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Daun, Anna; Hess, Sigurd

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“…6 This brief history provides a backdrop for the constructions of Swedishness and migrancy, which includes an image of Swedes as homogeneous and (im)migrants as different and as a separate category. Daun (1992) suggests that the image of homogeneity persists "because the native-born population is so homogeneous. There is one language, one religion and a common history" (p. 8), despite immigration and the long-term presence of indigenous minorities.…”

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“…Unlike the United States or Australia, Sweden is not historically a country of immigration, and unlike the United Kingdom or the Netherlands, it was not one of the colonial powers. Immigrants in past centuries were few and assimilated into the population, such as Germans during the Middle Ages and Walloons during the 17 th century (Daun 1992; also see Svanberg & Tydén 2005). The country slowly evolved from a country of emigration to one of immigration after World War II.…”

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Identity, Old(er) Age and Migrancy : A Social Constructionist Len

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Identity research in relation to ethnicity and migration has tended to focus on younger people whilst identity research in relation to ageing and old(er) age has not focused on migrants. This inadvertent mutual neglect has led to a lack of identity research that examines the identity categories of old(er) age and migrancy together, a lacuna that this dissertation aims to redress. This dissertation departs from a social constructionist understanding of identity as situationally accomplished in the interplay between how one defines oneself (internally) and how others define one (externally). The questions raised by this perspective and addressed in this dissertation are: When (in what situations) and in relation to whom do old(er) age and migrancy (respectively) seem to become meaningful for identification? How do the identity categories of old(er) age and migrancy seem to be negotiated? The empirical material consists of in-depth interviews with 24 older migrants (13 men, 11 women) aged between 55 and 79 who have been living in Sweden for 18 to 61 years. Interviewees come from 12 different countries that vary in perceived cultural distance from Sweden. The findings suggest that identifications with old(er) age and migrancy seem to be dynamic and flexible rather than necessarily permanently meaningful, thus gaining meaning in specific situations and in relation to particular Others. External definitions furthermore do not always seem to match with internal ones. Regardless of how old(er) age and migrancy are constructed, they seem to be negotiable. This dissertation thus contributes to identity research by studying old(er) age and migrancy together and furthermore sheds light onto how the social constructionist lens allows us to see variability where stability otherwise would be presumed.

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