The Promise of Belonging : Racialized Youth Subject Positions in the Swedish Rural North
This article analyses how youth subject positions of the ‘racialized other’ are produced, and how these positions interconnect with the concept of belonging to the rural community. We do this by analysing 15 group discussions with 63 young people living in rural areas in northern Sweden taking a dis...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-197433 2023-10-09T21:54:32+02:00 The Promise of Belonging : Racialized Youth Subject Positions in the Swedish Rural North Goicolea, Isabel Gotfredsen, Anne Jonsson, Frida Wernesjö, Ulrika 2023 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-197433 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-022-00973-y eng eng Umeå universitet, Institutionen för epidemiologi och global hälsa Umeå universitet, Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS) Umeå universitet, Arktiskt centrum vid Umeå universitet (Arcum) Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden Journal of International Migration and Integration, 1488-3473, 2023, 24, s. 695-713 orcid:0000-0002-8114-4705 orcid:0000-0002-5011-2233 orcid:0000-0002-5902-3798 orcid:0000-0003-3384-7518 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-197433 doi:10.1007/s12134-022-00973-y ISI:000810804700001 Scopus 2-s2.0-85131796904 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Subject positions Politics of belonging ‘Othering’ Racialization Rural Public Health Global Health Social Medicine and Epidemiology Folkhälsovetenskap global hälsa socialmedicin och epidemiologi Social Psychology Socialpsykologi Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2023 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-022-00973-y 2023-09-22T14:00:39Z This article analyses how youth subject positions of the ‘racialized other’ are produced, and how these positions interconnect with the concept of belonging to the rural community. We do this by analysing 15 group discussions with 63 young people living in rural areas in northern Sweden taking a discursive psychology approach, and focusing on how discourses produce certain subject positions of ‘the racialized other’. Drawing on the concepts of the politics of belonging and the ‘stranger’, we argue that discourses on belonging to the (rural) community create boundaries that exclude ‘other’ youth, as well as resistance and contestation. The subject positions that such discourses produce represent racialized youth in stereotypical ways and imply a promise of belonging for certain ‘others’ based on their fulfilment of particular norms. However, such a depoliticized promise of belonging that places the responsibility for becoming integrated on the ‘others’ was also challenged. Firstly, in relation to criticisms of the welfare system, and secondly, in relation to racism as an unwelcome threat in rural communities. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) Journal of International Migration and Integration |
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Subject positions Politics of belonging ‘Othering’ Racialization Rural Public Health Global Health Social Medicine and Epidemiology Folkhälsovetenskap global hälsa socialmedicin och epidemiologi Social Psychology Socialpsykologi Goicolea, Isabel Gotfredsen, Anne Jonsson, Frida Wernesjö, Ulrika The Promise of Belonging : Racialized Youth Subject Positions in the Swedish Rural North |
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This article analyses how youth subject positions of the ‘racialized other’ are produced, and how these positions interconnect with the concept of belonging to the rural community. We do this by analysing 15 group discussions with 63 young people living in rural areas in northern Sweden taking a discursive psychology approach, and focusing on how discourses produce certain subject positions of ‘the racialized other’. Drawing on the concepts of the politics of belonging and the ‘stranger’, we argue that discourses on belonging to the (rural) community create boundaries that exclude ‘other’ youth, as well as resistance and contestation. The subject positions that such discourses produce represent racialized youth in stereotypical ways and imply a promise of belonging for certain ‘others’ based on their fulfilment of particular norms. However, such a depoliticized promise of belonging that places the responsibility for becoming integrated on the ‘others’ was also challenged. Firstly, in relation to criticisms of the welfare system, and secondly, in relation to racism as an unwelcome threat in rural communities. |
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Goicolea, Isabel Gotfredsen, Anne Jonsson, Frida Wernesjö, Ulrika |
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The Promise of Belonging : Racialized Youth Subject Positions in the Swedish Rural North |
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The Promise of Belonging : Racialized Youth Subject Positions in the Swedish Rural North |
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The Promise of Belonging : Racialized Youth Subject Positions in the Swedish Rural North |
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Umeå universitet, Institutionen för epidemiologi och global hälsa |
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