‘A one way ticket to the city, please!’ on young women leaving the Swedish peripheral region Västernorrland

Rauhut, Daniel; Littke, Hélène

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.05.003

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“…According to the two Swedish researchers Rauhut and Littke (2014), the so-called "macho culture" in the peripheral areas may be a factor which tends to have a more or less indirect impact on the young women's decision to move, because the young women find that the variation in their social and cultural options is insufficient, and because the space "offered" to them in the peripheral areas does not provide them with sufficiently positive value for them to remain there:…”

Section: Swedenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Place, (In)Equality and Gender

Faber¹,

Nielsen²,

Bennike³

2015

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Section: Swedenmentioning

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Place, (In)Equality and Gender

Faber¹,

Nielsen²,

Bennike³

2015

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“…This may mirror participants’ ‘failures’ to live up to the welfare idea that everyone has access to upward-class mobility and social transformation through higher education [47,50]. Participants belonged to a group of women who did not move south for work or education [55,75]. These ideas about mobility and transformation also correspond to the ‘grand narrative’ about successful pathways in life being available to everyone despite social position [9,50].…”

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“…A challenge in future research is to continue the interviews while focusing on the period from the 2000s to present. Completion of longitudinal interviews up to the present may enhance our understanding of femininity constructs and health development over the life span, and during a period of rapid societal change and gendered patterns of mobility in a remote northern region that is historically viewed as in crisis and decline [54,55,75]. …”

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“…Political rhetoric has long portrayed this remote and sparsely populated northern region as ‘problematic’, ‘in crisis’, and in ‘decline’ [54]. For several decades, young people, particularly young women, have moved from the ‘rural’ and ‘remote’ north to major towns or the capital city in the south [55]. In addition to economic reasons such as higher education, employment and income, a ‘macho culture’ is suggested as one possible factor for the out-migration of young women from the north [55].…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Constructing respectability from disfavoured social positions: exploring young femininities and health as shaped by marginalisation and social context. A qualitative study in Northern Sweden

Wiklund

Ahlgren

Hammarström

2018

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Background: Gender, class and living conditions shape health and illness. However, few studies have investigated constructs of femininity in relation to health and living conditions among young women who are unemployed and marginalised at an early age. Objective: The aim of this research was to elucidate constructs of femininities in relation to structuring living conditions and expressions of health in Northern Swedish women. The time period of interest was the transition from unemployed teenagers to young adults in a social context of high unemployment and societal change across the critical ‘school-to-work-transition’ period of the life course. Methods: Qualitative content analysis was used to analyse data from repeated interviews with unemployed young women, aged 16–33 years, during the 1980s and 1990s. These longitudinal interviews were part of a cohort study in a ‘remote’ municipality in Northern Sweden that began in 1981. All girls who were not in education, employment, or training were selected for interview. An inductive analysis phase was followed by a theoretically informed phase. The contextual frame is the Nordic welfare-state model and the ‘caring state’ with its particular focus on basic and secondary education, and women’s participation in the labour market. This focus paralleled high rates of youth unemployment in northern Sweden during the study period. Results: The results are presented as the theme of ‘constructing respectability from disfavoured social positions’. Within this theme, and framed by dominant norms of patriarchal femininity, we explored the constructs of normative and altruistic, norm-breaking, and troubled femininity. Conclusions: Gender-sensitive interventions are needed to strengthen young women’s further education and positions in the labour market and to preventing exposure to violence. More research on health experiences related to the multitude of constructs of femininities in various social contexts and across the life course is needed to help design and implement such interventions.

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“…One important factor in the decision to migrate is the existing labour market (see also Bjarnason & Thorildson, ). Other motives are educational opportunities and a longing for a different way of life and a change of living environment (Rauhut & Littke, ). Policy‐makers consider the out‐migration of young people a threat to regional development, and thus of great concern (Muilu & Rusanen, ).…”

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Gendered youth strategies for inclusion in a changing society: Breaking or reproducing the local gender contract?

Stenbacka

Grubbström

Forsberg

2017

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This paper explores how place and gender relations influence young people's ways of formulating their struggles and negotiations related to education, work, family, everyday life and achievement of certain life goals. In addition, the paper examines key municipal officials' viewpoints, opening up a space for exchange and development at the interface of policy actions and young people's embodied lives. It is shown that young men and women alike are aware of the challenge to deconstruct hegemonic notions of gender. The focus is on societal changes and young people's educational and work strategies in Dalarna, Central Sweden. Historically, this county was dependent on steel, iron and paper industries: traditionally male employment sectors. Transformation of the labour market is involving new trends and expectations. A result is that gender relations associated with place-specific, as well as general, assumptions about masculinity and femininity are becoming increasingly fluid while their discursive strength remains. K E Y W O R D S education, focus-group interviews, gender contract, labour market, Sweden, youth The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

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‘A one way ticket to the city, please!’ on young women leaving the Swedish peripheral region Västernorrland

Cited by 58 publications

References 14 publications

Place, (In)Equality and Gender

Place, (In)Equality and Gender

Constructing respectability from disfavoured social positions: exploring young femininities and health as shaped by marginalisation and social context. A qualitative study in Northern Sweden

Gendered youth strategies for inclusion in a changing society: Breaking or reproducing the local gender contract?

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