Crisis of Solidarity? Changing Welfare and Migration Regimes in Sweden

Dahlstedt, Magnus; Neergaard, Anders

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“…In disadvantaged areas throughout Sweden, the interrelated effects of spatial separation, marginalisation in the labour market, and territorial stigmatisation produce social, economic as well as educational inequalities, affecting children and youth in particular (Bunar & Sernhede, 2013). Together with a sharp increase in immigration to Sweden in recent years (Dahlstedt & Neergaard, 2016), these processes of urban polarisation have been manifested in sharper ethno-cultural divisions in the Swedish urban landscape (Gustafsson, Katz, & Österberg, 2016). More and more, the deprived areas of the urban landscape have been characterised by high levels of migrant populations (Andersson, 2013).…”

Section: Social Inclusion and The Role Of Sportmentioning

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Football for Inclusion: Examining the Pedagogic Rationalities and the Technologies of Solidarity of a Sports-Based Intervention in Sweden

Ekholm

Dahlstedt

2017

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Sports practices have been emphasised in social policy as a means of responding to social problems. In this article we analyse a sports-based social intervention performed in a "socially vulnerable" area in Sweden. We examine the formation of includable citizens in this project, based on interviews with representatives involved in the project. The material is analysed from a governmentality perspective, focusing on how problems and solutions are constructed as being constitutive of each other. The focus of the analysis is on social solidarity and inclusion as contemporary challenges, and how sport, specifically football, is highlighted as a way of creating social solidarity through a pedagogic rationality-football as a means of fostering citizens according to specific ideals of solidarity and inclusion. The formation of solidarity appears not as a mutual process whereby an integrated social collective is created, but rather as a process whereby those affected by exclusion are given the opportunity to individually adapt to a set of Swedish norms, and to linguistic and cultural skills, as a means of reaching the "inside". Inclusion seems to be possible as long as the "excluded" adapt to the "inside", which is made possible by the sports-based pedagogy. In conclusion, social problems and social tensions are spatially located in "the Area" of "the City", whose social policy, of which this sports-based intervention is a part, maintains rather than reforms the social order that creates these very tensions.

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Section: Social Inclusion and The Role Of Sportmentioning

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Football for Inclusion: Examining the Pedagogic Rationalities and the Technologies of Solidarity of a Sports-Based Intervention in Sweden

Ekholm

Dahlstedt

2017

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“…In the present decade, however, the strong corporatist arrangement that shaped labour immigration to Sweden in the past has been weakened, if not dismantled (Dahlstedt and Neergaard, ). Now, the employment of skilled migrants occurs in the context of what has been termed ‘the knowledge‐based economy’ (Sum and Jessop, ).…”

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Strategies for recruiting highly skilled migrants from India and China: a case study of firms in Sweden

Frank

2018

Industrial Relations Journal

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A striking characteristic in labour migration to Western Europe since the beginning of the 2000s has been the increased number of skilled migrants. In Sweden, most skilled migrants from countries outside the EU come from India, but there has also been significant skilled migration from China. This article investigates the impact that firms have on the migration from India and China. It focuses on managers' motives for employing migrants, their view of migrant workers and the means they use to find suitable workers. The article argues that interorganisational relationships play a key role in the recruitment of highly skilled migrants. The firms that employ migrants hold positions in an organisational field, and the relationships they have with other actors within the field shape how and why they employ migrants. The empirical data was collected through a multiple‐case study of 13 firms that have employed high‐skilled migrants from India and China.

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“…On the one hand, there is still a desire to include migrants into Swedish society. On the other hand, public discourse has gradually become tougher, with an increasingly authoritarian character (Dahlstedt & Neergaard, 2016;Schierup, Hansen, & Castles, 2006). More recently, this has been exemplified by the growing popularity and electoral success of the right-wing populist party, the Swedish Democrats, with an explicit focus on both polarising and politicising the 'problems' of migration and multicultural Sweden (Berggren & Neergaard, 2015;Norocel, 2017).…”

Section: Migration 'Swedish Values' and Adult Educationmentioning

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Futures in line? Occupational choice among migrant adult students in Sweden

Dahlstedt

Fejes

2018

International Journal of Lifelong Education

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The aim of this article is to analyse the ways in which migration plays out in adult students' narratives about their occupational choice and future, focusing on three individual narratives of adult students with various experiences of migration to Sweden. Drawing on Sara Ahmed's conception of orientation, our results show how the adult students' narratives on their future occupations are formed on the basis of migration, pertaining to their particular experiences of being recognised as migrant Others. Among the three students, similar challenges emerge in terms of their claims for belonging. One the one hand, the students do claim belonging to the Swedish social community. On the other hand, they areas 'migrants'repeatedly reminded of their non-belonging to this community. In various ways, they feel out of place. Although migration, in the narratives, is not played out one and the same way, but in various ways, engagement in adult education as a means of finding a job appear as the main orientation guiding the futures of the adult students, as being an important way of finding a future and claim one's belonging to the Swedish social community.

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Crisis of Solidarity? Changing Welfare and Migration Regimes in Sweden

Abstract: Europe is in crisis.

Cited by 86 publications

References 27 publications

Football for Inclusion: Examining the Pedagogic Rationalities and the Technologies of Solidarity of a Sports-Based Intervention in Sweden

Football for Inclusion: Examining the Pedagogic Rationalities and the Technologies of Solidarity of a Sports-Based Intervention in Sweden

Strategies for recruiting highly skilled migrants from India and China: a case study of firms in Sweden

Futures in line? Occupational choice among migrant adult students in Sweden

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