Model Minority and Honorary White? Structural and Individual Accounts on Being Asian in Sweden

Törngren, Sayaka Osanami; Irastorza, Nahikari; Kazlou, Aliaksei

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“…Despite the avoidance to specifically address race in society and in academia in Sweden, research shows that race does, indeed, matter in different aspects of contemporary Swedish society and how race is lived in our body (Hübinette & Lundström, 2020; Osanami Törngren, 2020; Wolgast & Wolgast, 2021). Studies in Sweden clearly show racialization and racial formation; how identities as persons as Black (Kalonaityte et al., 2007; Wolgast et al., 2018), Asian (Hübinette, 2021; Hübinette & Tigervall, 2012; Osanami Törngren et al., 2023), Middle Eastern (Khosravi, 2009) and Latino (Lundström, 2007) develop through interaction and contact with the White majority society and how people are made aware of their position in society; and the ways in which their bodies function as “racial frontiers” (Lentin, 2020). Therefore, race is real for both White Swedes and non‐White Swedes and “affect[s] their social life whether individual members of the races want it or not” (Bonilla‐Silva, 1997, p. 473).…”

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What does racial ascription have to do with perception of Swedishness?

Osanami Törngren,

Nyström

2024

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How do Swedes, who are not exposed to administrative routines of reporting race and ethnicity, perceive, and categorize faces with different phenotypical features? This study examines identity contestation that can occur and address how race affects the way you are perceived as Swedish. A sample of Swedish participants were asked to assign racial categories to images of faces with different phenotypes, identify the skin color of the faces and rate how ‘Swedish’ the faces are perceived. We also use eye‐tracking to explore whether participants look differently at the faces of different racial groups. The results show greater identity contestation among Latino and Black faces. Moreover, while Swedish respondents identify the skin color of faces self‐identified as Black as darker compared to other racial backgrounds, the differences in skin color reported between Asian, White and Latinos were very small. Despite these small differences in the perception of skin color among Asian, White, and Latino faces, faces self‐reported as White were rated as significantly more Swedish by the respondents compared Asian and Latino faces. All these results contribute to the understanding of not only how race matters in Sweden but also to the understanding of constructivist nature of race.

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Section: The Swedish Contextmentioning

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What does racial ascription have to do with perception of Swedishness?

Osanami Törngren,

Nyström

2024

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“…Such connections also produce social bridges between them and other communities, including relationships with members of other migrant communities and/or local community members that could facilitate the development of social links with institutions, including local and central government services, improving migrants' access to social services and their participation in broader civic engagement activities (see also [19]). Finally, this process also incorporates several external dimensions, including the general conditions in which the reception takes place, as well as legal, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors [20]. This means that beyond the migration and integration policies framing the integration process and counteracting the media discourse on migrants (see Section 1), the success of integration is highly dependent on the local community's attitude towards migrants in term of personal proximity and rates of interactions as a supportive environment is of high importance for the success and well-being of migrants.…”

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Participation and Social Innovation as a Compass towards Integration: The Rationale behind the INTE-great Project

Cuconato

2023

Societies

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This paper presents the theoretical and operational approach of the AMIF-funded project INTE-great “Stakeholder Partnership for the Integration of Migrants”, which has the aim of building a stronger integration strategy and ecosystem for migrants, in particular asylum seekers, refugees and migrants with subsidiary protection (women, men, families and LGBTIQ+) at the urban level through cross-sector stakeholder partnerships, developing an innovative integration strategy framework (ISF) according to which five pilot initiatives will be tested through experimentation in five partnering countries (IT, ES, EL, CY and IE). The paper is structured as follows: After retracing the main development of the integration concept in different social sciences, we propose the operational definition of integration adopted in the project. We then concentrate on the role of migrants’ participation in enhancing a more effective integration path, before presenting the way in which we interpret the meaning of social innovation in the five pilot initiatives of the INTE-great project. We conclude by highlighting that a multistakeholder partnership adopting a real participatory migrant approach in the codesign, implementation and evaluation of the pilot initiatives constitutes the added value of social innovation in the field of migrants’ integration services.

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Socio‐Legal Production of the Tourist‐Seasonal Labourer for the Finnish Berry Industry

Seikkula

2024

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The article investigates the phenomenon of precarious labour within the Finnish wild berry industry, focusing on the socio‐legal dimensions that enable short‐term “just‐in‐time” migration, primarily from Thailand, for the berry season. Since the initial 2005 recruitment of Thai citizens to engage in forest berry picking for the Finnish berry industry, the industry has become heavily reliant on migrant labour. At the same time, the pickers’ situation exemplifies a case of unregulated labour, as pickers are categorised as a group outside of labour laws in Finland. By asking how this “non‐work”—berry picking without labour rights—has repeatedly been justified on a policy level, the article provides a case study that unpacks the creation of a racialised migrant labour force through a statecraft of differential inclusion, in an arrangement regarded to advance rural economies. Empirically, the article draws on an analysis of policy documents through which a particular kind of temporary migration corridor is administered.

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Model Minority and Honorary White? Structural and Individual Accounts on Being Asian in Sweden

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

What does racial ascription have to do with perception of Swedishness?

What does racial ascription have to do with perception of Swedishness?

Participation and Social Innovation as a Compass towards Integration: The Rationale behind the INTE-great Project

Socio‐Legal Production of the Tourist‐Seasonal Labourer for the Finnish Berry Industry

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