Reimagineering the Nation: Essays on Twenty-First-Century Sweden

376 Pages·2017·5.244 MB·English

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Reimagineering the Nation
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Reimagineering the Nation
Essays on Twenty-First-Century Sweden
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Names: Ålund, Aleksandra, 1945- editor. | Schierup, Carl-Ulrik, editor.
| Neergaard, Anders, editor.
Title: Reimagineering the nation : essays on twenty-first-century Sweden
/ Aleksandra Alund, Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Anders Neergaard (eds.).
Description: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, [2017] | Series:
Political and social change, ISSN 2198-8595 ; Vol. 4
Identifiers: LCCN 2016050418 | ISBN 9783631715185
Subjects: LCSH: Sweden—Social conditions—21st century. | Sweden—
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Table of Contents
Author Bioses ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������7
Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Aleksandra Ålund & Anders Neergaard
1� Reimagineering the Nation: Crisis and Social Transformation in
21st Century Sweden� An Introduction ����������������������������������������������������������������9
PART I: THE WELFARE STATE IN CRISIS. TOO DIVERSE OR
TOO AUSTERE?
Carl-Ulrik Schierup & Simone Scarpa
2� How the Swedish Model Was (Almost) Lost� Migration, Welfare and
Politics of Solidarity ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������41
Anders Neergaard
3� The Swedish Model in Transition: Trade Unions and Racialised Workers ������85
Diana Mulinari & Åsa Lundqvist
4� Invisible, Burdensome and Threatening: The Location of
Migrant Women in the Swedish Welfare State �����������������������������������������������119
PART II: NEOLIBERAL REIMAGINEERING
Viktor Vesterberg
5� Rationalities of Exclusionary Inclusion: Constructing
Others while Combating Social Exclusion �����������������������������������������������������141
Anna Gavanas
6� Swedish Retirement Migrants and Domestic Services in Spain:
Informalisation and Moral Economy in Reimagining Sweden ��������������������165
Magnus Dahlstedt & Anders Trumberg
7� Towards a New Education Regime: The Neoliberal Turn in
Swedish Education Policy ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������189
Magnus Dahlstedt & Vanja Lozić
8� Problematizing Parents: Representations of Multi-Ethnic
Areas, Youth and Urban Unrest �����������������������������������������������������������������������209
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Randi Elin Gressgård
9� Welfare Policing and the Safety–Security Nexus in Urban Governance:
The Expanded Cohesion Agenda in Malmö���������������������������������������������������235
PART III: REIMAGINING COMMUNITY
Diana Mulinari & Anders Neergaard
10� From Racial to Racist State? The Sweden Democrats
Reimagining the Nation ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������257
Paula Mulinari
11� Workplaces on the Move: Professional Mobilisation against the
Extreme Right ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������285
Nedžad Mešić
12� Framing Solidarity in the Unionisation of Undocumented
Migrant Workers ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������303
Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Aleksandra Ålund & Lisa Kings
13� Reading the Stockholm Riots: A Moment for Social Justice? ��������������������327
René León Rosales & Aleksandra Ålund
14� Renaissance from the Margins: Urban Youth Activism in Sweden �����������351
Author Bioses
Aleksandra Ålund is professor at REMESO, The Institute for Research on Migra-
tion, Ethnicity and Society at Linköping University� She has published widely in
Swedish, English and other languages on international migration and ethnicity,
identity, culture, gender, youth and social movements�
Magnus Dahlstedt is professor in Social Work at Linköping University� His main
research interest concerns constructions of citizenship in the multi-ethnic society
with a particular focus on struggles over boundaries of citizenship�
Anna Gavanas is associate professor at Remeso/ Linköping University� Her research
covers migration, policy anthropology, gender studies, welfare states, working life
and labour studies� Areas of specialization are, among other, domestic services in
the EU, privatization of elderly care as well as U�S� fatherhood politics�
Randi Gressgård is professor at Centre for Women’s and Gender Research
(SKOK), and affiliated with the research unit International Migration and Ethnic
Relations (IMER), University of Bergen� Her research interests include migration
and minority studies, gender and sexuality studies, and urban studies�
Lisa Kings is senior lecturer at Södertörn University, Sweden� Her research and
publications, nationally and internationally, in Swedish and English, are focused
on issues on urban theory, social movements, social justice, civil society organiza-
tion and everyday life�
Åsa Lundqvist is professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Lund University�
Her main research interests include feminist analysis of the history of the welfare
state and welfare policies, especially labour market regulation and family policies�
Vanja Lozic, Ph�D� senior lecturer at the School of Education and Environment,
Kristianstad University, Sweden� His research deals with issues in education from
the perspectives of ethnicity, multiculturalism, disability and youth cultures� He
has published articles on integrated learning and museum-studies�
Diana Mulinari is professor at the Department of Gender Studies, Lund Univer-
sity� Her research focuses on issues of gender and division of labour in a global
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and intersectional perspective, relating gender and sexuality to issues of social
class and ethnicity� She has studied processes of migration and changing ethnic
and gender regimes and the mobilisation of new social solidarities�
Paula Mulinari is associate professor at the department of Social Work, at Malmö
University� Her main research interest is on labour processes, gender, racialised
and class inequalities in the labour market�
Anders Neergaard is associate professor in sociology at REMESO, The Institute
for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society at Linköping University� His
research and publications span issues such as labour migration, racial discrimina-
tion, trade union organisation and extreme right-wing/racist parties�
René León Rosales is a postdoctoral researcher at the Child and Youth Studies,
Uppsala University� His research focuses on local democracy and policies against
discrimination with a focus on ethnic segregation and young people’s identifica-
tion and life strategies in multi-ethnic societies�
Simone Scarpa is a postdoctoral researcher at REMESO, The Institute for Re-
search on Migration, Ethnicity and Society at Linköping University� His research
interests are: comparative social policy research, urban studies, poverty and in-
equality analysis, residential segregation in cities�
Carl-Ulrik Schierup is professor at REMESO, The Institute for Research on Mi-
gration, Ethnicity and Society, Linköping University, Sweden� His research and
wide range of national and international publications cover issues of international
migration, multiculturalism, racism, social-reconstruction in post-communist
states, globalisation and the precarization of labour�
Anders Trumberg is a researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at
Uppsala University and affiliated to Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CUReS)
at Örebro University� His work is focused on ethnicity, identity and social segrega-
tion within the Swedish schools system�
Viktor Vesterberg is a PhD lecturer at REMESO, the Institute for Research on
Migration, Ethnicity and Society at Linköping University� His research focuses
on the governance of unemployed migrants�