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Social, Spatial and Material Conditions for Mattering: Newly Arrived Young Migrants’ Possibilities to Matter in Everyday Life in a Swedish School
Halmstad University, School of Health and Welfare. National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4515-6634
School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden.
Halmstad University, School of Health and Welfare.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8345-8994
Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8206-204x
2024 (English)In: Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research, ISSN 1103-3088, E-ISSN 1741-3222, Vol. 32, no 3, p. 296-312Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Mattering as a central part of well-being has not been studied in the context of newly arrived young migrants in Swedish schools. Neither have studies on mattering included material and spatial conditions. This article draws on data collected from ethnographic fieldwork to address this. The theoretical contribution is based on the combination of the concept of mattering with Ahmed’s feminist and postcolonial theory of orientation and a critical view of lived experience as social and bodily orientation devices. Combining these theoretical frameworks, we explore social, spatial and material conditions for mattering in newly arrived youths’ everyday school lives. The overall outcome of our analysis illustrates that mattering is not only a question of social relations but also related to spatial and material dimensions. A conclusion is that Swedishness as an unspoken norm of whiteness is ‘built into the walls’ of Swedish schools and that (in)directly discriminates newly arrived young migrants. © 2024 The Author(s)

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New Delhi: SAGE Publications India, 2024. Vol. 32, no 3, p. 296-312
Keywords [en]
Ethnography, mattering, materiality, orientation, spatiality, well-being, young migrants
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Health Sciences Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48068DOI: 10.1177/11033088231220233ISI: 001144879300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85190886628&OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-48068DiVA, id: diva2:1696328
Available from: 2022-09-16 Created: 2022-09-16 Last updated: 2024-06-26Bibliographically approved
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1. Understanding young people’s well-being within a translocal everyday life: How health and well-being are experienced and conditioned in the daily school life of young people recently migrated to Sweden
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Understanding young people’s well-being within a translocal everyday life: How health and well-being are experienced and conditioned in the daily school life of young people recently migrated to Sweden
2022 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This dissertation deals with the relationship between young people’s health, everyday life, school, and migration. It is a compilation dissertation based on a comprehensive summary (kappa) and four empirical articles. With the school as a point of departure, the dissertation’s overarching aim is to explore everyday experiences of and conditions for health and well-being among young people who recently migrated to Sweden. Further, the aim is to illuminate and problematize the conditions and circumstances within which health is created and negotiated for this group of youths. The newly arrived youths’ experiences and conditions for health and well-being are analyzed through an overall social and cultural framework that emphasizes everyday life and micro-processes. At the same time, everyday experiences, social positionings, and material conditions, explored in the various studies, are linked to power processes. The individual’s room for agency in daily life depends on historical, structural, and relational conditions. In other words, health is related to power in various ways, which forms an extensive part of the dissertation’s analytical focus. The findings are based on three independent data collections, all with a qualitative, exploratory, and health-promoting approach. The study participants are males and females (16–20 years old) from Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Palestine, Kosovo, and Greece. The overall findings show how the young people’s health and well-being are created and conditioned in relation to their relationally, spatially, and temporally situated life experiences, concerning their negotiations of migrant positions, and through their possibilities to matter in regard to the material conditions of the everyday life. By an overall social and cultural approach, emphasizing a translocal everyday life when exploring the conditions of health and well-being for young people recently arrived in Sweden, this dissertation contributes to an under-researched field at the intersection of young people’s everyday life, school, migration, and health.

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Halmstad: Halmstad University Press, 2022. p. 90
Series
Halmstad University Dissertations ; 90
Keywords
Culture, ethnography, everyday racism, health, materiality, migrant positions, migration, photovoice, race, spatiality, temporality, translocational positionality, well-being, young people
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Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology Other Health Sciences Sociology Cultural Studies Ethnology
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urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48069 (URN)978-91-88749-90-1 (ISBN)978-91-88749-89-5 (ISBN)
Public defence
2022-10-07, Baertlingsalen, Visionen, Kristian IV:s väg 3, Halmstad, 13:00 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2022-09-16 Created: 2022-09-16 Last updated: 2023-03-07Bibliographically approved

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