particular interest to stories as well as silences about dying children. The article argues that men and women remembered their flight differently and that the gendered experiences of flight influenced understandings of both the past and the present as well as ideals of motherhood and fatherhood. Both the elderly men's and women's stories contained self-blame and humiliation, but also attempts to counter accusations from other Palestinians. Claims that the refugees did not face any violence or that women forgot their children, as well as the way the elderly explained such charges, point at the struggle to create a coherent narrative of self and the past in situations of continuous uncertainty. Women were more successful in trying to save face than men, since in their stories they kept to their children no matter what. According to these women, the threat towards Palestinian children did not only come from Israel, but also from Palestinian men who asked mothers to abandon their child. The elderly men were not very outspoken in their stories, which remain more ambiguous than women's accounts. Some elements in stories about flight tell us more about the present than about the past. The stories and silences about dying children mirror concerns about how to be a good parent at the time of fieldwork and about recent cases of infants dying at checkpoints.
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- Gren, Nina
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Hemsökelser från Gaza
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In: Antroperspektiv.
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- Gren, Nina, 1972
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Imagined return: Notions of home and belonging among Palestinian camp refugees on the West Bank : [Projektbeskrivning]
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to explore notions and practices of home and return among Palestinian camp refugees on the West Bank. These refugees, who make up a third of the West Bank population, are among the millions of Palestinians that were displaced from their villages at the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 (Al Nakba, "the Disaster"). This means they have lived as refugees in camps for over four generations. The villages from which they originally fled are today situated on Israeli territory, many of them only kilometres away from the camps. Over the years, the longing to return to the home village and the way of life it represented has remained a vivid feature in the social life of the camp residents. For example, marriage preferences, residence patterns, the naming of places in the camp are all symbolic re-creations of village life. Another way of remembering is the practice of the older generations to tell stories of the home village and life in the past to the younger ones. In the long-standing conflict with Israel over territory, such active remembering, passed on through the generations, is also at the heart of the Palestinian political struggle. This is also the main focus of this study, taking its points of departure in anthropological understandings of place (nation/home/house) and social memory and exploring these in relation to political conflict and exile.
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