Suburban encounters: super-diversity, diasporic relationality and everyday practices in the Nordic context

Huttunen, Laura; Juntunen, Marko

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2018.1531695

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“…Both have a lively shopping centre, where services are concentrated. As previous studies show (e.g., Huttunen & Juntunen, 2020;Tuominen, 2020), there is a strong sense of belonging and community spirit among the residents of both neighbourhoods.…”

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confidence: 61%

“…Both neighbourhoods were built in the 1960s and 1970s to accommodate a growing urban population. Since the 1990s, they have experienced a socioeconomic decline and a rapid transformation into a multicultural milieu (Huttunen & Juntunen, 2020;Tuominen, 2020), representing the suburban type of neighbourhood found in various European cities, commonly labelled as "disadvantaged" (cf. Blokland & Nast, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since the 1960s, the environments of many Finnish suburbs have been criticised for being monotonous sites of social alienation which lack the provision of public spaces (Saarikangas, 2014). However, inhabitants' accounts often contrast with these negative representations and express a strong sense of belonging and community (Huttunen & Juntunen, 2020;Saarikangas, 2014;Tuominen, 2020). Today, many high-rise Nordic neighbourhoods are facing major regeneration plans and the re-location of public services from the suburbs to larger units.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Street-Level Workers and the Construction of Social Infrastructure in Suburban Neighbourhoods

Kuoppa

Kymäläinen

2022

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The article examines the provision of social infrastructures in suburban neighbourhoods from the perspective of street-level workers. The concept of infrastructure is usually related to material and structural conditions but can equally apply to social infrastructures that are continuously constructed and maintained in social practices. These social infrastructures are embedded in structures and social arrangements and are related to past decisions. Our research focuses on the social infrastructures of two high-rise suburbs in Finland, built in the 1960s and 1970s. Since the 1990s, these neighbourhoods have experienced socioeconomic decline and transformation into a multicultural milieu. While suburbs have often been overlooked in urban politics and public discourses, a wide range of social infrastructures have also evolved in these districts and are continuously maintained. The main research data consists of interviews with street-level workers who participate in the production of such local social infrastructures. The article identifies and analyses the essential factors and preconditions as well as the challenges and contradictions of the provision of social infrastructure in these suburban contexts. This understanding is needed in order to foster an extensive social infrastructure and to deter counterforces from exacerbating socio-spatial inequalities and social polarisation in cities.

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Street-Level Workers and the Construction of Social Infrastructure in Suburban Neighbourhoods

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Kymäläinen

2022

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“…Besides setting the mothers apart from other locals, she endeavored to blur the robust ethnoracial boundary that is commonly found to fuel distant, if not distended, relations between the inhabitants of Finnish multiethnic residential areas like Kamppila (Huttunen and Juntunen 2020; Sotkasiira and Haverinen 2016). Leena challenged the representation of immigrant mothers as ignorant and deviant, deep‐seated in the Finnish context (Berg and Peltola 2015; Intke‐Hernández and Holm 2015), by casting the two mothers as equal mother peers, as potential confidants rather than as “culturally” different and, hence, inevitably distanced neighbors.…”

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On the Importance of Playing House: Belonging Work and the Making of Relational Citizens in Finnish Immigrant Integration Policies

Haapajärvi

2021

Politics & Policy

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As participatory immigrant integration policies proliferate in Europe, it has become urgent to analyze the dynamics of citizenship these policies produce. This article forges the notion of belonging‐work to explore the practices that frontline social workers use to manage relations between immigrant women and their native neighbors. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Helsinki, Finland, the article accounts for belonging as a socially situated phenomenon—as an interactive process that takes place in concrete institutional settings. It attracts attention to the domestic mode of belonging toward which welfare professionals channel immigrant women's local participation by constructing collective identities as local mothers, cultivating extended practices of care, and orchestrating feelings of “hominess” between the mobilized women. A pragmatic solution to preventing social isolation in inactive migrant women, participatory integration measures—if practiced alone—appear to hold weak potential for producing equal citizenship. Related Articles in this Special Issue Barrault‐Stella, Lorenzo, and Thomas Douniès. 2021a. “From Good ‘User’ to Good Citizen? The Political Effects on Families of Education Policies in France.” Politics & Policy 49 (4). Barrault‐Stella, Lorenzo, and Thomas Douniès. 2021b. “Introduction to the Special Issue: Citizenship as a Tool of Government in Europe.” Politics & Policy 49 (4). Ewert, Benjamin. 2021. “Citizenship as a Form of Anticipatory Obedience? Implications of Preventive Health Policy in Germany.” Politics & Policy 49 (4).

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“…Super-diversity has only arisen in certain urban areas in recent years in the Nordic region, see for instance Huttunen and Juntunen's (2018) ethnographic study of the urban neighbourhood Varissuo in Finland where 80% of school starters in 2015 had a mother tongue other than Finnish. Even given the presence of indigenous Sami peoples in northern Scandinavia, school systems have tended to be monolingual and monocultural (Horst & Pihl, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Developing an understanding of intercultural music education in a Nordic setting

Rinde

Christophersen

2021

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The purpose of this article is to achieve greater clariﬁcation of the meaning of the word ‘intercultural’ when used in Nordic music education research, by means of a literature review. The findings suggest that ‘intercultural’ is used in different ways, sometimes without definition. A central theme that emerges is developing student teachers’ intercultural competence through disturbance. There is little research into pupils’ intercultural competence, or intercultural music education at primary level. The findings are merged with international scholarship to envisage how different understandings of ‘intercultural’ might affect music in schools. We suggest placing intercultural music education along a continuum from intercultural approaches to music education to intercultural education through inclusive music pedagogy.

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Suburban encounters: super-diversity, diasporic relationality and everyday practices in the Nordic context

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Street-Level Workers and the Construction of Social Infrastructure in Suburban Neighbourhoods

Street-Level Workers and the Construction of Social Infrastructure in Suburban Neighbourhoods

On the Importance of Playing House: Belonging Work and the Making of Relational Citizens in Finnish Immigrant Integration Policies

Developing an understanding of intercultural music education in a Nordic setting

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