Tobias Hübinette
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 100194 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tobias Hübinette |
| PRENOMES | Tobias |
| SOBRENOME | Hübinette |
| ASSINATURA | HÜBINETTE T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Karlstad University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6775-6476 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 212 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Adoptee Testimonials of Suffering—Transnational Adoptees and the Issue of Suicidality in Swedish Media Texts, 1988–2025
For well over two decades, quantitative research has repeatedly found that suicide attempts and suicides are up to four times more common among transnational adoptees compared to the general population in Sweden. Even so, the Swedish healthcare sector and society at large have failed to address the vulnerable situation of the more than 60,000 foreign-born adoptees in the country. This qualitative study is the first of its kind and draws on accoun…
The Swedish Adoption World and the Process of Coming to Terms with Transnational Adoption
In October 2021 the Swedish government committee of inquiry, the Adoption Commission, was appointed, which presented its final report in June 2025. The Adoption Commission investigated irregular and unethical adoptions to Sweden from the 1950s until today, and it was a part of an ongoing global process of coming to terms with past concerning transnational adoptions. This qualitative media text study examines how the Adoption Commission was percei…
Race in Sweden
Race in Sweden is an introduction to, and a critical investigation of, the Swedish relationship to race in the post-war and contemporary eras. This relationship is fundamentally shaped by an ideiology of colourblindness, with any kind of race talk is being taboo in public discourse and everyday language, and in practice forbidden in official and instituional language. A study of a country which was until recently strikingly white but has become e…
Overseas Korean Adoption and the Birth of Swedish Color-blindness
This article consists of a study of how the first wave of Korean adoptees to Sweden were imagined and represented in a political debate that raged throughout the 1960s concerning whether or not Swedes would adopt non-white children from abroad. The study examines how the arrival of the Korean adoptees came to transform Swedes’ attitude to race and the relationship between race and Swedishness, and how they made it possible for Sweden to transitio…
The emergence and development of the world's first colourblind nation
This chapter chronicles how Sweden emerged as the world’s most colourblind state formation by examining the Swedish critique of the concept of race, which ultimately led to the tabooisation and public elimination of the very word itself. The chapter follows three themes – namely, the Swedish critique of race and how it is steeped in a race biological understanding of the term, the construction of Swedish values and in the end of Swedishness itsel…
In Search of the Swedish Asians
Asians in Sweden make up over 200,000 inhabitants. However, compared to the Afro-Swedes, the Latin Americans or the minority inhabitants who have a background in the Middle East, the Swedish Asians are largely absent from the political, cultural and academic spheres in contemporary Sweden. This absence applies in both minority and migrant contexts as well as in connection with migration and integration issues. This article consists of a study of …
S usie W oo . Framed by War
Given the works by Catherine Ceniza Choy, SooJin Pate, Ji-Yeon Yuh, Grace M. Cho, and many others, it might seem that the pre-1965 history of the mass migration to the United States of South Korean children and women has already been told. Susie Woo’s monograph, Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire, proves this is not yet the case. Woo addresses the migration history that followed the Korean War from a transnati…
Anne Heith. Experienced geographies and alternative realities. Representing Sápmi and Meänmaa
Who are the Swedish K-pop Fans? Revisiting the Reception and Consumption of Hallyu in Post- Gangnam Style Sweden with an Emphasis on K-pop
Who are the Swedish K-pop Fans? : Revisiting the Reception and Consumption of Hallyu in Post-Gangnam Style Sweden with an Emphasis on K-pop
Transracial Families, Race, and Whiteness in Sweden
In this article, we use the results from two studies, one on interracial relationship and the other on transnational adoption, to explore how notions of race and ethnicity shape family policies, family building and everyday life in Sweden. Transnational adoption and interracial marriage in Sweden have previously never been compared in research, even though they both are about transracial family formation. By bringing these two topics together in …
SooJin Pate. From Orphan to Adoptee
Until recently, the adoption of children from non-Western countries by Western parents was not on the research agenda within the academy at large, and those few scholars who even bothered to mention and look at this somewhat peculiar mass movement of children between continents also symptomatically named it the quiet migration. Researchers did not even know how to understand this practice: for psychologists, medical doctors, and social workers it…
Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption
Three phases of hegemonic whiteness
After the election in Sweden in 2010, the racist Sweden Democrats party entered parliament. Post-election reactions and discussions were largely preoccupied with the issue of how the presence of a racist party in the Swedish parliament disturbs the country's exceptionalist image and privileged position – both in the West and in the non-Western world – as humanity's avant-garde and beacon for antiracism. This article aims to understand the current…
Race performativity and melancholic whiteness in contemporary Sweden
This article deals with the subject of race performativity, and has Sweden as its case study and national context. In 2011, an academic scandal erupted at Lund University when a group of white students in blackface, chained and half-naked, performed a slave auction at a dinner party. In the debate that followed, many of the white Swedish voices that were raised defended the scandal as an expression of an apolitical and liberated humour, while on …
Diaspora och sexualitet
This article is about diaspora. Through an analysis of the narratives of first generation Iranian women living in Sweden, I demonstrate how migratory experiences impact sexuality and how and in what ways sexuality is constitutive to the migratory process. By discussing some of the key subjects raised by the interviewees, such as intimacy in the diasporic space, contradictory gender discourses, the dominating impacts of existing Orientalist stereo…
Transracial Adoption, White Cosmopolitanism and the Fantasy of the Global Family
This article takes at its point of the departure the practice of transracial adoption of children and adults. During the colonial period, it was not only non-white native children or adults who were adopted by white colonisers and settlers; the opposite also occurred. The existence of these ‘inverted’ transracial adoptions is well-documented in literary and autobiographical texts and historical documents, as well as in art and visual culture. At …
Between Colourblindness and Ethnicisation
When and how are issues of race and ethnicity articulated in the everyday lives of transnational adoptees in Sweden? Which discursive and practical ambivalences and conflicts do they provoke? What happens with issues of race in a country where antiracist colourblindness is the norm, and where there has been no debate on whether whites should adopt children of colour? Based on an analysis of interviews with transnational adoptees and adoption-rela…
Sweden after the Recent Election
2011). Sweden after the Recent Election: The Double-Binding Power of Swedish Whiteness through the Mourning of the Loss of "Old Sweden" and the Passing of "Good Sweden". NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 42-52
Adoption with complications
This study is based on qualitative interviews with 20 adult international adoptees of colour and eight adoptive parents with internationally adopted children in Sweden regarding their experiences of racialization, ethnic identifications and coping strategies. The findings suggest that the non-white bodies of the adoptees are constantly made significant in their everyday lives in interactions with the white Swedish majority population, whether exp…
Entries
To be Non-white in a Colour-Blind Society
This study is based on qualitative interviews with 20 adult international adoptees of colour and 8 adoptive parents with internationally adopted children in Sweden regarding their experiences of racialisation, ethnic identifications and coping strategies. The study finds that the non-white bodies of the adoptees are constantly made significant in their everyday lives in interactions with the white Swedish majority population, whether expressed as…
Asia as a Topos of Fear and Desire for Nazis and Extreme Rightists
Research Article| May 01 2007 Asia as a Topos of Fear and Desire for Nazis and Extreme Rightists: The Case of Asian Studies in Sweden Tobias Hübinette Tobias Hübinette Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2007) 15 (2): 403–428. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-035 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tobias Hübinette; Asia as a Topos of Fear and Des…
Adopted Territory
Scientist or Racist? The Racialized Memory War Over Monuments to Carl Linnaeus in Sweden During the Black Lives Matter Summer of 2020
This is a study of the Swedish debate on statues and monuments to the world-famous Swedish natural scientist Carl Linnaeus that took place during the Black Lives Matter movement breakthrough in the summer of 2020. The purpose is to examine how understandings of race, racism, identity, and history were articulated in the debate. The empirical material consists of Twitter posts and newspaper editorials, which we approach through thematic analysis c…
The First Amerasians
Sweden after the Recent Election
2011). Sweden after the Recent Election: The Double-Binding Power of Swedish Whiteness through the Mourning of the Loss of "Old Sweden" and the Passing of "Good Sweden". NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 42-52
Three phases of hegemonic whiteness
After the election in Sweden in 2010, the racist Sweden Democrats party entered parliament. Post-election reactions and discussions were largely preoccupied with the issue of how the presence of a racist party in the Swedish parliament disturbs the country's exceptionalist image and privileged position – both in the West and in the non-Western world – as humanity's avant-garde and beacon for antiracism. This article aims to understand the current…
Adopted Koreans and the Development of Identity in the ‘Third Space’
Since 1953, 150,000 Korean children have been adopted to 15 main host countries in the West. They constitute the largest international adoptee group worldwide. An adopted Korean movement has existed on an international level since the 1990s and is today trying to formulate an identity and community of its own beyond Western adoption ideology and Korean nationalism. Tobias Hübinette outlines the history of international adoption from Korea, Wester…
To be Non-white in a Colour-Blind Society
This study is based on qualitative interviews with 20 adult international adoptees of colour and 8 adoptive parents with internationally adopted children in Sweden regarding their experiences of racialisation, ethnic identifications and coping strategies. The study finds that the non-white bodies of the adoptees are constantly made significant in their everyday lives in interactions with the white Swedish majority population, whether expressed as…
Adoption with complications
This study is based on qualitative interviews with 20 adult international adoptees of colour and eight adoptive parents with internationally adopted children in Sweden regarding their experiences of racialization, ethnic identifications and coping strategies. The findings suggest that the non-white bodies of the adoptees are constantly made significant in their everyday lives in interactions with the white Swedish majority population, whether exp…
Between Colourblindness and Ethnicisation
When and how are issues of race and ethnicity articulated in the everyday lives of transnational adoptees in Sweden? Which discursive and practical ambivalences and conflicts do they provoke? What happens with issues of race in a country where antiracist colourblindness is the norm, and where there has been no debate on whether whites should adopt children of colour? Based on an analysis of interviews with transnational adoptees and adoption-rela…
Nationalism, Subalternity, and the Adopted Koreans
Nationalism, Subalternity, and the Adopted Koreans Tobias Hübinette (bio) Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, more than 160,000 Korean children have been adopted to fifteen Western countries. The United States has taken in two thirds, while the rest are spread out in northwestern Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. During recent years, overseas adopted Koreans have increasingly turned up in various Korean popular cultural works inclu…
Transracial Families, Race, and Whiteness in Sweden
In this article, we use the results from two studies, one on interracial relationship and the other on transnational adoption, to explore how notions of race and ethnicity shape family policies, family building and everyday life in Sweden. Transnational adoption and interracial marriage in Sweden have previously never been compared in research, even though they both are about transracial family formation. By bringing these two topics together in …
Transracial Adoption, White Cosmopolitanism and the Fantasy of the Global Family
This article takes at its point of the departure the practice of transracial adoption of children and adults. During the colonial period, it was not only non-white native children or adults who were adopted by white colonisers and settlers; the opposite also occurred. The existence of these ‘inverted’ transracial adoptions is well-documented in literary and autobiographical texts and historical documents, as well as in art and visual culture. At …
The orphaned nation
International adoption from Korea constitutes the background to this study. The forced migration of Korean children has by now continued for over half a century, resulting in a diaspora of more than 150,000 adopted Koreans dispersed among 15 main host countries on the continents of Europe, North America and Oceania. Both the demographic scope, the time span and the geographic spread are absolutely unique in a comparative historical child migrator…
The Swedish Adoption World and the Process of Coming to Terms with Transnational Adoption
In October 2021 the Swedish government committee of inquiry, the Adoption Commission, was appointed, which presented its final report in June 2025. The Adoption Commission investigated irregular and unethical adoptions to Sweden from the 1950s until today, and it was a part of an ongoing global process of coming to terms with past concerning transnational adoptions. This qualitative media text study examines how the Adoption Commission was percei…
Race performativity and melancholic whiteness in contemporary Sweden
This article deals with the subject of race performativity, and has Sweden as its case study and national context. In 2011, an academic scandal erupted at Lund University when a group of white students in blackface, chained and half-naked, performed a slave auction at a dinner party. In the debate that followed, many of the white Swedish voices that were raised defended the scandal as an expression of an apolitical and liberated humour, while on …
Asia as a Topos of Fear and Desire for Nazis and Extreme Rightists
Research Article| May 01 2007 Asia as a Topos of Fear and Desire for Nazis and Extreme Rightists: The Case of Asian Studies in Sweden Tobias Hübinette Tobias Hübinette Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2007) 15 (2): 403–428. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-035 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tobias Hübinette; Asia as a Topos of Fear and Des…
Adoptionsfrågan i koreansk populärkultur
Korea is the country in the world that has sent away the largest number of children for adoption overseas. Since the end of the Korean war, 150,000 children have been adopted to a dozen Western countries. Overseas adoption was for a long time considered a secretive embarrassment by the Korean government, but through media exposure at the end of the 1980s, the problem or issue of Korea's overseas adoption (ibyangmunjê) has almost been institutiona…
Adopted Koreans and the Development of Identity in the ‘Third Space’
Since 1953, 150,000 Korean children have been adopted to 15 main host countries in the West. They constitute the largest international adoptee group worldwide. An adopted Korean movement has existed on an international level since the 1990s and is today trying to formulate an identity and community of its own beyond Western adoption ideology and Korean nationalism. Tobias Hübinette outlines the history of international adoption from Korea, Wester…
The orphaned nation
International adoption from Korea constitutes the background to this study. The forced migration of Korean children has by now continued for over half a century, resulting in a diaspora of more than 150,000 adopted Koreans dispersed among 15 main host countries on the continents of Europe, North America and Oceania. Both the demographic scope, the time span and the geographic spread are absolutely unique in a comparative historical child migrator…
Asia as a Topos of Fear and Desire for Nazis and Extreme Rightists
Research Article| May 01 2007 Asia as a Topos of Fear and Desire for Nazis and Extreme Rightists: The Case of Asian Studies in Sweden Tobias Hübinette Tobias Hübinette Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2007) 15 (2): 403–428. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-035 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tobias Hübinette; Asia as a Topos of Fear and Des…
Nationalism, Subalternity, and the Adopted Koreans
Nationalism, Subalternity, and the Adopted Koreans Tobias Hübinette (bio) Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, more than 160,000 Korean children have been adopted to fifteen Western countries. The United States has taken in two thirds, while the rest are spread out in northwestern Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. During recent years, overseas adopted Koreans have increasingly turned up in various Korean popular cultural works inclu…
Entries
To be Non-white in a Colour-Blind Society
This study is based on qualitative interviews with 20 adult international adoptees of colour and 8 adoptive parents with internationally adopted children in Sweden regarding their experiences of racialisation, ethnic identifications and coping strategies. The study finds that the non-white bodies of the adoptees are constantly made significant in their everyday lives in interactions with the white Swedish majority population, whether expressed as…
Adoption with complications
This study is based on qualitative interviews with 20 adult international adoptees of colour and eight adoptive parents with internationally adopted children in Sweden regarding their experiences of racialization, ethnic identifications and coping strategies. The findings suggest that the non-white bodies of the adoptees are constantly made significant in their everyday lives in interactions with the white Swedish majority population, whether exp…
Sweden after the Recent Election
2011). Sweden after the Recent Election: The Double-Binding Power of Swedish Whiteness through the Mourning of the Loss of "Old Sweden" and the Passing of "Good Sweden". NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 42-52
Transracial Adoption, White Cosmopolitanism and the Fantasy of the Global Family
This article takes at its point of the departure the practice of transracial adoption of children and adults. During the colonial period, it was not only non-white native children or adults who were adopted by white colonisers and settlers; the opposite also occurred. The existence of these ‘inverted’ transracial adoptions is well-documented in literary and autobiographical texts and historical documents, as well as in art and visual culture. At …
Between Colourblindness and Ethnicisation
When and how are issues of race and ethnicity articulated in the everyday lives of transnational adoptees in Sweden? Which discursive and practical ambivalences and conflicts do they provoke? What happens with issues of race in a country where antiracist colourblindness is the norm, and where there has been no debate on whether whites should adopt children of colour? Based on an analysis of interviews with transnational adoptees and adoption-rela…
Diaspora och sexualitet
This article is about diaspora. Through an analysis of the narratives of first generation Iranian women living in Sweden, I demonstrate how migratory experiences impact sexuality and how and in what ways sexuality is constitutive to the migratory process. By discussing some of the key subjects raised by the interviewees, such as intimacy in the diasporic space, contradictory gender discourses, the dominating impacts of existing Orientalist stereo…
Three phases of hegemonic whiteness
After the election in Sweden in 2010, the racist Sweden Democrats party entered parliament. Post-election reactions and discussions were largely preoccupied with the issue of how the presence of a racist party in the Swedish parliament disturbs the country's exceptionalist image and privileged position – both in the West and in the non-Western world – as humanity's avant-garde and beacon for antiracism. This article aims to understand the current…
Race performativity and melancholic whiteness in contemporary Sweden
This article deals with the subject of race performativity, and has Sweden as its case study and national context. In 2011, an academic scandal erupted at Lund University when a group of white students in blackface, chained and half-naked, performed a slave auction at a dinner party. In the debate that followed, many of the white Swedish voices that were raised defended the scandal as an expression of an apolitical and liberated humour, while on …
SooJin Pate. From Orphan to Adoptee
Until recently, the adoption of children from non-Western countries by Western parents was not on the research agenda within the academy at large, and those few scholars who even bothered to mention and look at this somewhat peculiar mass movement of children between continents also symptomatically named it the quiet migration. Researchers did not even know how to understand this practice: for psychologists, medical doctors, and social workers it…
Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption
Who are the Swedish K-pop Fans? Revisiting the Reception and Consumption of Hallyu in Post- Gangnam Style Sweden with an Emphasis on K-pop
Who are the Swedish K-pop Fans? : Revisiting the Reception and Consumption of Hallyu in Post-Gangnam Style Sweden with an Emphasis on K-pop
Transracial Families, Race, and Whiteness in Sweden
In this article, we use the results from two studies, one on interracial relationship and the other on transnational adoption, to explore how notions of race and ethnicity shape family policies, family building and everyday life in Sweden. Transnational adoption and interracial marriage in Sweden have previously never been compared in research, even though they both are about transracial family formation. By bringing these two topics together in …
In Search of the Swedish Asians
Asians in Sweden make up over 200,000 inhabitants. However, compared to the Afro-Swedes, the Latin Americans or the minority inhabitants who have a background in the Middle East, the Swedish Asians are largely absent from the political, cultural and academic spheres in contemporary Sweden. This absence applies in both minority and migrant contexts as well as in connection with migration and integration issues. This article consists of a study of …
S usie W oo . Framed by War
Given the works by Catherine Ceniza Choy, SooJin Pate, Ji-Yeon Yuh, Grace M. Cho, and many others, it might seem that the pre-1965 history of the mass migration to the United States of South Korean children and women has already been told. Susie Woo’s monograph, Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire, proves this is not yet the case. Woo addresses the migration history that followed the Korean War from a transnati…
Anne Heith. Experienced geographies and alternative realities. Representing Sápmi and Meänmaa
Race in Sweden
Race in Sweden is an introduction to, and a critical investigation of, the Swedish relationship to race in the post-war and contemporary eras. This relationship is fundamentally shaped by an ideiology of colourblindness, with any kind of race talk is being taboo in public discourse and everyday language, and in practice forbidden in official and instituional language. A study of a country which was until recently strikingly white but has become e…
Overseas Korean Adoption and the Birth of Swedish Color-blindness
This article consists of a study of how the first wave of Korean adoptees to Sweden were imagined and represented in a political debate that raged throughout the 1960s concerning whether or not Swedes would adopt non-white children from abroad. The study examines how the arrival of the Korean adoptees came to transform Swedes’ attitude to race and the relationship between race and Swedishness, and how they made it possible for Sweden to transitio…
The emergence and development of the world's first colourblind nation
This chapter chronicles how Sweden emerged as the world’s most colourblind state formation by examining the Swedish critique of the concept of race, which ultimately led to the tabooisation and public elimination of the very word itself. The chapter follows three themes – namely, the Swedish critique of race and how it is steeped in a race biological understanding of the term, the construction of Swedish values and in the end of Swedishness itsel…
Adopted Territory
Sociology (21 obras) · Gender Studies (18 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Gender Studies (11 obras) · History (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (7 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (7 obras)