Blandningspolitik och strategier för social blandning: En litteraturöversikt

Social integration through social connection in everyday life. Residents' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in SällBo collaborative housing, Sweden

“…Research has shown that the neighborhood where individuals live can affect their opportunities in life positively or negatively. Segregation means separation, and it includes demographic, socioeconomic and/or ethnical segregation (Lindemann and Roelofs, 2020). Recent studies have concluded that residential segregation of foreign-born has increased in Sweden over time (Malmberg et al, 2016).…”

Concealed Stigmatization: Resident Experiences and Practices in Area-Based Development in Gårdsten

“…Moreover, social mix policy is often concerned about strengthening social networks and social cohesion and creating more stability in low-income areas through an influx of middle-class residents (Bolt & Van Kempen, 2011;Joseph, 2006;Sarkissian, 1976;Uitermark, 2003;Uitermark et al, 2007). Even though the aim of social mix policy regarding the strengthening of social networks has been criticized (Lindemann & Roelofs, 2020), the ubiquitous political and scholarly attention to the subject suggest an ongoing concern about social networks in marginalized areas (Grander & Sjöland Kozlovic, forthcoming). Resident participation, although often vaguely defined, is often a core goal of area-based initiatives and can be linked to this ongoing concern about inadequate social networks and bad legitimacy of area-based initiatives in targeted areas (Blokland, 2008;Boverket, 2010;Lahti Edmark, 2005;Mathers et al, 2008).…”

“…Media and political representations and representations from the police state that marginalized areas are not good for young people, since youngsters in these areas are at risk of being recruited into criminal organizations (Antoniadis, 2023;Brå, 2023;Regeringen, 2022;Schwartz Wiman & Milchner Funseth, 2023). Moreover, established representations on marginalized areas, produced outside of Gårdsten, state that children in marginalized areas lack sufficient (middle-class) role models (Lindemann & Roelofs, 2020). Hodan and Malin appear to be motivated to engage for the good of Gårdsten's youngsters through a combination of the external representations about the neighbourhood that suggest a criminal future for young people growing up in marginalized areas and a lack of 'good' role models for children, while also being motivated to engage by the criminal activity that they themselves have observed in the neighbourhood.…”

“…Hodan and Malin's resident group seems to defy the stigmatizing ideas produced by territorial stigmatization. Malin, Hodan and other women in their group do offer strong role models and are engaged adults, even though stigmatizing representations claim that these role models are limited (Lindemann & Roelofs, 2020). The women's concern and engagement for Gårdsten's youth also show that they do not believe that the stigmatizing ideas about youngsters' futures, inevitably ending in criminal networks, need to be true.…”

“…Vision 2025 (Gårdstensbostäder & Göteborg stad, n.d.) describes the construction of new housing and expanded services as necessary to meet the needs of Gårdsten. Because new forms of tenure and more expensive rental flats have been introduced in parts of Gårdsten that previously have been dominated by the older, and thus cheaper, rental flats from the Million Programme, the new construction work in the area is clearly part of a social mix strategy (Lindemann & Roelofs, 2020). Research has shown that trust in the positive effects of social mix strategies by public actors is strong, even though it might remain vague precisely what these positive effects are or how they are obtained through social mix strategies (Grander & Sjöland Kozlovic, forthcoming).…”