White Working Class Communities in Stockholm

This report is part of a six-city research series, Europe's White Working Class Communities, which examines the realities of people from majority populations in Aarhus, Amsterdam, Berlin, Lyon, Manchester, and Stockholm.White Working Class Communities in Stockholm explores the experiences and concerns of majority Swedes in Greater Stockholm, more specifically in the municipality of Southern Botkyrka. Botkyrka is the fifth-largest municipality in Greater Stockholm, with a history of migration stretching back to at least the 1960s. It is today the first municipality in Sweden where the majority population is no longer the majority locally, but the biggest demographic segment among many minorities.A working class and lower-middle class municipality, Botkyrka is divided into the North—traditionally a home to immigrant workers where today 65 percent of residents have a foreign background—and Southern Botkyrka, a relatively homogenous neighborhood where only 25 percent of residents have a foreign background. While Northern Botkyrka is relatively poor, Southern Botkyrka is a mix of poor and high-income residents. Though few Swedes from the majority population feel marginalized, there are signs that this is changing, with inequality on the rise and labor market participation decreasing for those with less education. Following on from work by the Open Society Foundations' At Home in Europe project on Muslim and Somali communities in Western Europe, this research focuses on white working class communities in seven areas of local policy—employment, education, health, housing, political participation, policing, and the media—as well as broader themes of belonging and identity. It is one of a series providing ground-breaking research on the experiences of a section of the population whose lives are often caricatured and whose voices are rarely heard in debates on integration, social cohesion, and social inclusion. Through a comparative lens, the project seeks to highlight parallels and differences in policies, practices, and experiences across the European cities

Ett annat Stockholm : Det heterogena och mångröstade kulturarvet - om platser, berättande och kulturarvspolitik

Projektet Ett annat Stockholm vill belysa framväxten av det moderna samhället utifrån andra perspektiv än vanligt, utifrån ett antal platser och grupper som hitintills varit dolda i detta sammanhang och synliggöra dessa grupper och deras roller i ”den stora historien”. Förhoppningen är att detta ska kunna bidra till att omforma ”den stora historien” om det moderna samhällets framväxt så att den blir mera heterogen och komplex.</p

I stadens utkant : Svensk-romska livsberättelser och lägerplatser från 1900-talet

Roma people have been present in Sweden for at least 500 years. The first members of the group today known as Swedish Roma arrived in the late 1800s, and during a large part of the 1900s they were forced to a nomadic lifestyle. The purpose of this project is to highlight this part of history, in collaboration with Roma associations, focusing on camp sites and life stories during the 1900s and to incorporate this cultural heritage into Swedish public collections at the Swedish History Museum and the Institute for Language and Folklore. The project will combine ethnological interviews with archaeological excavations, and will involve questions about multiculturalism and interaction between Roma and the majority Swedes.

I stadens utkant. Svensk-romska livsberättelser och lägerplatser från 1900-talet

Roma people have been present in Sweden for at least 500 years. The first members of the group today known as Swedish Roma arrived in the late 1800s, and during a large part of the 1900s they were forced to a nomadic lifestyle. The purpose of this project is to highlight this part of history, in collaboration with Roma associations, focusing on camp sites and life stories during the 1900s and to incorporate this cultural heritage into Swedish public collections at the Swedish History Museum and the Institute for Language and Folklore. The project will combine ethnological interviews with archaeological excavations, and will involve questions about multiculturalism and interaction between Roma and the majority Swedes.

Om avvikelser, gränser och marginaler : en festskrift till Birgitta Svensson

Boken innehåller artiklar skrivna av: Pia Lundahl, Katarina Saltzman, Klas Ramberg, Beate Feldmann, Anja Petersen, Anna Maria Claesson, Marianne Larsson, Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius, Helena Hörnfeldt, Eva M. Karlsson och Karin S. Lindelö