Social work researchers Marcus Herz and Philip Lalander have written the most comprehensive and extensive work on the everyday life experiences of unaccompanied minors and youth in Sweden so far. Through focusing on the ordinary day-to-day experiences of their young participants, the authors challenge the dehumanization that the label of ‘unaccompanied minors’ produces and instead highlight this diversity in how young people caught in this categorization experience their life in Sweden. In their book, Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening: Becoming an Unaccompanied Child , they cover the time period shortly before, during, and a few years after ‘the long summer of migration’ when more than 35,000 (in 2015 only) unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in Sweden. As such, it is a major contribution to migration research in the way it captures this significant time period through the eyes of those who were at the center of attention at the time: unaccompanied minors themselves. Through listening closely and attentively to the 20 participating youth’s own narratives, Herz and Lalander manage to provide engaging and thoughtful insight into their experiences. The authors are thus firmly rooted in a tradition of critical social work that focuses on the lived experiences of subaltern groups and how society can be improved by listening to these groups’ experiences. In their book, Herz and Lalander bring together findings from their research about unaccompanied minors and youth in Sweden that have previously been published in several academic articles as well as in a Swedish monography called Rörelser, gränser och liv (Herz and Lalander 2019). Throughout the empirical chapters, Herz and Lalander cover an impressive range of experiences and themes that make the everyday lives of unaccompanied minors accessible to a broader audience. As they engage in dialogue with their participants, the authors explore their everyday experiences, worries, and dreams. The chapters initially follow a straightforward chronology, starting with young people’s first encounters with Sweden and how the Swedish ‘borderland’ unfolds before them over the coming years.
社会工作研究人员马库斯·赫兹和菲利普·拉兰德撰写了迄今为止瑞典无人陪伴的未成年人和青少年日常生活经历方面最全面、最广泛的工作。通过关注年轻参与者的日常经历，作者挑战了“无人陪伴的未成年人”标签所产生的非人性化，而是强调了被这种分类的年轻人如何体验他们在瑞典生活的多样性。在他们的书《社会工作、年轻移民和倾听的行为:成为一个无人陪伴的孩子》中，他们涵盖了“漫长的移民之夏”之前、期间和之后的几年，当时有超过3.5万(仅2015年)无人陪伴的未成年人在瑞典申请庇护。因此，它对移民研究做出了重大贡献，因为它通过那些当时处于关注中心的人的眼睛捕捉了这一重要时期:无人陪伴的未成年人自己。赫兹和拉兰德仔细倾听了20位参与其中的年轻人自己的故事，为他们的经历提供了引人入胜、深思熟虑的见解。因此，作者坚定地植根于批判性社会工作的传统，即关注底层群体的生活经历，以及如何通过倾听这些群体的经历来改善社会。Herz和Lalander在他们的书中汇集了他们对瑞典无人陪伴的未成年人和青少年的研究结果，这些研究结果此前已发表在几篇学术文章以及瑞典专著Rörelser, gränser och liv (Herz and Lalander 2019)中。在整个实证章节中，赫兹和拉兰德涵盖了一系列令人印象深刻的经历和主题，使更多的读者能够接触到无人陪伴的未成年人的日常生活。当他们与参与者进行对话时，作者探索了他们的日常经历、担忧和梦想。这些章节最初遵循一个简单的时间顺序，从年轻人第一次遇到瑞典开始，以及瑞典的“边境”在未来几年如何在他们面前展开。
{"title":"Book review of Herz, Marcus and Lalander, Philip 2021. Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening: Becoming an Unaccompanied Child. London: Routledge. 177 pp","authors":"Jacob Lind","doi":"10.33134/njmr.708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.708","url":null,"abstract":"Social work researchers Marcus Herz and Philip Lalander have written the most comprehensive and extensive work on the everyday life experiences of unaccompanied minors and youth in Sweden so far. Through focusing on the ordinary day-to-day experiences of their young participants, the authors challenge the dehumanization that the label of ‘unaccompanied minors’ produces and instead highlight this diversity in how young people caught in this categorization experience their life in Sweden. In their book, Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening: Becoming an Unaccompanied Child , they cover the time period shortly before, during, and a few years after ‘the long summer of migration’ when more than 35,000 (in 2015 only) unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in Sweden. As such, it is a major contribution to migration research in the way it captures this significant time period through the eyes of those who were at the center of attention at the time: unaccompanied minors themselves. Through listening closely and attentively to the 20 participating youth’s own narratives, Herz and Lalander manage to provide engaging and thoughtful insight into their experiences. The authors are thus firmly rooted in a tradition of critical social work that focuses on the lived experiences of subaltern groups and how society can be improved by listening to these groups’ experiences. In their book, Herz and Lalander bring together findings from their research about unaccompanied minors and youth in Sweden that have previously been published in several academic articles as well as in a Swedish monography called Rörelser, gränser och liv (Herz and Lalander 2019). Throughout the empirical chapters, Herz and Lalander cover an impressive range of experiences and themes that make the everyday lives of unaccompanied minors accessible to a broader audience. As they engage in dialogue with their participants, the authors explore their everyday experiences, worries, and dreams. The chapters initially follow a straightforward chronology, starting with young people’s first encounters with Sweden and how the Swedish ‘borderland’ unfolds before them over the coming years.","PeriodicalId":45097,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Migration Research","volume":"9 24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69505400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines institutional encounters in the light of trust in the contemporary welfare state context of Finland from the perspectives of young forced migrants. Young persons with a forced migration background constitute a growing group in Nordic welfare societies, and institutional encounters are an essential part of their everyday life. Still, little is known about how trust is shaped and experienced in this context. Drawing on 12 interviews with young forced migrants, I examine how trust and distrust is shaped in the series of institutional encounters. In my analysis, I identify two dimensions of facework interactions affecting trust: the administrative and emotional dimension. Thus, the study contributes to a deeper understanding of how the dynamic, multifaceted, contextualized concept of trust is shaped in the series of institutional encounters migrants face as part of migration governance.
{"title":"Trust Shaping in Forced Migrants’ Institutional Encounters in the Finnish Welfare State","authors":"Liselott Sundbäck","doi":"10.33134/njmr.532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.532","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines institutional encounters in the light of trust in the contemporary welfare state context of Finland from the perspectives of young forced migrants. Young persons with a forced migration background constitute a growing group in Nordic welfare societies, and institutional encounters are an essential part of their everyday life. Still, little is known about how trust is shaped and experienced in this context. Drawing on 12 interviews with young forced migrants, I examine how trust and distrust is shaped in the series of institutional encounters. In my analysis, I identify two dimensions of facework interactions affecting trust: the administrative and emotional dimension. Thus, the study contributes to a deeper understanding of how the dynamic, multifaceted, contextualized concept of trust is shaped in the series of institutional encounters migrants face as part of migration governance.","PeriodicalId":45097,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Migration Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69505510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Sense of Belonging: Translocal Subjectivity and Rootedness of Turkish-Born Women in Sweden","authors":"M. Tunçer","doi":"10.33134/njmr.535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.535","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45097,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Migration Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69505562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colour blindness is a concept that is established in the US context, and it has gained increased attention among European scholars. Yet we find less studies in the European context that measure colour-blind attitudes and show its prevalence among different groups. Therefore, this paper examines the prevalence of colour-blind attitudes among Swedish welfare professionals’ and how these attitudes are associated with anti-immigration attitudes but also social desirability. To this end, survey data is examined with a regression analysis. Welfare professionals who report greater levels of colour-blind attitudes are simultaneously more likely to report greater levels of anti-immigration attitudes. This paper thereby tests how colour-blind attitudes, a concept from the US context, can be applied to a Swedish welfare institutional context and finds convergent results.
{"title":"Colour-Blind Attitudes among Welfare Professionals: Examining the Relationship Between Colour-Blind Attitudes, Anti-immigration Attitudes and Social Desirability","authors":"Carolin Schütze","doi":"10.33134/njmr.611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.611","url":null,"abstract":"Colour blindness is a concept that is established in the US context, and it has gained increased attention among European scholars. Yet we find less studies in the European context that measure colour-blind attitudes and show its prevalence among different groups. Therefore, this paper examines the prevalence of colour-blind attitudes among Swedish welfare professionals’ and how these attitudes are associated with anti-immigration attitudes but also social desirability. To this end, survey data is examined with a regression analysis. Welfare professionals who report greater levels of colour-blind attitudes are simultaneously more likely to report greater levels of anti-immigration attitudes. This paper thereby tests how colour-blind attitudes, a concept from the US context, can be applied to a Swedish welfare institutional context and finds convergent results.","PeriodicalId":45097,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Migration Research","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69505785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review of Humpál, Martin and Březinová, Helena (Eds.) 2022. Migration and Identity in Nordic Literature. Prague: Karolinum Press, 160 pp","authors":"Jelena Vićentić","doi":"10.33134/njmr.736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.736","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45097,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Migration Research","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135799007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gray Racialization of White Immigrants: The Polish Worker in Norway","authors":"M. Andersson, Johan Fredrik Rye","doi":"10.33134/njmr.475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.475","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45097,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Migration Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69504485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Markus Byström, Ina Wood, C. Bernhard‐Oettel, S. Hau
{"title":"Narrated Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minority Refugees: Resilience in the Context of Hardship from Pre- to Post-Migration","authors":"Markus Byström, Ina Wood, C. Bernhard‐Oettel, S. Hau","doi":"10.33134/njmr.364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.364","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45097,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Migration Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69504412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines an issue that highlights intimate connections between minority and migration politics, namely politics of religious accommodation. It does so through analyzing a conflict between the Copenhagen municipality and a Jewish kindergarten that resulted in an enforced privatization. Conceptualizing it as a part of wider struggles over recognition (broadly conceived) of migration-pertaining difference in Denmark, I analyze the case through Nancy Fraser's (2009) theory of justice as comprised of singular but inter-related arenas of (cultural) recognition, (institutional-political) representation and (economic) redistribution, bound together by a norm of participatory parity. I argue that while the negotiation was characterized by instances of both misrepresentation and misrecognition, the municipality's preference for the institution's privatization reflects not only a return to the traditional preference for the privatization of difference, but also the centrality of the redistributive arena of justice in Denmark. If the latter tends to be in welfare contexts understood by the majority as always already expressing recognition, from a minority perspective the state's embrace of such a recognition-through-redistribution approach can entail an injury of lacking or erroneous recognition . Whether the minority will perceive a single case as such an injury depends on the broader tenor of politics of minority and immigrant difference at the time.
{"title":"Re-Privatizing Minority Difference: Representation, Recognition, and Redistribution in the Municipal Politics of Religious Accommodation in Denmark","authors":"Tatiana Fogelman","doi":"10.33134/njmr.502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.502","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines an issue that highlights intimate connections between minority and migration politics, namely politics of religious accommodation. It does so through analyzing a conflict between the Copenhagen municipality and a Jewish kindergarten that resulted in an enforced privatization. Conceptualizing it as a part of wider struggles over recognition (broadly conceived) of migration-pertaining difference in Denmark, I analyze the case through Nancy Fraser's (2009) theory of justice as comprised of singular but inter-related arenas of (cultural) recognition, (institutional-political) representation and (economic) redistribution, bound together by a norm of participatory parity. I argue that while the negotiation was characterized by instances of both misrepresentation and misrecognition, the municipality's preference for the institution's privatization reflects not only a return to the traditional preference for the privatization of difference, but also the centrality of the redistributive arena of justice in Denmark. If the latter tends to be in welfare contexts understood by the majority as always already expressing recognition, from a minority perspective the state's embrace of such a recognition-through-redistribution approach can entail an injury of lacking or erroneous recognition . Whether the minority will perceive a single case as such an injury depends on the broader tenor of politics of minority and immigrant difference at the time.","PeriodicalId":45097,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Migration Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69504855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review of Favell, Adrian 2022. The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies. Cambridge: Polity Press, 226 pp","authors":"Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag","doi":"10.33134/njmr.722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.722","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45097,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Migration Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69505457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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