Nils Hammarén
Biographic Data
| ID | 285105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nils Hammarén |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nils |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammarén |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMARÉN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1115-7807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Schooling in a segregated city: A mixed-methods study of growing inequalities and compensating strategies in stigmatized schools
Applying a mixed-methods approach, the study examines the impact of residential and school segregation in Gothenburg, Sweden, highlighting the challenges in disadvantaged areas due to education marketization and school choice. Zooming in on the overall distribution of students’ school grades, family backgrounds, and school providers in the disadvantaged area, the article explores how these dynamics exacerbate inequalities, with public schools inc…
Migrant Youth, Schooling and Identity: Perspectives and Experiences from Northern Europe
Becoming a ‘youth at risk’: How professionals conceptualise risk among young people in disadvantaged urban areas in Sweden
In Sweden, the gap between prosperity and poverty has increased over the last three decades. As a result, groups of youth are forced to live a strictly limited life in segregation and poverty. Youth living in these circumstances are often viewed as being at risk. The purpose of this article is to investigate how different professional groups – specifically, police officers, social workers and school health teams – talk about and describe the risk…
Precarious Pro-school Positions: Boys and Schooling in a Stigmatized Urban Area
In recent decades, differences in school performance have increased considerably in Sweden, creating a growing number of students, especially boys in disadvantaged urban areas, who are ineligible for upper secondary school. A recurring explanation for boys’ poor school performance is an anti-school culture and boys’ lack of interest in school and learning. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, this study aims to scrutinize how boys attending a com…
Are bullying and reproduction of educational inequality the same thing? Towards a multifaceted understanding of school violence
Violence is considered a major concern in society, specifically regarding school. In this article, the concept of school violence is explored. Different categorisations and manifestations of violence are presented, and the dividing lines between them are discussed. The questions highlighted in the article include the following: How is school violence defined, and what are the taxonomies of school violence? How and in what ways is school violence …
Dangerous youngsters or youngsters (not) in danger? Constructions of unaccompanied children by Swedish service providers
This article discusses how a selection of service providers talk about unaccompanied minors as a specific group of children and how these constructions relate to the way in which the service providers articulate what they see as their prime work and obligations amid these children and youth. The interview data were collected as part of two separate follow-up studies conducted in two different parts of Sweden, where the municipal reception of unac…
The Absent Victim: Schools’ Assessment of the “Victimization Process”
The present study examines how a number of Swedish schools define and categorize students who have been exposed to different forms of violent or abusive acts in school. The study will shed light on how categorizations and forms of explanation used in the schools by professionals emerge from central institutional and professional discourses. The data are gathered from interviews with key officials and observations from school health team meetings.…
Youth ‘at risk’: A critical discourse analysis of the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network Collection of approaches and practices used in education
The present article focuses on how the so-called War on terror discourse has merged into the educational system and brought about a securitization of education. As a part of efforts to prevent young people from becoming radicalized into terrorism, the educational system is expected to be able to detect individuals ‘at risk’ and deploy methods to prevent radicalization from happening. Through the critical discourse analysis of a collection of educ…
Youth victimisation, school and family support: Schools’ strategies to handle abused children
This article explores and investigates school officials’ narratives about how schools involve and collaborate with families, social services, the police, and other agencies to support students who are suspected of being exposed to domestic violence. School officials’ describe their work as positioned within legal restrictions and official policies, and they express a strong wish to create good relationships with families and other authorities to …
The school as crime scene: Discourses on degrading treatment in Swedish schools
There is a strong case for stating that during the past decades there has been a shift in perspective when addressing questions of how to handle and preserve social order in Swedish schools. As an institution that has focused on social order and education since the 1990s, the Swedish school system has also become an institution that focuses on social order in terms of law and legal issues. The overall purpose of the article is to explore in which…
Identities at Stake: Young Adult Migrants and Strategies for Resisting Future Unemployment
Gaining employment in society is a critical stage in the lives of most young people, but statistics show that young migrants face greater barriers than do young people from the majority population. In the present article, I highlight how young adults of migrant background who live in Sweden handle and resist labour exclusion by focusing on how they try to improve their chances of getting a future occupation. The results show that the informants u…
Homosociality: In Between Power and Intimacy
The concept of homosociality describes and defines social bonds between persons of the same sex. It is, for example, frequently used in studies on men and masculinities, there defined as a mechanism and social dynamic that explains the maintenance of hegemonic masculinity. However, this common and somewhat overexploited use of the concept to refer to how men, through their relations to other men, uphold and maintain patriarchy tends to simplify a…
Young Migrants: Exclusion and Belonging in Europe
This collection is the first to examine the life experiences of young adult immigrants in Europe, as transmitted by the young adults themselves, and together with the analytical framework, seeks to un
Imagine, just 16 years old and already a dad!’ The construction of young fatherhood on the Internet
Studies exploring young fatherhood have mainly looked at low-income and unemployed young men. The literature is thus focused on fathering at the margins of society and mechanisms of exclusion. This discourse of young, marginal, excluded and often fragile fatherhood is also strongly connected to discourses on young parenthood in general. There is, for example, an ongoing and parallel discussion in many countries on young teen mothers and social ex…
The art of choosing the right tram: Schooling, segregation and youth culture
In this article, we study how young people with an immigrant background (first and second generation), which attend schools that can be considered more 'Swedish' experience the transition from a 'multicultural district' to the city centre. The empirical study was conducted in a large Swedish city, where the students attended two different programmes. In the analysis, we take a narrative approach, with student movements in time and space analysed …
Konsten att välja rätt spårvagn: En Studie Av Segregation, Skolval Och Unga Människors Studieplaner
The art of choosing the right tram – A study of urban segregation, choice of school and young people’s life plansWhen discussing barriers to integration and young people’s choice of school, research often focuses on language skills, cultural capital, supportive environments and other more obvious, distinct and material aspects that have an impact on educational achievement. In the present study, we have instead chosen to look at how young immigra…
Hegemonic Masculinity and Pornography: Young People's Attitudes toward and Relations to Pornography
This article explores young people's attitudes toward pornographic material. How do young people in general relate to and view pornography? Are there any clear gender differences? On the basis of empirical results from an extensive Swedish survey study, we discuss and analyze how gender differences are articulated. We are specifically interested in what kinds of attitudes young men and young women develop. A common conception of gender and the co…
Homosociality: In Between Power and Intimacy
The concept of homosociality describes and defines social bonds between persons of the same sex. It is, for example, frequently used in studies on men and masculinities, there defined as a mechanism and social dynamic that explains the maintenance of hegemonic masculinity. However, this common and somewhat overexploited use of the concept to refer to how men, through their relations to other men, uphold and maintain patriarchy tends to simplify a…
Hegemonic Masculinity and Pornography: Young People's Attitudes toward and Relations to Pornography
This article explores young people's attitudes toward pornographic material. How do young people in general relate to and view pornography? Are there any clear gender differences? On the basis of empirical results from an extensive Swedish survey study, we discuss and analyze how gender differences are articulated. We are specifically interested in what kinds of attitudes young men and young women develop. A common conception of gender and the co…
The art of choosing the right tram: Schooling, segregation and youth culture
In this article, we study how young people with an immigrant background (first and second generation), which attend schools that can be considered more 'Swedish' experience the transition from a 'multicultural district' to the city centre. The empirical study was conducted in a large Swedish city, where the students attended two different programmes. In the analysis, we take a narrative approach, with student movements in time and space analysed …
The school as crime scene: Discourses on degrading treatment in Swedish schools
There is a strong case for stating that during the past decades there has been a shift in perspective when addressing questions of how to handle and preserve social order in Swedish schools. As an institution that has focused on social order and education since the 1990s, the Swedish school system has also become an institution that focuses on social order in terms of law and legal issues. The overall purpose of the article is to explore in which…
The Absent Victim: Schools’ Assessment of the “Victimization Process”
The present study examines how a number of Swedish schools define and categorize students who have been exposed to different forms of violent or abusive acts in school. The study will shed light on how categorizations and forms of explanation used in the schools by professionals emerge from central institutional and professional discourses. The data are gathered from interviews with key officials and observations from school health team meetings.…
Youth ‘at risk’: A critical discourse analysis of the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network Collection of approaches and practices used in education
The present article focuses on how the so-called War on terror discourse has merged into the educational system and brought about a securitization of education. As a part of efforts to prevent young people from becoming radicalized into terrorism, the educational system is expected to be able to detect individuals ‘at risk’ and deploy methods to prevent radicalization from happening. Through the critical discourse analysis of a collection of educ…
Youth victimisation, school and family support: Schools’ strategies to handle abused children
This article explores and investigates school officials’ narratives about how schools involve and collaborate with families, social services, the police, and other agencies to support students who are suspected of being exposed to domestic violence. School officials’ describe their work as positioned within legal restrictions and official policies, and they express a strong wish to create good relationships with families and other authorities to …
Identities at Stake: Young Adult Migrants and Strategies for Resisting Future Unemployment
Gaining employment in society is a critical stage in the lives of most young people, but statistics show that young migrants face greater barriers than do young people from the majority population. In the present article, I highlight how young adults of migrant background who live in Sweden handle and resist labour exclusion by focusing on how they try to improve their chances of getting a future occupation. The results show that the informants u…
Are bullying and reproduction of educational inequality the same thing? Towards a multifaceted understanding of school violence
Violence is considered a major concern in society, specifically regarding school. In this article, the concept of school violence is explored. Different categorisations and manifestations of violence are presented, and the dividing lines between them are discussed. The questions highlighted in the article include the following: How is school violence defined, and what are the taxonomies of school violence? How and in what ways is school violence …
Dangerous youngsters or youngsters (not) in danger? Constructions of unaccompanied children by Swedish service providers
This article discusses how a selection of service providers talk about unaccompanied minors as a specific group of children and how these constructions relate to the way in which the service providers articulate what they see as their prime work and obligations amid these children and youth. The interview data were collected as part of two separate follow-up studies conducted in two different parts of Sweden, where the municipal reception of unac…
Konsten att välja rätt spårvagn: En Studie Av Segregation, Skolval Och Unga Människors Studieplaner
The art of choosing the right tram – A study of urban segregation, choice of school and young people’s life plansWhen discussing barriers to integration and young people’s choice of school, research often focuses on language skills, cultural capital, supportive environments and other more obvious, distinct and material aspects that have an impact on educational achievement. In the present study, we have instead chosen to look at how young immigra…
Hegemonic Masculinity and Pornography: Young People's Attitudes toward and Relations to Pornography
This article explores young people's attitudes toward pornographic material. How do young people in general relate to and view pornography? Are there any clear gender differences? On the basis of empirical results from an extensive Swedish survey study, we discuss and analyze how gender differences are articulated. We are specifically interested in what kinds of attitudes young men and young women develop. A common conception of gender and the co…
Konsten att välja rätt spårvagn: En Studie Av Segregation, Skolval Och Unga Människors Studieplaner
The art of choosing the right tram – A study of urban segregation, choice of school and young people’s life plansWhen discussing barriers to integration and young people’s choice of school, research often focuses on language skills, cultural capital, supportive environments and other more obvious, distinct and material aspects that have an impact on educational achievement. In the present study, we have instead chosen to look at how young immigra…
The art of choosing the right tram: Schooling, segregation and youth culture
In this article, we study how young people with an immigrant background (first and second generation), which attend schools that can be considered more 'Swedish' experience the transition from a 'multicultural district' to the city centre. The empirical study was conducted in a large Swedish city, where the students attended two different programmes. In the analysis, we take a narrative approach, with student movements in time and space analysed …
Young Migrants: Exclusion and Belonging in Europe
This collection is the first to examine the life experiences of young adult immigrants in Europe, as transmitted by the young adults themselves, and together with the analytical framework, seeks to un
Imagine, just 16 years old and already a dad!’ The construction of young fatherhood on the Internet
Studies exploring young fatherhood have mainly looked at low-income and unemployed young men. The literature is thus focused on fathering at the margins of society and mechanisms of exclusion. This discourse of young, marginal, excluded and often fragile fatherhood is also strongly connected to discourses on young parenthood in general. There is, for example, an ongoing and parallel discussion in many countries on young teen mothers and social ex…
Identities at Stake: Young Adult Migrants and Strategies for Resisting Future Unemployment
Gaining employment in society is a critical stage in the lives of most young people, but statistics show that young migrants face greater barriers than do young people from the majority population. In the present article, I highlight how young adults of migrant background who live in Sweden handle and resist labour exclusion by focusing on how they try to improve their chances of getting a future occupation. The results show that the informants u…
Homosociality: In Between Power and Intimacy
The concept of homosociality describes and defines social bonds between persons of the same sex. It is, for example, frequently used in studies on men and masculinities, there defined as a mechanism and social dynamic that explains the maintenance of hegemonic masculinity. However, this common and somewhat overexploited use of the concept to refer to how men, through their relations to other men, uphold and maintain patriarchy tends to simplify a…
Youth victimisation, school and family support: Schools’ strategies to handle abused children
This article explores and investigates school officials’ narratives about how schools involve and collaborate with families, social services, the police, and other agencies to support students who are suspected of being exposed to domestic violence. School officials’ describe their work as positioned within legal restrictions and official policies, and they express a strong wish to create good relationships with families and other authorities to …
The school as crime scene: Discourses on degrading treatment in Swedish schools
There is a strong case for stating that during the past decades there has been a shift in perspective when addressing questions of how to handle and preserve social order in Swedish schools. As an institution that has focused on social order and education since the 1990s, the Swedish school system has also become an institution that focuses on social order in terms of law and legal issues. The overall purpose of the article is to explore in which…
Youth ‘at risk’: A critical discourse analysis of the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network Collection of approaches and practices used in education
The present article focuses on how the so-called War on terror discourse has merged into the educational system and brought about a securitization of education. As a part of efforts to prevent young people from becoming radicalized into terrorism, the educational system is expected to be able to detect individuals ‘at risk’ and deploy methods to prevent radicalization from happening. Through the critical discourse analysis of a collection of educ…
The Absent Victim: Schools’ Assessment of the “Victimization Process”
The present study examines how a number of Swedish schools define and categorize students who have been exposed to different forms of violent or abusive acts in school. The study will shed light on how categorizations and forms of explanation used in the schools by professionals emerge from central institutional and professional discourses. The data are gathered from interviews with key officials and observations from school health team meetings.…
Are bullying and reproduction of educational inequality the same thing? Towards a multifaceted understanding of school violence
Violence is considered a major concern in society, specifically regarding school. In this article, the concept of school violence is explored. Different categorisations and manifestations of violence are presented, and the dividing lines between them are discussed. The questions highlighted in the article include the following: How is school violence defined, and what are the taxonomies of school violence? How and in what ways is school violence …
Dangerous youngsters or youngsters (not) in danger? Constructions of unaccompanied children by Swedish service providers
This article discusses how a selection of service providers talk about unaccompanied minors as a specific group of children and how these constructions relate to the way in which the service providers articulate what they see as their prime work and obligations amid these children and youth. The interview data were collected as part of two separate follow-up studies conducted in two different parts of Sweden, where the municipal reception of unac…
Becoming a ‘youth at risk’: How professionals conceptualise risk among young people in disadvantaged urban areas in Sweden
In Sweden, the gap between prosperity and poverty has increased over the last three decades. As a result, groups of youth are forced to live a strictly limited life in segregation and poverty. Youth living in these circumstances are often viewed as being at risk. The purpose of this article is to investigate how different professional groups – specifically, police officers, social workers and school health teams – talk about and describe the risk…
Precarious Pro-school Positions: Boys and Schooling in a Stigmatized Urban Area
In recent decades, differences in school performance have increased considerably in Sweden, creating a growing number of students, especially boys in disadvantaged urban areas, who are ineligible for upper secondary school. A recurring explanation for boys’ poor school performance is an anti-school culture and boys’ lack of interest in school and learning. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, this study aims to scrutinize how boys attending a com…
Migrant Youth, Schooling and Identity: Perspectives and Experiences from Northern Europe
Schooling in a segregated city: A mixed-methods study of growing inequalities and compensating strategies in stigmatized schools
Applying a mixed-methods approach, the study examines the impact of residential and school segregation in Gothenburg, Sweden, highlighting the challenges in disadvantaged areas due to education marketization and school choice. Zooming in on the overall distribution of students’ school grades, family backgrounds, and school providers in the disadvantaged area, the article explores how these dynamics exacerbate inequalities, with public schools inc…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (6 works)