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Under the banner of social inclusion: Constructing the includable subject in EU-financed social initiatives in Sweden
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Education and Sociology. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5624-2576
2021 (English)In: NaPSa 2021. Den nationella paperkonferensen i socialt arbete, 17 och 18 mars., 2021Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The purpose of this study is to gain knowledge about how staff and project leaders working in EU-financed social initiatives targeting ‘vulnerable EU-migrants’ in Sweden formulate what is to be done under the banner of social inclusion. I investigate how the interviewed staff and project leaders reflect upon the many meanings, hardships, and possibilities they ascribe to the concept of social inclusion. Inspired by the works of Michel Foucault and Carol Bacchi I adopt a discourse-oriented governmentality perspective focusing on how the target group ‘vulnerable EU-migrants’ are constructed and problematized as not yet being able to socially include in society or on the labour market and how they are governed towards becoming includable. The empirical material consists of relevant EU policy and sixteen qualitative interviews with staff and project leaders of the social initiatives targeting vulnerable EU-migrants. The analysis consists of two parts focusing on social inclusion for this target group. First, I scrutinize how the interviewees and EU policy formulate their main understandings of what problems ‘vulnerable EU-migrants’ in Sweden are facing. A key question here is how the target group are positioned as problematic in relation to discourses of social inclusion – how are they problematized as excluded? Secondly, I focus on how the target groups are governed towards becoming includable. Here I scrutinize how the target group is constructed as in need of learning how to become included in society and on the labour market and what techniques of governing are deployed to facilitate such learning.

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2021.
Keywords [en]
social work, social inclusion, social exclusion, eu-migrants, FEAD, European social fund, poverty
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Social Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-174312OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-174312DiVA, id: diva2:1538277
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NaPSa 2021. Den nationella paperkonferensen i socialt arbete
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Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2017-01859Available from: 2021-03-18 Created: 2021-03-18 Last updated: 2026-01-28Bibliographically approved

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