Layal Kasselias Wiltgren
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Layal Kasselias Wiltgren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Layal Kasselias |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiltgren |
| SIGNATURE | WILTGREN L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7403-720X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Negotiating a safe changing process
A scoping review of students’ changing room experiences in the context of physical education
The global reach of colorblind racism in education
So incredibly equal’
This article focuses on the discrepancy between school staffs’ views of a permissive, inclusive classroom climate, and high-performing minority students’ stories of social exclusion. The students are seemingly well-integrated into the Swedish school system, they have good grades, high ambitions, and attend a prestigious school. However, students with migration backgrounds describe recurring experiences of polite exclusion in the form of subtle, o…
Polite exclusion
Integration problems are often explained in terms of segregation. Students with immigrant backgrounds are frequently associated with so-called ethnically segregated residential areas and stigmatized, low-performing, suburban schools. In contrast, this study investigates high-performing students attending a well-reputed school. While formally valued and included, they are subtly socially excluded by their peers. This exclusion is expressed in a su…
Doing ethnicity
The article illustrates ethnicity as a social construction by highlighting how students use ethnically based concepts to categorize each other as well as the Other. Although the concepts have ethnic connotations, they are mainly concerned with matters of style and behaviour. They are therefore open, fluid and inclusive because the students can alternate between the categories. The analyses draw on 1 year of fieldwork in two eighth grade classes i…
Youth using national symbols in constructing identities
Artefacts containing national or ethnic symbols, such as flags and maps, are frequently used by 14-year-old youth in a multiethnic, suburban municipality in Stockholm. Appearing as ornaments or trinkets to outsiders, to the initiated they are distinctive group markers displaying multiple political and ideological affiliations. As visual symbols these artefacts invoke communicative, but non-verbal, processes: they interpellate viewers who answer w…
Doing ethnicity
The article illustrates ethnicity as a social construction by highlighting how students use ethnically based concepts to categorize each other as well as the Other. Although the concepts have ethnic connotations, they are mainly concerned with matters of style and behaviour. They are therefore open, fluid and inclusive because the students can alternate between the categories. The analyses draw on 1 year of fieldwork in two eighth grade classes i…
Youth using national symbols in constructing identities
Artefacts containing national or ethnic symbols, such as flags and maps, are frequently used by 14-year-old youth in a multiethnic, suburban municipality in Stockholm. Appearing as ornaments or trinkets to outsiders, to the initiated they are distinctive group markers displaying multiple political and ideological affiliations. As visual symbols these artefacts invoke communicative, but non-verbal, processes: they interpellate viewers who answer w…
So incredibly equal’
This article focuses on the discrepancy between school staffs’ views of a permissive, inclusive classroom climate, and high-performing minority students’ stories of social exclusion. The students are seemingly well-integrated into the Swedish school system, they have good grades, high ambitions, and attend a prestigious school. However, students with migration backgrounds describe recurring experiences of polite exclusion in the form of subtle, o…
Polite exclusion
Integration problems are often explained in terms of segregation. Students with immigrant backgrounds are frequently associated with so-called ethnically segregated residential areas and stigmatized, low-performing, suburban schools. In contrast, this study investigates high-performing students attending a well-reputed school. While formally valued and included, they are subtly socially excluded by their peers. This exclusion is expressed in a su…
Youth using national symbols in constructing identities
Artefacts containing national or ethnic symbols, such as flags and maps, are frequently used by 14-year-old youth in a multiethnic, suburban municipality in Stockholm. Appearing as ornaments or trinkets to outsiders, to the initiated they are distinctive group markers displaying multiple political and ideological affiliations. As visual symbols these artefacts invoke communicative, but non-verbal, processes: they interpellate viewers who answer w…
Doing ethnicity
The article illustrates ethnicity as a social construction by highlighting how students use ethnically based concepts to categorize each other as well as the Other. Although the concepts have ethnic connotations, they are mainly concerned with matters of style and behaviour. They are therefore open, fluid and inclusive because the students can alternate between the categories. The analyses draw on 1 year of fieldwork in two eighth grade classes i…
Polite exclusion
Integration problems are often explained in terms of segregation. Students with immigrant backgrounds are frequently associated with so-called ethnically segregated residential areas and stigmatized, low-performing, suburban schools. In contrast, this study investigates high-performing students attending a well-reputed school. While formally valued and included, they are subtly socially excluded by their peers. This exclusion is expressed in a su…
So incredibly equal’
This article focuses on the discrepancy between school staffs’ views of a permissive, inclusive classroom climate, and high-performing minority students’ stories of social exclusion. The students are seemingly well-integrated into the Swedish school system, they have good grades, high ambitions, and attend a prestigious school. However, students with migration backgrounds describe recurring experiences of polite exclusion in the form of subtle, o…
The global reach of colorblind racism in education
Negotiating a safe changing process
A scoping review of students’ changing room experiences in the context of physical education
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Educational Environments and Student Outcomes (2 works)