Migrant bodies and the materialization of belonging in Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3977877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Yngvesson (Hampshire College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 536-551 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2015.1009856 |
| OpenAlex | W1987009545 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 12 |
Immigration and transnational adoption are both manifestations of the pervasive dislocations that characterize the contemporary era. Each illuminates as well the double movement of assimilation and internal exclusion through which racisms that are a heritage of colonialism are expanded and reactivated in the metropolitan centers of western Europe and North America. In this process, race is spatialized, different forms of migrant bodies are produced, and familiar logics of belonging that link person to place are transformed. The differential politics of adoption and immigration in late twentieth-century Sweden shed light on this process of racialization and the affective economies through which it is realized, as that nation pursues a multicultural project in which 'Swedishness' becomes 'the measure of everything
Assimilation (phonology · Colonialism · Immigration · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Psychological nativism · Race (biology · Racialization · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law
The language of threat
Deadly exceptionalisms, or, would you rather be crushed by a moral superpower or a military superpower
Geographies of Child Adoption in Greece During the Economic Crisis (2011-2018)
Governing belonging through attachment
Body in migration
The Biopolitics of Parental Access
Colonial Care in the Nordics
Broadening Social Work’s Framework on Place and Belonging
Humanitarian discourse as racism disclaimer
Making Italy
Revisiting the Right to Know
Outsiders within
Geographies of generation
Belonging in an Adopted World
Suicide in first- and second-generation immigrants in Sweden A comparative study
Suicide, psychiatric illness, and social maladjustment in intercountry adoptees in Sweden
Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities
Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils
Figurations
Intercountry adoption in the new millennium; the ``quiet migration'' revisited
Intensities of feeling
Sweden after the Recent Election
Affective Economies
Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |