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Record W4206519294 · doi:10.46692/9781847423412.011

Women friendly? Understanding gendered racism in Sweden

2008· other· en· W4206519294 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Diana Mulinari

Bibliographic record

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Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicResearch in Social Sciences
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRacismGender studiesSociologyAnti-racism

Abstract

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Introduction This chapter offers a re-reading of the Swedish welfare state based on everyday experiences of women from the Latin American diaspora (Sawyer, 2000; Alinia, 2004) living in Sweden. Central to the chapter is to explore the specific experience of a group of migrant women at the crossroads between their transnational communities and the public policies of the Swedish welfare state. Hegemonic trends in Swedish gender studies primarily focus on the conditions of women conceptualised as belonging to the nation. An under-theorisation of gendered racism(s) is common in these studies (Mulinari, 2001). The expansion and academic institutionalisation of queer and post-colonial feminism in the late 1980s changed the landscape of Swedish feminism. Studies inspired by intersectional analysis are today at the core of developments in the field. While few feminist post-colonial studies have been carried out in Sweden, the dominant strands of research continue to represent migrant women as ‘different’, ‘passive’, ‘traditional’, lacking democratic traditions and with backgrounds in ‘patriarchal’ cultures. The chapter takes its theoretical point of departure from both international and Swedish debates on intersectionality (Collins, 1998; de los Reyes and Mulinari, 2004) and aims to grasp the diversity of migrant women's experience of the Swedish welfare state. Theoretical starting points Recognition of the narrow and problematic understanding of the world that is embodied in the word ‘immigrant’ has evolved over the last few years (Brah, 1996; Räthzel, 1997). Recent studies in the field of social policy have highlighted the significance of ‘race’/ethnicity, especially the central role that the welfare state and its institutions play in creating and reproducing specific categories of people (Clark, 2004). Sweden is today the EU country with the highest proportion of migrants in relation to total population (16% of 9 million when citizens with ‘migrant background’ born in Sweden are included). Castles and Miller (1993) classify Sweden in their analysis of migration regimes together with Australia and Canada with a migration system of permanent settlement, where immigrants are formally granted access to social rights. The concept of subordinated inclusion grasps the specificities of this regime, grounded in the establishment and development of a racialised and gendered working class, where racialised groups are included, but placed in subordinated positions in all spheres of life (Ålund and Schierup, 1991; Mulinari and Neergaard, 2004).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.042

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0110.016
Scholarly communication0.0130.004
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.210
GPT teacher head0.414
Teacher spread0.204 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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