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Paradoxes of Multiculturalism in Retrospect and Prospect: Remodelling Sweden
Linköping University, REMESO - Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society. Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO). Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. (REMESO)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5046-8638
Linköping University, REMESO - Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society. Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO). Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. (REMESO)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7328-4863
Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0694-5753
2025 (English)In: Narratives and Practices of Migrant and Minority Incorporation in European Societies / [ed] Hellgren, Zenia, Alexander G. Page and Thomas Sealy, London & New York (NY): Routledge, 2025, 1, p. 86-103Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The chapter starts by revisiting visionary Swedish political reforms of the 1970s phrasing social, cultural, and political rights of migrants and ethnic minorities in terms of citizenship on equal terms, and it discusses discrepancies between vision and political practice. This pertains to an incremental erosion of the Swedish welfare state, connected with the dominance of commodifying neoliberal politics. The authors bring out how this development has progressed through several stages of critical cognizance and reform; yet, in consequence, come to frame increasing austerity of migration, social and labour market policies, incremental social inequality, accompanied by securitisation and racialised stigmatisation of migrants and post-migrants. The conflucing part of the chapter explores how this transformation of the so-called “Swedish model” of an inclusive welfare state , has, in turn, provoked the rise of protest movements focusing issues of social justice . These movements, initiated by a post-migrant generation in Sweden’s disadvantaged suburban neighbourhoods, have branched both translocally and internationally. It is a development that has become a shared experience across the European Union . It has its roots in systematic discrimination and stigmatisation of migrants and racialised others, reflected, as indicated, in an inflamed debate on multiculturalism across Europe. But it provides, as well, arguments for how multiculturalism could be “decolonised” as a resource for transversal conviviality.

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London & New York (NY): Routledge, 2025, 1. p. 86-103
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Routledge Advances in European Politics
Keywords [en]
migration, ethnicity, multiculturalism, social welfare, social movements, racism, discrimination
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Other Social Sciences International Migration and Ethnic Relations Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-212825ISBN: 9781032859675 (print)ISBN: 9781032860534 (print)ISBN: 9781003521075 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-212825DiVA, id: diva2:1950206
Available from: 2025-04-06 Created: 2025-04-06 Last updated: 2025-06-13Bibliographically approved

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