Forced Removal of National Minority Children in the Swedish and Finnish Arctic through Schooling
Whilst the colonial practices of child removal outside of Europe are (in-)famous, similar practices within Europe have received less critical attention. This paper examines novels and short stories set in Sweden, Finland, and the border area known as the Torne Valley. It analyses the literary portra...
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credinunivpr:10.3366/ircl.2020.0359 2024-05-19T07:34:57+00:00 Forced Removal of National Minority Children in the Swedish and Finnish Arctic through Schooling Palo, Annbritt Kokkola, Lydia Manderstedt, Lena 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2020.0359 https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full-xml/10.3366/ircl.2020.0359 en eng Edinburgh University Press http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ International Research in Children's Literature volume 13, issue 2, page 289-305 ISSN 1755-6198 1755-6201 journal-article 2020 credinunivpr https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2020.0359 2024-04-25T06:52:52Z Whilst the colonial practices of child removal outside of Europe are (in-)famous, similar practices within Europe have received less critical attention. This paper examines novels and short stories set in Sweden, Finland, and the border area known as the Torne Valley. It analyses the literary portrayal of the forced removals of children, almost exclusively from the Sámi- and the Finnish/Meänkieli-speaking minorities, into workhouses or boarding schools in the Arctic regions of Sweden and Finland in the twentieth century. These stories are set against the historical background; our focus is on modalities of the trauma experienced. The discussion reveals recurring themes regarding the direct and indirect violence experienced by children, and highlights the inadequacies in the theorisation of coloniser-colonised situations developed in other contexts for describing European Arctic literature. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic meänkieli Edinburgh University Press International Research in Children's Literature 13 2 289 305 |
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Whilst the colonial practices of child removal outside of Europe are (in-)famous, similar practices within Europe have received less critical attention. This paper examines novels and short stories set in Sweden, Finland, and the border area known as the Torne Valley. It analyses the literary portrayal of the forced removals of children, almost exclusively from the Sámi- and the Finnish/Meänkieli-speaking minorities, into workhouses or boarding schools in the Arctic regions of Sweden and Finland in the twentieth century. These stories are set against the historical background; our focus is on modalities of the trauma experienced. The discussion reveals recurring themes regarding the direct and indirect violence experienced by children, and highlights the inadequacies in the theorisation of coloniser-colonised situations developed in other contexts for describing European Arctic literature. |
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Forced Removal of National Minority Children in the Swedish and Finnish Arctic through Schooling |
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Forced Removal of National Minority Children in the Swedish and Finnish Arctic through Schooling |
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Forced Removal of National Minority Children in the Swedish and Finnish Arctic through Schooling |
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Forced Removal of National Minority Children in the Swedish and Finnish Arctic through Schooling |
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Forced Removal of National Minority Children in the Swedish and Finnish Arctic through Schooling |
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forced removal of national minority children in the swedish and finnish arctic through schooling |
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