Sweden
HIV/Aids policy and the 'crisis' of multiculturalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2357107 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Bredström (0000-0001-5451-8540, Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University, Sweden) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 57-74 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Race & Class (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-3968 • E-ISSN: 1741-3125 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0306396809102998 |
| OpenAlex | W2092438953 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
This article examines shifts in the ways that immigrants were framed and depicted within Swedish HIV/AIDS policy discourse from 1985 to 2005. In particular, it examines whether, when and how immigrants were linked to understandings of risk and safety in sexual relations. Whereas, at first, immigrants were rather marginal to this discourse, they later held a central position. Moreover, there was a shift in how ethnicity and 'race' were conceptualised by the Swedish authorities - a movement away from cultural pluralism towards neo-assimilationism. Throughout this time, cultural differences, often defined in terms of different attitudes to gender and sexuality, were focused on as defining the boundaries between 'immigrants' and 'Swedes'. But, whereas the pluralist approach favoured respect and tolerance for these differences, the neo-assimilationist approach that replaced it argued that immigrants ought to assimilate to the more enlightened sexual values of Swedishness, in order to better prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS infection
Citizenship · Cultural assimilation · Ethnic group · Human sexuality · Immigration · Immigration policy · Inequality · Multiculturalism · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2017 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |