Committed to Integration: Local Media Representations of Refugee Integration Work in Northern Sweden

Schmauch, Ulrika; Nygren, Katarina Giritli

doi:10.33134/njmr.326

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“…There is a strong emphasis on integration through employment present in national policy regimes (Schmauch and Nygren 2020) which is also reflected in the integration projects we study. Central in the applications is that the immigrants should be attractive in the labour market and become employable as quickly as possible.…”

Section: Integration To the Swedish Way Of Life: The 'What' Of Integr...mentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Integration as a policy is often described as a two-way process, but as a practice it commonly ends up being a one-sided process of adaptation by the immigrants (Grip 2020;Schmauch and Nygren 2020). This description of integration as one-sided is a reoccurring narrative in the applications and is articulated in terms of the lack of Swedes for the immigrants to meet.…”

Section: Absent Swedish Menmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Integrating the Immigrant the Swedish Way? Understandings of Citizenship and Integration in Swedish Local Civic Integration Projects

Hudson

Sandberg

Sundström

2022

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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In Sweden, integration is a pressing issue particularly following the large influx of immigrants in 2015. Swedish municipalities play an important role in civic integration, with responsibility for newly arrived immigrants receiving a basic understanding of Swedish society, their rights and obligations. We analyse data from 204 applications granted funding 2016/2017 for projects improving the integration of refugees into society by co-operation between municipalities and other actors. Using thematic analysis, we identify two broad themes. One concerning the 'what' of integrationthe Swedish values, norms and behaviours that immigrants are expected to learn in order to become 'good' Swedish citizens, and the other concerning the means or the 'how' of integration. However, although these projects are wellmeaning, they may have normalizing and disciplining effects whereby the immigrant is constructed as subordinate, as the Other. Swedish gender-equality is heavily emphasized and we see how, in relation to this, the immigrant is constructed as unmodern, bound by tradition and unequal. Particularly immigrant women are produced as passive objects rather than active subjects, in need of special women's activities and lacking as parents in comparison with the Swedish ideal.

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Section: Integration To the Swedish Way Of Life: The 'What' Of Integr...mentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Absent Swedish Menmentioning

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Integrating the Immigrant the Swedish Way? Understandings of Citizenship and Integration in Swedish Local Civic Integration Projects

Hudson

Sandberg

Sundström

2022

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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“…2018). Aineistona on käytetty myös paikkakunnan ääntä edustavista sanomalehdistä kerättyjä tekstejä (Hubbard 2005;Schmauch & Nygren 2020;Hudson & Sandberg 2021). Mediakeskusteluissa työperäiset maahanmuuttajat hyväksytään, kun sen sijaan muista ryhmistä puhutaan rasitteena ja uhkana (Hubbard 2005) 1 .…”

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Sireni

2022

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Artikkelissa analysoidaan arkisen maailmankansalaisuuden ilmenemistä Pohjois-Karjalaan päätyneiden ulkomaalaistaustaisten kertomuksissa itsestään, kohtaamisistaan pohjoiskarjalaisten kanssa sekä kokemuksistaan Itä-Suomesta uutena asuinpaikkanaan. Tavoitteena on pohtia maaseutututkimukseen omaksutun maailmankansalaisuuden käsitteen käyttökelpoisuutta kotimaisessa kontekstissa. Aineistona käytetään sanomalehti Karjalaisessa julkaistuja haastatteluja, joita analysoidaan teorialähtöisen sisällönanalyysin keinoin. Tutkimus osoittaa, että maailmankansalaisuuden käsitteen avulla voidaan tehdä näkyväksi kantaväestön ja maahanmuuttajien monenlaista liikkuvuutta ja yhteyksiä maaseudulla. Sen avulla voidaan myös kuvata ryhmien välisten kulttuuristen erojen epätäydellistä ja osittaista liudentumista. Maailmankansalaisuus on käyttökelpoinen käsite, kun tavoitteena on purkaa maahanmuuttoa käsittelevien tutkimusten stereotyyppisiä mielikuvia maaseutumaisuudesta ja kaupunkimaisuudesta. Samalla on mahdollista kyseenalaistaa kategorisia oletuksia kokemattomasta ja vastahankaisesti maahanmuuttajiin suhtautuvasta maaseutuväestöstä.

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Migrants as sustainability actors: Contrasting nation, city and migrant discourses and actions

Fry,

Boyd,

Connaughton

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Global Environmental Change

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Committed to Integration: Local Media Representations of Refugee Integration Work in Northern Sweden

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Integrating the Immigrant the Swedish Way? Understandings of Citizenship and Integration in Swedish Local Civic Integration Projects

Integrating the Immigrant the Swedish Way? Understandings of Citizenship and Integration in Swedish Local Civic Integration Projects

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Migrants as sustainability actors: Contrasting nation, city and migrant discourses and actions

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