A Runfors
Biographic Data
| ID | 48301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Runfors |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Runfors |
| SIGNATURE | RUNFORS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Södertörn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6482-9182 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Utbildning, målmedvetenhet och vithet: Görande av klass bland kvinnor och män med polska föräldrar
Based on an analysis of interviews with women and men who grew up in Sweden with one or two Polish parents this article argues that ethnologists can and should contribute to the research on class by using constructivist theory and illuminating processes in which class is done. Leaning on Beverly Skeggs poststructuralist writing on class it analyses how the interviewees make class with help of the capital they possessed and in relation to class as…
The Political as the Personal: Postmemory among Descendants of Polish Migrants in Sweden
This article analyses interviews with descendants of Polish migrants in Sweden using the lens of postmemory. The aim is to show how they narrated growing up with parents and grandparents who recalled traumatic experiences of the occupation of Poland during World War II and of the communist era, and to explore the transgenerational imprints of this recall. A number of less-explored aspects of postmemory are elucidated: postmemory related to less e…
Challenging the hierarchies of Swedish whiteness: Negative experiences and undesired effects of passing as white and Swedish
This article focuses on the hierarchies inherent in the Swedish version of whiteness and shows how these hierarchical structures are challenged by subjects placed within the category white. Passing as white is often presumed to be something sought after. The aim of this article is however to empirically explore the other side of the coin, that is, negative experiences and undesired effects of passing as white. With theoretical inspiration drawn f…
Welfare Deservingness for Migrants: Does the Welfare State Model Matter
This article draws on the idea that welfare systems and institutions are based on normative assumptions about justice, solidarity, and responsibility. Even though the literature on welfare deservingness has highlighted the connection between ideas of solidarity and the support to, for instance, people with different ethnic backgrounds, there is very little research on the interconnections of different welfare state models and ideas on how migrati…
Policy Experts Negotiating Popular Fantasies of 'Benefit Tourism' Policy Discourses on Deservingness and Their Relation to Welfare Chauvinism
Welfare provision as a border control strategy is often discussed in relation to irregular migrants and refugees. However, this article focuses on EU migrants. Using discourse theory, it explores interviews with policy experts from four migrant-receiving EU countries. The aim is to identify policy discourses on deservingness articulated in relation to intra-EU migrants from four member states in Eastern Europe, to detect mechanisms that generate …
Navigating the Radar: Descendants of Polish Migrants and Racialized Social Landscapes in Sweden
This article takes interest in descendants of white migrants in Sweden and their experiences of racialization. Although research on descendants in this category is rare, they are sometimes assumed to be unproblematically integrated into Swedish whiteness. The article contributes with an empirically based investigation of the subject by analysing in-depth interviews with an up till now almost non-researched group: people who grew up with Polish pa…
Lära sig bli invandrare: Globala och transnationella mönster i nationella former
In this article I discuss what categorisation does to people. More precisely, I discuss the Swedish concept of invandrare/invandrarbarn — immigrants/immigrant children. A highly heterogeneous group of people are often grouped together and categorised as immigrants/immigrant children. While they may not have much in common in terms of culture, they are categorised, described and treated as immigrants/immigrant children by Swedish society. Do these…
Diskurs och erfarenhet: En kommentar
Navigating the Radar: Descendants of Polish Migrants and Racialized Social Landscapes in Sweden
This article takes interest in descendants of white migrants in Sweden and their experiences of racialization. Although research on descendants in this category is rare, they are sometimes assumed to be unproblematically integrated into Swedish whiteness. The article contributes with an empirically based investigation of the subject by analysing in-depth interviews with an up till now almost non-researched group: people who grew up with Polish pa…
Welfare Deservingness for Migrants: Does the Welfare State Model Matter
This article draws on the idea that welfare systems and institutions are based on normative assumptions about justice, solidarity, and responsibility. Even though the literature on welfare deservingness has highlighted the connection between ideas of solidarity and the support to, for instance, people with different ethnic backgrounds, there is very little research on the interconnections of different welfare state models and ideas on how migrati…
Policy Experts Negotiating Popular Fantasies of 'Benefit Tourism' Policy Discourses on Deservingness and Their Relation to Welfare Chauvinism
Welfare provision as a border control strategy is often discussed in relation to irregular migrants and refugees. However, this article focuses on EU migrants. Using discourse theory, it explores interviews with policy experts from four migrant-receiving EU countries. The aim is to identify policy discourses on deservingness articulated in relation to intra-EU migrants from four member states in Eastern Europe, to detect mechanisms that generate …
The Political as the Personal: Postmemory among Descendants of Polish Migrants in Sweden
This article analyses interviews with descendants of Polish migrants in Sweden using the lens of postmemory. The aim is to show how they narrated growing up with parents and grandparents who recalled traumatic experiences of the occupation of Poland during World War II and of the communist era, and to explore the transgenerational imprints of this recall. A number of less-explored aspects of postmemory are elucidated: postmemory related to less e…
Diskurs och erfarenhet: En kommentar
Lära sig bli invandrare: Globala och transnationella mönster i nationella former
In this article I discuss what categorisation does to people. More precisely, I discuss the Swedish concept of invandrare/invandrarbarn — immigrants/immigrant children. A highly heterogeneous group of people are often grouped together and categorised as immigrants/immigrant children. While they may not have much in common in terms of culture, they are categorised, described and treated as immigrants/immigrant children by Swedish society. Do these…
Navigating the Radar: Descendants of Polish Migrants and Racialized Social Landscapes in Sweden
This article takes interest in descendants of white migrants in Sweden and their experiences of racialization. Although research on descendants in this category is rare, they are sometimes assumed to be unproblematically integrated into Swedish whiteness. The article contributes with an empirically based investigation of the subject by analysing in-depth interviews with an up till now almost non-researched group: people who grew up with Polish pa…
Challenging the hierarchies of Swedish whiteness: Negative experiences and undesired effects of passing as white and Swedish
This article focuses on the hierarchies inherent in the Swedish version of whiteness and shows how these hierarchical structures are challenged by subjects placed within the category white. Passing as white is often presumed to be something sought after. The aim of this article is however to empirically explore the other side of the coin, that is, negative experiences and undesired effects of passing as white. With theoretical inspiration drawn f…
Welfare Deservingness for Migrants: Does the Welfare State Model Matter
This article draws on the idea that welfare systems and institutions are based on normative assumptions about justice, solidarity, and responsibility. Even though the literature on welfare deservingness has highlighted the connection between ideas of solidarity and the support to, for instance, people with different ethnic backgrounds, there is very little research on the interconnections of different welfare state models and ideas on how migrati…
Policy Experts Negotiating Popular Fantasies of 'Benefit Tourism' Policy Discourses on Deservingness and Their Relation to Welfare Chauvinism
Welfare provision as a border control strategy is often discussed in relation to irregular migrants and refugees. However, this article focuses on EU migrants. Using discourse theory, it explores interviews with policy experts from four migrant-receiving EU countries. The aim is to identify policy discourses on deservingness articulated in relation to intra-EU migrants from four member states in Eastern Europe, to detect mechanisms that generate …
Utbildning, målmedvetenhet och vithet: Görande av klass bland kvinnor och män med polska föräldrar
Based on an analysis of interviews with women and men who grew up in Sweden with one or two Polish parents this article argues that ethnologists can and should contribute to the research on class by using constructivist theory and illuminating processes in which class is done. Leaning on Beverly Skeggs poststructuralist writing on class it analyses how the interviewees make class with help of the capital they possessed and in relation to class as…
The Political as the Personal: Postmemory among Descendants of Polish Migrants in Sweden
This article analyses interviews with descendants of Polish migrants in Sweden using the lens of postmemory. The aim is to show how they narrated growing up with parents and grandparents who recalled traumatic experiences of the occupation of Poland during World War II and of the communist era, and to explore the transgenerational imprints of this recall. A number of less-explored aspects of postmemory are elucidated: postmemory related to less e…
Sociology (6 works) · Social and Educational Sciences (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Negotiation (2 works)