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Youth And Marginalisation - Young People from Immigrant Families in Scandinavia (Paperback)
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Youth And Marginalisation - Young People from Immigrant Families in Scandinavia (Paperback)
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This book is the result of extensive ethnographic research that has
analysed the experiences of young people from immigrant families in
the Nordic cities of Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Oslo. Concepts of
cultural and urban studies, sociology, education and other
disciplines are used - inclusion/exclusion, territorial
stigmatisation, post-colonialism and critical race theory. In many
ways suburban youth are to be viewed as a class-in-itself:
objectified by curricula and school practices, often vilified,
downtrodden and symbolically exploited in the mainstream media and
common understanding. At the same time their youth cultures evoke
the other half of the Marxist class concept, the class-for-itself,
in understanding youth sub-cultures as creative collective
responses and resistance to a shared social situation. The hip-hop
cultures of youth in multicultural areas are often postmodern in
identity-play and aesthetics, but by no means de-politicised, and
furthermore these youths display creativity in the social media
where they challenge dominant discourses of place, identity and
belonging in society. The Nordic countries are often seen as the
home of egalitarianism and decent hosts of immigrants, but this
book reveals a more complicated picture. Inclusion and
multiculturalism may be key words in Nordic educational policy, but
analyses of curricula and teaching practices show that these goals
are far from realised. Curricula stress a Nordic, Western and
Christian cultural heritage, school practices recommend migrants to
adapt to life style of the natives and residential segregation is a
central factor in mechanisms of exclusion. All major cities in the
Nordic countries have immigrant-dense areas, primarily in suburbs
that were originally built for the upwardly mobile native working
class. This segregation means less opportunities in the educational
system and it is difficult to apply for a job from 'the wrong
address'. At the same time these areas have become the nests of
creative and resistant youth cultures.
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