De ”färgade” barnen i det vita folkhemmet. Adoption, ras och svenskhet i 1960-talets Sverige

Hübinette, Tobias

doi:10.59217/kriterium.47.c

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“…In Sweden, the discourse regarding racism and xenophobia have historically been vague and imprecise, as categories of culture and ethnicity are more often used in official statistics and research, rather than speaking of race (Vesterberg, 2015). This practice is however challenged by post-colonial researchers as problematic (see Hübinette et al, 2012; Hübinette & Lundström, 2014; Larsson, 2015; Mulinari, 2018). It is necessary to speak of racism, and thus race, since a vast number of the Swedish population are being discriminated against and systematically separated from what is known as ‘Swedish’ based on their non-white bodies (Hübinette et al, 2012; Larsson, 2015).…”

Section: The Logics Of Gender Equality and Activationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This practice is however challenged by post-colonial researchers as problematic (see Hübinette et al, 2012; Hübinette & Lundström, 2014; Larsson, 2015; Mulinari, 2018). It is necessary to speak of racism, and thus race, since a vast number of the Swedish population are being discriminated against and systematically separated from what is known as ‘Swedish’ based on their non-white bodies (Hübinette et al, 2012; Larsson, 2015). These processes of racialization create a hierarchal structure of ‘us’ and ‘them’ that is institutional and systemic.…”

Section: The Logics Of Gender Equality and Activationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gendered Activation at the Expense of Gender Equality? Activation and Gender Equality as Competing Logics in the Swedish Welfare State

Parsland

Ulmestig

2021

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This study aims to understand how goals of activation and gender equality interact in labor market programs directed towards activating unemployed participants. The study draws on interviews with 28 social workers and managers at four Swedish municipally governed labor market programs typically targeted towards poor, unemployed individuals with little to no attachment to the labor market or social insurance system. Our findings show that activation goals are understood to be clear cut and a dominant logic within the labor market programs. The gender equality goals are understood as fuzzy and subordinate to the activation logic. Our theoretical analysis, based on neo-institutional theory, shows that gendered activation as a hybrid logic is created within the four programs as a means of handling the competing logics of gender equality and activation. Gendered activation may be reasonable on an individual level, where women in long-term unemployment can sustain a higher income through work and become financially independent. In the context of the gender segregated labor market, gendered activation reproduces gendered inequalities when an increasing interest for activation policy among welfare states overshadows claims of gender equality. Furthermore, our study exemplifies the systemic reproduction of racist discourse within social- and labour market policies. Within the logic of gendered activation, migrant women become singled out as specifically problematic for Swedish society to handle when unemployment is given gendered and cultural explanations. Through the logic of gendered activation, gender equality goals become no-matter-what employment rather than employment leading to equal outcomes.

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