Lagermann, Laila Colding. Unge i – Eller Ude Af? – Skolen: Marginaliseringsprocesser Og Overskridende Forandringsbevægelser Blandt Udskolingselever Med Etnisk Minoritetsbaggrund. (2014) [PDF]

Lagermann, Laila Colding. Unge i – Eller Ude Af? – Skolen: Marginaliseringsprocesser Og Overskridende Forandringsbevægelser Blandt Udskolingselever Med Etnisk Minoritetsbaggrund. Dissertation. Aarhus University, 2014,

Denne afhandling er med finansiering fra DPU gennemført på Institut for Uddannelse og Pædagogik (DPU), Aarhus Universitet, i perioden 2009-2014. Afhandlingen har haft til hensigt at undersøge, hvilke muligheder og begrænsninger for handling, tilblivelse og forandring deltagelse i en skole skaber i henholdsvis  Danmark  og  i  Sverige for unge med etnisk minoritetsbaggrund set fra et første persons perspektiv, samt  hvordan  dette  kan  forstås  som  del  af  marginaliseringsprocesser  og  overskridende  forandringsbevægelser. Afhandlingen er en antologisk afhandling bestående af fire artikler og en indledende tekst. Den indledende tekst indledes med en indledning, efterfulgt af de indledende bevægelser gjort i relation til arbejdet  med  afhandlingen,  herunder  afhandlingens  kundskabsambitioner  og  forskningsspørgsmål. Herefter gennemgås den litteratur, jeg særligt har hæftet mig ved på området omkring marginalisering  og  overskridelse  af  marginalisering  blandt  unge  med  etnisk  minoritetsbaggrund  i  udskolingen.  Herefter redegøres for den anvendte teori, først overordnet og efterfølgende i relation til de teoretiske begreber anvendt i de enkelte artikler, og den indledende tekst afsluttes med en redegørelse for de  konkrete  metodiske  og  metodologiske  tilgange  og  fremgangsmåder,  herunder  et  afsnit  om  den  etiske fordring og praksis, der løber igennem afhandlingens teoretiske såvel som empiriske og analytiske  arbejde.  Den  indledende  tekst  afsluttes  med  nogle  konkluderende  og  afrundende  kommentarer, hvilket implicerer en gennemgang af afhandlingens bidrag, med et udgangspunkt i afhandlingens problemformulering og de dertil hørende tre forskningsspørgsmål. Efter den indledende tekst findes en oversigt over den anvendte litteratur i denne tekst, hvorefter de  fire  artikler,  som  udgør  afhandlingens analyser, præsenteres. Afhandlingen er baseret på et kvalitativt empirisk studie af 12 unge 9. klasses elever med etnisk minoritetsbaggrund i to skoler; én i København, Danmark, og én i Malmø, Sverige. Med et dobbelt perspektiv  på  både  marginaliseringsprocesser  og overskridende  forandringsbevægelser  undersøges  og  analyseres disse to fænomener i afhandlingen med en fundering i primært tre teoretiske tænkninger; en social praksisteoretisk (i hvilken situeret læringsteori er integreret i dansk-tysk kritisk psykologisk praksisforskning),  en  poststrukturalistisk  og  en  agential  realistisk.  Såvel den teoretiske som den metodologiske  tilgang  er  i  afhandlingen  valgt  ud  fra  et  ønske  om  en  decentreret  analytisk  tilgang,  der bryder  med  samfundsmæssigt  dominerende  individualiserede  og  essentialistiske  diskurser.  Således  er  ambitionen  med  afhandlingen  at  udarbejde  en  undersøgelse  på  området,  der  med  et  overodnet  udgangspunkt i de deltagende unges egne perspektiver og narrativer kan udgøre et sådan bidrag. I forhold til anden forskning på området adskiller afhandlingens sig ved et dobbeltperspektiv på både marginaliseringsprocesser  og  overskridende  forandringsbevægelser,  og  på  hvordan  race  og  etnicitet  får  betydning  i  den  sammenhæng, ligesom  det  undersøges,  hvordan  forbindelser  mellem de  unges  positioner og perspektiver i skolen og i deres øvrige liv har betydning for de unges deltagerpræmisser og handlemuligheder.

PDF: https://lailalagermann.dk/onewebmedia/Laila%20Colding%20Lagermann%20-%20PHD%20afhandling.pdf.

Lapina, Linda. Making Senses of Nordvest Tracing the Spaces, Bodies and Affects of a Gentrifyingneighborhood in Copenhagen. (2017) [PDF]

Lapina, Linda. Making Senses of Nordvest Tracing the Spaces, Bodies and Affects of a Gentrifyingneighborhood in Copenhagen. Roskilde: Dissertation. Roskilde University, 2017.

This thesis emerges from an ethnographic study of Nordvest, a district in Copenhagen. I came to know Nordvest as an area undergoing multiple changes. Nordvest was known, sensed and experienced as, among other things, “diverse” and multicultural; socially disadvantaged; a “municipality garbage bin”; an up-and-coming, gentrifying area; and peripheral and outside, or not quite “Copenhagen.” These modalities of knowing and experiencing Nordvest were mutually interlinked and emotionally polyvalent. I set out to examine how everyday social spaces in Nordvest constrained and shaped inequalities, processes of in- and exclusion, and processes of majoritization and minoritization, in particular pertaining to racialization, class, and Danishness. This thesis revolves around four research articles. Each article can be conceived as an optical device, a prism, that sheds and breaks different kinds of light on various spaces, presences and social processes in Nordvest.

https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/publications/making-senses-of-nordvest-tracing-the-spaces-bodies-and-affects-o

PDF: https://www.academia.edu/32196657/Making_Senses_of_Nordvest_Tracing_the_spaces_bodies_and_affects_of_a_gentrifying_neighborhood_in_Copenhagen

Matthiesen, Noomi Christine Linde. ‘Working Together in a Deficit Logic: Home–School Partnerships with Somali Diaspora Parents’. (2017)

Matthiesen, Noomi Christine Linde. ‘Working Together in a Deficit Logic: Home–School Partnerships with Somali Diaspora Parents’. Race Ethnicity and Education, vol. 20, no. 4, July 2017, pp. 495–507.

Drawing on discursive psychology this article examines the understandings teachers and principals in Danish Public Schools have regarding Somali diaspora parenting practices. Furthermore, the article investigates what these understandings mean in interaction with children in the classrooms and with parents in home–school communication. It is argued that in a society with increased focus on parental responsibility the teachers and principals draw on a deficit logic when dealing with Somali diaspora parents and children which consequently leads to teachers either transmitting their expertise by educating parents or compensating for perceived deficiencies in parental practices. Both these strategies result in significant marginalizing consequences where ‘difference’ is understood as ‘wrong’ or ‘inadequate’.

doi:10.1080/13613324.2015.1134469.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2015.1134469.

Mørck, Yvonne. Bindestregsdanskere: Fortællinger om køn, generationer og etnicitet.

Mørck, Yvonne. Bindestregsdanskere: Fortællinger om køn, generationer og etnicitet. Forlaget Sociologi, 1998.

Hvordan er det at være etnisk minoritesung i dagens Danmark? Hvordan klarer unge med tyrkisk-dansk, pakistansk-dansk og marrokansk-dansk baggrund balancegangen mellem flere normer, værdier og kønsideologier? Har unge kvinder og mænd forskellige muligheder, og hvilken rolle spiller det, at unge befinder sig i en vestlig storby? Hvilke forhandlinger om ungdomsliv, køn og identitet foregår der i indvandrerfamilier i disse år? Hvilke beretninger kan man høre fra det multikulturelle Danmarks unge bindestregsdanskere?Det giver denne bog et bud på gennem en vifte af fortællinger, som bygger på et feltarbejde blandt velfungerende unge i København, der er på vej i uddannelsessystemet. Vi møder unge i tværetniske foreninger, i en filmgruppe, på et gymnasium og på et pædagogseminarium. Forfatteren præsenterer os endvidere for unges fortællinger i en dokumentarfilm og i radioudsendelser, ligesom unges historier fra tidsskrifter, aviser, blade og skønlitteratur bliver inddraget på kreativ vis.Bogen giver en levende introduktion til centrale teorier inden for forskningsområder som kultur, køn, etnicitet og identitet. Den bidrager også til debatten om Danmark som et multikulturelt samfund, idet der introduceres forskellige perspekiver på, hvordan man som samfund kan håndtere øget etnisk og kulturel mangfoldighed.Bogen henvender sig til en bred målgruppe, f.eks. lærere og studerende ved pædagogiske såvel som ved social- og sundhedsuddannelsessteder, til folk der arbejder i praksis med etniske minoriteter såsom sygeplejesker, socialrådgivere, skole- og gymnasielærere, studievejledere, daghøjskole- og VUC-lærere samt lærere og studerende  på universitetet og endelig til deltagere i politisk arbejde og mennesker med almen interesse for området.

https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/publications/bindestregsdanskere-fort%C3%A6llinger-om-k%C3%B8n-generationer-og-etnicitet.

Rytter, Mikkel. ‘Writing Against Integration: Danish Imaginaries of Culture, Race and Belonging’. (2018) [PDF]

Rytter, Mikkel. ‘Writing Against Integration: Danish Imaginaries of Culture, Race and Belonging’. Ethnos, vol. 84, no. 4, Apr. 2018, pp. 678–697.

The article addresses some of the problems related to the concept of integration, which has been used (and abused) in Denmark since the 1990s to discuss socio-economic, cultural and religious challenges related to the everyday life of ethnic minorities. The concept of integration is not innocent but promotes both a specific conceptualisation of Danish society and a problematisation of immigrant minorities and their relationship to the indigenous majority. Based on the ethnographic studies conducted in Denmark in recent decades, the article attempts to disentangle the dominant social imaginary by outlining three scenarios: ‘welfare reciprocity’, ‘host and guests’ and ‘the Danes as an indigenous people’. These scenarios consolidate an asymmetrical relationship between majorities and minorities because they simultaneously cast integration as desirable and impossible. Finally, inspired by Lila Abu-Lughod’s seminal article ‘writing against culture’, the article suggests strategies of ‘writing against integration’ in order to regain the critical potential of academic analysis.

doi:10.1080/00141844.2018.1458745.

PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324526635_Writing_Against_Integration_Danish_Imaginaries_of_Culture_Race_and_Belonging.

Schmidt, Garbi. ‘“Grounded” Politics: Manifesting Muslim Identity as a Political Factor and Localized Identity in Copenhagen’. (2012)

Schmidt, Garbi. ‘“Grounded” Politics: Manifesting Muslim Identity as a Political Factor and Localized Identity in Copenhagen’. Ethnicities, vol. 12, no. 5, SAGE Publications, Oct. 2012, pp. 603–622.

A prominent strand within current migration research argues that, to understand the participation of immigrants in their host societies, we must focus on their incorporation into the cities in which they settle. This article narrows the perspective further by focusing on the role that immigrants play within one particular neighbourhood: Nørrebro in the Danish capital, Copenhagen. The article introduces the concept of grounded politics to analyse how groups of Muslim immigrants in Nørrebro use the space, relationships and history of the neighbourhood for identity political statements. The article further describes how national political debates over the Muslim presence in Denmark affect identity political manifestations within Nørrebro. By using Duncan Bell’s concept of mythscape (Bell, 2003), the article shows how some political actors idealize Nørrebro’s past to contest the present ethnic and religious diversity of the neighbourhood and, further, to frame what they see as the deterioration of genuine Danish identity.

doi:10.1177/1468796811432839.

Shield, Andrew DJ. ‘Grindr Culture: Intersectional and Socio-Sexual’. (2018) [PDF]

Shield, Andrew DJ. ‘Grindr Culture: Intersectional and Socio-Sexual’. Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization, vol. 18, no. 1, Warwick Business School, 2018, pp. 149–161.

This research note is based on ethnographic work in the greater Copenhagen area on the socio-sexual networking app Grindr and on interviews with twelve recent immigrants who use this platform. As an online space primarily for gay men, Grindr is a unique subculture in which to conduct research about intersections of sexuality with other socio-cultural categories such as race and migration background, but also gender and ability. I find that user experiences with exclusion and discrimination relate to Grindr’s interface, such as its drop-down menus, to the discourses circulated by Grindr users in profile texts, and to user- to-user interactions in private messages.

http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/grindr-culture-intersectional-and-socio-sexual

PDF: https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/publications/grindr-culture-intersectional-and-socio-sexual.

Staunæs, Dorthe. Køn, etnicitet og skoleliv. (2008)

Staunæs, Dorthe. Køn, etnicitet og skoleliv. 1. e-bogsudgave, Samfundslitteratur, 2008.

Dorthe Staunæs har fulgt to 7.klasser på hver sin skole i Storkøbenhavn og behandler blandt andet spørgsmål som: Hvilke elever opfattes som problematiske i skolen? Hvordan spiller køn og etnicitet sammen? Hvordan tackler skoleledelserne den multietniske elevgruppe?  I overgangen fra barn til ung spiller seksualitet og identitet en stor rolle, og bogen belyser, hvordan drenge- og pigekategorien skal suppleres med etnisk dimension – der er noget man kan, og noget man ikke kan, når man er henholdsvis etnisk dansk eller ikke etnisk dansk, og det kan betyde, at man skal begrænse valget af kærester i forhold til etnicitet.  Køn, etnicitet og skoleliv er et spændende blik ind i en skoleverden med multietnisk elevbesætning og kan læses af lærere, pædagoger og beslutningstagere og andre med interesse for, hvordan køn, etnicitet og skoleliv er vævet sammen i skolen i dag.

https://samfundslitteratur.dk/bog/k%C3%B8n-etnicitet-og-skoleliv

Vertelyte, Mante. ‘Not So Ordinary Friendship: An Ethnography of Student Friendships in A Racially Diverse Danish Classroom’. (2019) [PDF]

Vertelyte, Mante. Not So Ordinary Friendship: An Ethnography of Student Friendships in A Racially Diverse Danish Classroom. Dissertation. Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 2019.

“Not So Ordinary Friendship: An Ethnography of Student Friendships in a Racially Diverse Danish Classroom” explores the roles that young people’s friendships play in  the  production  and  reproduction  of  processes  of  racialization.  This  dissertation asks how and when does race come to matter (or not) in young people’s friendship relations? What identities and subject positions do friendship relations produce?And how  are  young  people’s  friendships  across  intersecting  markers  of  difference situated  politically,  discursively  and  socially?  This  dissertation  is  based  on  the premise  that  the  analysis  of  everyday  youth  friendship  formations  practices  can produce  important  knowledge  for  understanding  the  underlying  mechanisms  of processes of racialization. This  dissertation  derives  from  a  one-year  long  ethnographic  study  at  a  racially diverse  secondary  school  in  Copenhagen.  The  study  includes  32interviews  with students  attending  the  7thgrade  classroom  at  the  school  and  12interviews  with professional staff working at the school and municipal youth clubs. Data is analyzed through    the    approaches    of    critical    race    studies,    affect-sensory    theory, intersectionality  and  social practice  theory;  particularly  through  the  concept  of ‘figured worlds’ as delineated by Dorothy Holland et al. (2001).

The  analysis  of  this  dissertation  explores  how  the  figured  world  of  classroom friendships  emerges  through  different  senses  and  intensities,  such  as fitting  in, clicking or clinging, bonding andhumoras well as daily rituals such as eating at the lunch  table.  Following  the  empirically  emergent  questions: Who  is  friends  with whom?; How  (not)  to  be  friends;  and  Why  are  they  (not)  friends?, this  dissertation illustrates  the  ways  in  which  young  people  negotiate  everyday  politics  of  race  and racism and the ways that adolescent friendships are discursively figured into matters of political concern over the issues of ‘immigrant integration’ and ‘social cohesion’. Putting friendship at the center of analysis, this dissertation approaches friendship as a performative boundary object through  which racialized boundaries of ‘us’ and ‘them’  are  negotiated,  disturbed  and  re-established.  Friendship  is  performative because through the knowledge of who is friends with whom, young people position each  other  across  hierarchical  minority-majority  positions.  This  dissertation  argues that  friendship  is  a  core  social  institution  through  which  processes  of  racialization are  (re)produced,  yet  simultaneously  a  vehicle  through  which  young  people  figure ways to challenge the racialized notions of ‘us’ and ‘them’. This dissertation engages with interdisciplinary debates in studies of racialization as unfolding  in  the  Nordic  European  countries  and  anthropological  studies  on friendship.  To  that  end,  it  challenges  notions  of  Danish-Nordic  exceptionalism  that figure  racism  as  a  matter  of  the  past,  as  well  as  nuances  notions  of  friendshipcommonly portrayed as a residual socialinstitution free from the power structures of racism.  A  core  contribution  of  this  thesis  is  to  offer  a  sense  and  affect-oriented analysis of friendship and racialization. The  research also articulates the  challenges that educational institutions face due to a lack of anti-racist education.

PDF: https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/files/306278121/PHD_Mante_Vertelyte_E_pdf.pdf. https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/files/306278121/PHD_Mante_Vertelyte_E_pdf.pdf.

Henriksen, Ann-Karina. ‘“I Was a Scarf-like Gangster Girl” – Negotiating Gender and Ethnicity on the Street’. (2017) [PDF]

Henriksen, Ann-Karina. ‘“I Was a Scarf-like Gangster Girl” – Negotiating Gender and Ethnicity on the Street’. Ethnicities, vol. 17, no. 4, Aug. 2017, pp. 491–508.

Drawing on an ethnographic study in Copenhagen, this article explores the gendered ethnicities of young women navigating multi-ethnic street terrains. The study includes an ethnically heterogeneous sample of 25 women aged 13–23 who are involved in street-oriented peer groups and activities. The analysis demonstrates how young women modify their lifestyle, language, body and posture to establish proximity to ethnic minority youth. By applying intersectional theory, the article explores gender and ethnicity as situational accomplishments, and it is argued that ethnic identifications in this context need to be explored as flexible and fluid, changing, not only over a lifetime, but within a single day. This exploration of young women’s gendered ethnicities adds to the limited research on the gendered and racialized dynamics of street culture.

doi:10.1177/1468796816666592.

PDF: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1468796816666592.

Hassani, Amani Riad Mohammed. ‘Muslim, Young and Urban – A Comparative Ethnography of Representation and Mobility among Young Adults Who Identify as Muslim in Copenhagen, Denmark and Montreal, Canada.’ (2018) [PDF]

Hassani, Amani Riad Mohammed. Muslim, Young and Urban – A Comparative Ethnography of Representation and Mobility among Young Adults Who Identify as Muslim in Copenhagen, Denmark and Montreal, Canada. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Dissertation. Concordia University, Apr. 2018.

This thesis explores the lives of young adults (18-25-year-old) who identify as Muslim in Copenhagen and Montreal. As a comparative ethnography, it sets out to examine the transatlantic similarities and differences among young people who grew up in an era where Muslims were often represented as a foreign object in need of integration, and at times as threatening. The thesis investigates processes of representation depicting young Muslims’ life histories, social positions and social identifications. Furthermore, it follows these young individuals’ movements through their cities and the spatial narratives they construct through these movements. I have sought to unravel the complexity of my interlocutors’ self-ascribed identifications of Muslim and Copenhagener/Montrealer – as well as the many other identifications they adopted – by furnishing their narratives with spatial representations; in many ways, these young people were shaped by and shaped the social spaces they inhabit. In so doing, the thesis seeks to counter the populist positioning of ‘the Muslim other’ by informing the broader themes entailed in the intersection between young adulthood, social mobility, spatial mobility, urban life and self- identification as a Muslim in a Western society. The ethnographic methods I employed in this study were threefold; I used participant observation to study my interlocutors’ social contexts, the cities they live in, and the public debates that permeate their city spaces. Semi-structured interviews were another important avenue for understanding how my interlocutors represented their lives, experiences and social positions. Finally, I used interlocutor-directed city tours to explore their movements in their localities. This last method was an essential instrument with which to situate and contextualize my interlocutors’ lives, experiences and navigations within their cities.

PDF: https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/984439/1/Hassani_PhD_F2018.pdf

Galal, Lise Paulsen, and Louise Lund Liebmann. Magt og (m)ulighed Forhandlinger af konformitet, autoritet og mobilitet blandt etniske minoritetsborgere i Danmark. (2020) [PDF]

Galal, Lise Paulsen, and Louise Lund Liebmann. Magt og (m)ulighed Forhandlinger af konformitet, autoritet og mobilitet blandt etniske minoritetsborgere i Danmark. Roskilde: Roskilde Universitet, 2020.

Forskningsprojektets fokus: Forskningsprojektet Magt og (m)ulighed har fokus på etniske minoritetsborgere og deres erfaring med og udlægning af begrænsninger i hverdagslivet. Særligt undersøges, hvordan begrænsninger hænger sammen med andres (og egne) forventninger til og forsøg på at tilvejebringe og kontrollere en særlig, normativ adfærd i minoritetsetniske miljøer. Hvor afsættet for projektet er at undersøge adfærd, der i Styrelsen for International Rekruttering og Integrations terminologi kaldes ’æresrelaterede konflikter og negativ social kontrol’, har forskningsprojektet valgt en undersøgende tilgang og et intersektionelt perspektiv med henblik på en bred og nuanceret forståelse af, hvad vi har valgt at kalde ’konformitetspres’. Ud over et hverdagsperspektiv er forsknings-projektets særlige fokusområder:

• Et ikke-institutionaliseret hverdagsperspektiv. I stedet for at fokusere på etniske minoritetsborgere, der i kraft af oplevelser med konflikt, kontrol og/eller vold har været i kontakt med myndigheder og hjælpe-indsatser, har vi talt med borgere, som ikke har modtaget en sådan assistance. På den måde inddrager vi ’almindelige’ hverdagserfaringer med og perspektiver på konformitetspres frem for at undersøge højspændte volds- og konfliktsituationer.

• Strategier og ressourcer. Frem for at have fokus på at måle omfang af et givent konformitetspres, undersøger vi, hvordan etniske minoritetsborgere forhandler, og hvilke strategier de trækker på, for at imødegå eller håndtere pres for at blive mere konforme.

•Tilskrivning af betydning til ære som begreb. Hvor æresrelaterede konflikter i myndighedssprog henviser til en specifik forståelse af ære knyttet (primært) til kvindens ærbarhed som betegnende for hele familiens ære, undersøger vi så åbent som muligt, hvordan etniske minoritetsborgere forstår og anvender ære som begreb, og hvordan de tillægger det betydning og relevans i deres eget, dagligt levede liv. Sammenfatning 8• Religions betydning for erfaringer med konformitetspres. Medborgerskabsundersøgelsen peger på, at unge med en religiøst praktiserende baggrund (og bosat i multikulturelle boligområder) i større grad rapporterer oplevelser med negativ social kontrol. Derfor undersøger vi, hvordan etniske minoritets-borgere anvender religion i forhandlinger af selvbestemmelse og lighed. Da flertallet af vores informanter har muslimsk tilhørsforhold, undersøger vi i praksis, hvordan de forhandler værdier og praksisser med islam. 

• Bosætningens betydning for erfaringer med konformitetspres. Medborgerskabsundersøgelsen viser også, at minoritetsetniske borgere – og særligt kvinder – oftere møder negativ social kontrol, hvis de er bosat i multikulturelle boligområder. Derfor undersøger vi, hvordan etniske minoritetsborgere anvender sted og mobilitet som ressource i forhandlinger af selvbestemmelse og lighed.

PDF: https://forskning.ruc.dk/files/67849011/RUC_MagtOg_M_ulighed_rapport_web.pdf.

Brade, Lovise. ‘“Just So You Know; I’m Absolutely Completely Normal!”—An Empirical Investigation of Firstness’. (2015)

Brade, Lovise. ‘“Just So You Know; I’m Absolutely Completely Normal!”—An Empirical Investigation of Firstness’. NORA: Nordic Journal of Women’s Studies, vol. 23, July 2015.

What is it like to be a white Danish male heterosexual engineer? What is it like to enjoy societal privileges without even noticing it? In a liberal egalitarian and consensus-seeking country like Denmark, theses questions are hard, if not impossible, to ask. We are very used to talking about and diagnosing “the Others” (in various forms) but what happens when the analytical gaze is turned towards the unproblematized majority – “the Firsts”? This article share insights from a fieldwork among a group of “perfectly normal” engineers in a large Danish consulting company and suggests firstness as an im/perceptible position depending largely on context and what kind of “Other” it relates to. The article also proposes ways to navigate when engaging methodologically and analytically with firstness.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08038740.2015.1045939

Ben-Zion, Sigalit. Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity: Adoption and Belonging in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. (2014)

Ben-Zion, Sigalit. Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity: Adoption and Belonging in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014.

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines.

doi:10.1057/9781137472823.

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137480644.

Andreassen, Rikke, and Lene Myong. ‘Race, Gender, and Reseacher Positionality Analysed through Memory Work’. (2017) [PDF]

Andreassen, Rikke, and Lene Myong. ‘Race, Gender, and Reseacher Positionality Analysed through Memory Work’. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 7, no. 2, June 2017, p. 97.

Drawing upon feminist standpoint theory and memory work, the authors analyse racial privilege by investigating their own racialized and gendered subjectifications as academic researchers. By looking at their own experiences within academia, they show how authority and agency are contingent upon racialization, and how research within gender, migration, and critical race studies is often met by rejection and threats of physical violence. The article illustrates how race is silenced within academia, and furthermore how questions of race, when pointed out, are often interpreted as a call for censorship. The authors conclude that a lack of reflection around the situatedness of knowledge, as well as the evasion of discussions on racial privilege, contribute to maintaining whiteness as a privileged site for scientific knowledge production.

doi:10.1515/njmr-2017-0011.

PDF: http://archive.sciendo.com/NJMR/njmr.2017.7.issue-2/njmr-2017-0011/njmr-2017-0011.pdf.

Agergaard, Sine, et al. ‘Politicisation of Migrant Leisure: A Public and Civil Intervention Involving Organised Sports’. (2016) [PDF]

Agergaard, Sine, et al. ‘Politicisation of Migrant Leisure: A Public and Civil Intervention Involving Organised Sports’. Leisure Studies, vol. 35, no. 2, Mar. 2016, pp. 200–214. Taylor and Francis+NEJM,

Using the perspective of governmentality this article aims to contribute to an understanding of the rationalities of specific political interventions, and the techniques used to monitor the leisure activities of particular target groups. This process of politicization is revealed here through a case study of an intervention that provides sporting activities in holiday periods for migrant children and adolescents living in so-called socially disadvantaged areas (DGI Playground). The analysis highlights the rationality that the leisure time of migrant youth is a potentially dangerous time slot and they must be engaged in organized sports; that is not only healthy but also civilizing and character forming leisure time activities. Techniques of monitoring the intervention are developed in a partnership between public institutions, regional umbrella organizations and local sports clubs leading to a need for employment of welfare professionals. Furthermore, the article illustrates that in the discursive construction of subject positions for the target group, migrant youth tend to become clients and recipients of public services rather than potential members of civil sports clubs. These findings are supported by ethnographic interviews with participants that show how youngsters who took part in DGI Playground were able to reflect the official aim of the programme and relate this to their desire to have fun and hang out with their friends. The article ends with a discussion of the further scope of applying critical theoretical perspectives to studies of migrants’ leisure and sports activities.

PDF: https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/files/112129858/Politicisation_of_migrant_leisure.pdf.

doi:10.1080/02614367.2015.1009848.