Integrationen och arbetets marknad: Hur jämställdhet, arbete och annat "svenskt" görs av arbetsförmedlare och privata aktörer

Larsson, Jennie

doi:10.3384/diss.diva-122907

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“…Even though it is not regularly made explicit in the statements analyzed in this article, there is a parallel between the descriptions of the girls as being subjugated and the wider discourses on Swedish gender equality, according to which migrants are problematized in terms of patriarchal norms and traditions (cf. Larsson 2015). At the same time, there is also a parallel with the wider problematization of girls and women in general, in sports as well as in society at large.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Problematizing the absent girl: sport as a means of emancipation and social inclusion

2019

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Absence from sport participation among girls from ethno-cultural minorities is often highlighted as an inclusion policy challenge. Based on 35 interviews with community sports coaches, managers and partners, we explore how the absence of girls is problematized in four Swedish sports-based interventions, focusing on how problems, as well as the means and the ends of social inclusion, are articulated. The girls are assessed as being in need of social change due to their alleged social exclusion. Absence is explained by “patriarchal norms” as well as by the introvert conduct of the girls themselves. Girls-only sports activities performed by female coaches as role models are described as a way for girls to gain social inclusion and to become emancipated from subjugating norms. In conclusion, participation in community sport is highlighted in discourse as crucial for adopting powers of emancipation. A similar discourse could be recognized elsewhere, inside and outside the realm of sport.

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confidence: 98%

Problematizing the absent girl: sport as a means of emancipation and social inclusion

2019

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“…According to this policy, in order to qualify for welfare benefits individuals outside the labour market need to demonstrate that they are trying to find employment (Fernqvist 2013, 35). In the last decade, the workfare approach has reshaped Swedish integration policy into a primarily labour-market issue (Larsson 2015). The youngsters' narratives on education and work are to some extent a manifestation of how they adapt and position themselves within the discursive logic of the workfare policy in Sweden.…”

Section: Responsible Education-oriented Selfmentioning

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Across the threshold: negotiations of deservingness among unaccompanied young refugees in Sweden

Wernesjö

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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In the aftermath of the so-called 'refugee crisis' in 2015, unaccompanied minors have been depicted as potential threats and challenges to receiving countries in the Swedish public debate. Through narratives of unaccompanied youngsters from 2011 to 2012, this article will illustrate that these youngsters were already struggling with the ambiguous refugee figures of the 'deserving' and 'undeserving' prior to the events of 2015. By studying their narratives, I analyse how deservingness comes into play in how they constitute themselves as subjects. In their narratives, they describe themselves as responsible, hard-working youngsters in relation to education and future working life. Moreover, their narratives also illustrate how descriptions of diligence and agency are used in order to oppose the discourse figures of unaccompanied minors as threats or victims. I conclude by suggesting that these narratives can be seen as manifestations of conditional belonging centred on deservingness, which the youngsters negotiate also after they have been granted protection. KEYWORDS Unaccompanied youth; narratives; positioning; deservingness; diligence 'crisis'. In November 2015, the government declared the need for a 'breathing space' in asylum reception. Concurrently, disbelief and suspicion towards asylum seekers grew, with a normalisation of immigrant-critical discourses (Dahlgren 2016). Suspicions were raised about asylum seekers' claims and motives, but also regarding their perceived identities and culture. This was particularly the case for unaccompanied boys, who were portrayed in terms of a 'problematic masculinity' (cf. Herz 2018). Another suspicion

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“…In contrast, exploitative racism has a completely different intersection of gender and racism; the focus is on the construction of (cheap) labour through racialisation. While racialisation is used with respect to both men and women, it is also gendered in the construction of exploitable labour, as the quote from Orback above demonstrated (see also Larsson 2015). In the Swedish context, the discursive strategy has mainly been used to construct migrant women as comprising a cheap labour force, both in care work in the private sector and in the expansion of the sex industry.…”

Section: Two Modes: Exclusionary and Exploitative Racismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorising Racism: <i>Exploring the Swedish racial regime</i>

Mulinari¹,

Neergaard

2017

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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Sociologists Bonilla-Silva and Baiocchi (2001) assert that sociologists, protected by a myth of neutrality and objectivity, follow the understandings of racism in their analysis of inequality as relegated to a secondary status, either according to the Marxist tradition as the superstructure or within a Weberian framework as a form of status difference. The aim of the article is to put the study of racism, a fundamental principle of social organisation in modern society, at the centre of social theory. The aim is also to develop a productive dialogue with the traditions of Critical Race Theory (CRT), neo-Marxism and Black feminism; traditions that we will argue are highly relevant for the analysis of the Swedish racial regime.

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Integrationen och arbetets marknad: Hur jämställdhet, arbete och annat "svenskt" görs av arbetsförmedlare och privata aktörer

Cited by 32 publications

References 47 publications

Problematizing the absent girl: sport as a means of emancipation and social inclusion

Problematizing the absent girl: sport as a means of emancipation and social inclusion

Across the threshold: negotiations of deservingness among unaccompanied young refugees in Sweden

Theorising Racism: <i>Exploring the Swedish racial regime</i>

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