Guiden till Spaniensverige: diaspora, integration och transnationalitet bland svenska föreningar i södra Spanien
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In: Anthropology & Society
"""Guiden till Spaniensverige"" (The Guide to Spanish-Sweden) is an ethnographic account on the mobilisation of a social community of Swedish migrants who otherwise belongs to the diverse networks of lifestyle migrants or resident tourists in Southern Spain. The book is based on interviews with people who are engaged in Scandinavian associations/clubs or in other ways involved in practices which are associated with a Swedish community in Costa Blanca and Costa del Sol, which are two main destinations for lifestyle migrants in Spain. In addition the analysis is based on the discursive material that the social clubs, and to some extent other organisations and networks, are using in the service to their members.
The book demonstrates how the practices of the large Scandinavian social clubs, but also other organisations like the Swedish church and some of the business associations, are operating at the locus of an ethnic and transnationalised form of community-making. The offering of a home-like social arena with social and cultural activities are privileging the Swedish language and the Swedish origin. This study concludes that the social practices employed by the clubs are guiding potential members to a social space in which preferably 'senior' Swedish migrants meet, socialise, and, to some extent, also consume in 'Swedish'. The book argues that the practices of the social clubs reveal the contours and infrastructure of a lifestyle diaspora in which a comfortable life in Spain – but in Swedish and with maintained relations with the Swedish society – is accentuated and given priority."
In: Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 20-34
ISSN: 1799-649X
In: Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 156
ISSN: 1799-649X
In: Diaspora: a journal of transnational studies, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 362-384
ISSN: 1911-1568
This article examines the realization of "projects" to return to the country of origin for Chilean migrants who lived in the Swedish diaspora and how they relate to the social context in which these migrants lived as exiles. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research and the analysis of returnees' narratives, it argues that the return project is not just the undertaking of isolated individuals, manifested in the decision to move, but rather an expression of discourses and practices embedded in the social context of migrants. The implementation of a return project serves as a "programmed act" of the discourses dominating in exile and becomes, with time, a journey back to "roots" that has different connotations depending on the circumstances of return. The study demonstrates that returnees tend to continue to position themselves as part of their diasporic network even after return. It is concluded that the transnational practices of the diaspora maintain social networks even after people have launched their return projects and moved back to their country of origin. The Swedish-Chilean return projects demonstrate how the idea of people's cultural and territorial roots serves the diasporic networks' efforts to bridge seemingly disparate social worlds and refigures that social space.
In: Social identities: journal for the study of race, nation and culture, Band 15, Heft 5, S. 659-676
ISSN: 1363-0296
In: Diaspora: a journal of transnational studies, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 362-384
ISSN: 1911-1568
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 197, Heft 10, S. 4475-4493
ISSN: 1573-0964
Abstract
The main issue in the epistemology of peer disagreement is whether known disagreement among those who are in symmetrical epistemic positions undermines the rationality of their maintaining their respective views. Douven and Kelp have argued convincingly that this problem is best understood as being about how to respond to peer disagreement repeatedly over time, and that this diachronic issue can be best approached through computer simulation. However, Douven and Kelp's favored simulation framework cannot naturally handle Christensen's famous Mental Math example. As a remedy, I introduce an alternative (Bayesian) simulation framework, Laputa, inspired by Alvin Goldman's seminal work on veritistic social epistemology. I show that Christensen's conciliatory response, reasonably reconstructed and supplemented, gives rise to an increase in epistemic (veritistic) value only if the peers continue to recheck their mental math; else the peers might as well be steadfast. On a meta-level, the study illustrates the power of Goldman's approach when combined with simulation techniques for handling the computational issues involved.
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 245-247
ISSN: 1467-9981
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 194, Heft 5, S. 1433-1450
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Social epistemology: a journal of knowledge, culture and policy, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 173-182
ISSN: 1464-5297
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 157, Heft 3, S. 267-274
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 133
ISSN: 1799-649X
In: Action research, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 9-29
ISSN: 1741-2617
Organized screening programs have proved effective at reducing cervical cancer in Sweden by offering early detection of precancerous cells. However, participation rates vary across groups of women. The purpose of this paper is to explore how participatory action research contributes to (re)designing cervical cancer screening programs to better meet local residents' needs and expectations. The paper examines the Pap smear testing barriers encountered by foreign-born women. It is also reported how different actors within the healthcare system as well as civil society can work together to address these barriers and improve healthcare services. Moreover, the paper contributes to action research methodology by demonstrating how participatory inquiries benefit from quantitative monitoring of improvement initiatives.