Is it really about values? Civic nationalism and migrant integration

Larin, Stephen J.

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2019.1591943

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“…The following section is based on our ethnographic Swedes' Relations to their Government are based on Trust Futures of Education, Culture & Nature -Learning to Become fieldwork, with examples taken from the theme on "nature and the environment", which is, as earlier mentioned, one of the modules in civic orientation courses. We end with a discussion based on our analyses, problematizing whether the civic orientation courses can be viewed as "migration control", as argued by Larin (2020), and a reflection on the call and the rhetoric to "rethink education and shape the future".…”

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“Swedes’ relations to their government are based on trust”

Brömssen

Milani

Spehar

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Civic orientation has become one of the dominant immigrant integration policies in western Europe, with the aim of transmitting knowledge, norms, and values, thereby furthering “integration” into the new country. However, there is a not much research regarding how the educational content is communicated and negotiated in civic orientation courses in practice. This article aims to bring more empirically based knowledge in this field. The case study discussed in this article explores one specific module, entitled “nature and environment”, in civic orientation courses for newly arrived adults in Sweden. This is done through participatory observations in the courses, both in classrooms in real life and on the internet and exploring in detail the negotiations between the civic orientation communicators and the course participants. The analyses show how a real “success story” of Sweden and its citizens is constructed through an overall discourse of Swedes high awareness of the environment and nature, not least through comparisons between geographical spaces in the world. The analyses also re-veal antagonistic voices about the content, although these are not particularly strong. We suggest that there is an urgent need to critically reflect on the aim, content, and teaching practices of civic orientation courses for newly arrived migrants, as these more seem to contribute to the Swedish nation’s reproduction of “banal nationalism”.

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“Swedes’ relations to their government are based on trust”

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“…This includes rhetoric around national values seen as necessary to ensure social (national) cohesion. Several countries – including the US, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia – have implemented values-based citizenship tests and integration contracts over recent years (Etzioni, 2007; Larin, 2020), designed to enforce a nationalist subjectivity. Clearly, despite the ubiquity and depth of some cosmopolitanisation processes, predictions of a post-national world populated with cosmopolitan subjectivities appear to have been premature.…”

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Special issue introduction: Post-national formations and cosmopolitanism

Fozdar

Woodward

2021

Journal of Sociology

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In the last quarter of the 20th century the study of globalisation was refined in many ways and especially in the direction of conceptualising the connections, entanglements and interdependencies of the global. An array of terms arose to capture these complexities, many containing the suggestion of superseding the nation. The terms ‘post-national’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ are two fields that have come to signify thispossibility. Our contributors engage with the idea of the post-national in a variety of manifestations, focusing on addressing fundamental questions related to the extent and durability of post-national expressions. This collection of articles trace contemporary theoretical debates, and provide empirical material in a variety of contexts using multiple approaches. Collectively, they affirm the relevance of the category of the post-national, and related cosmopolitan outlooks, while charting the mixed, ambivalent, and sometimes reactionary responses to it.

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“…This has important implications for interpreting the relations between various forms of nationalism (e.g. civic and ethnic) and their relations to migrant integration, for example (Larin 2020).…”

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Problematizing ‘Bordering, Ordering, and Othering’ as Manifestations of Socio‐Spatial Fetishism

Paasi

2020

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This paper will re‐examine and reflect critically Henk van Houtum and Ton van Naerssen’s paper ‘Bordering, Ordering and Othering’ that came out in a related theme issue in TESG in 2002. My first goal is to contextualise their paper into the debates on borders/bordering that began to flourish at the turn of the millennium and have emerged since then. I will then evaluate the enduring significance of this text and discuss the geohistory of othering. My final intention is to push their ideas further and to problematise the processes of bordering, ordering and othering as ideological and material manifestations of socio‐spatial fetishism that often conceal power relations and the alternatives for challenging and transcending these processes.

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Is it really about values? Civic nationalism and migrant integration

Cited by 27 publications

References 44 publications

“Swedes’ relations to their government are based on trust”

“Swedes’ relations to their government are based on trust”

Special issue introduction: Post-national formations and cosmopolitanism

Problematizing ‘Bordering, Ordering, and Othering’ as Manifestations of Socio‐Spatial Fetishism

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