Forced removal of national minority children in the Swedish and Finnish Arctic through schooling
Abstract 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 litera...
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ftunivoulu:oai:oulu.fi:nbnfi-fe2020112693296 2023-07-30T04:00:36+02:00 Forced removal of national minority children in the Swedish and Finnish Arctic through schooling Palo, A. (Annbritt) Kokkola, L. (Lydia) Manderstedt, L. (Lena) 2020 application/pdf http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2020112693296 eng eng Edinburgh University Press info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © International Research Society for Children’s Literature. Swedish and Finnish Arctic boarding schools direct and indirect violence schooling of Sámi- and Finnish-speaking minorities workhouses info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 2020 ftunivoulu 2023-07-08T19:59:57Z Abstract 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 Jultika - University of Oulu repository Arctic |
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Swedish and Finnish Arctic boarding schools direct and indirect violence schooling of Sámi- and Finnish-speaking minorities workhouses Palo, A. (Annbritt) Kokkola, L. (Lydia) Manderstedt, L. (Lena) Forced removal of national minority children in the Swedish and Finnish Arctic through schooling |
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Abstract 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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Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Palo, A. (Annbritt) Kokkola, L. (Lydia) Manderstedt, L. (Lena) |
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Palo, A. (Annbritt) Kokkola, L. (Lydia) Manderstedt, L. (Lena) |
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Palo, A. (Annbritt) |
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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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Edinburgh University Press |
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2020 |
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