Original scientific paper

Youth and Social Exclusion in "Multicultural" Sweden

Aleksandra Ålund ; Department of Sociology, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden

Abstract

The paper examines social exclusion of young people from an increasingly ethnically segmented labour market in Sweden. Discrimination of new ethnic minorities in the ethnically complex and socially charged environments of Stockholm, the author maintains, is hidden in a fog of stereotypical images of cultural differences. What is not usually recognised are social inequalities, and that the social struggle continues through the cultural. It is here, in the context of segregated living conditions, that not only new inclusive transethnic identities and composite cultural expressions but also new ethnic street corner fundamentalisms are emerging.

Keywords

youth; culture; identity; ethnicity; social exclusion; immigrants; Sweden

Hrčak ID:

126521

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/126521

Publication date:

30.12.1998.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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