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dc.contributor.authorTolgensbakk, Ida
dc.coverage.spatialScandinaviaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-07T15:19:32Z
dc.date.available2022-12-07T15:19:32Z
dc.date.created2022-08-09T13:22:40Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Critical Mixed Race Studies. 2022, 1 (2), 76-91.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2325-4521
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3036456
dc.description.abstractSwedes are almost unambiguously considered White in Norway and, therefore, labeled as non-strangers and non-marked. One of the most striking aspects of studying young Swedish labor migrants to the Norwegian capital is their positioning vis-à-vis the (White) majority and other (Black) minorities; they are immigrants categorized as “not quite” or “not real” immigrants. However, this position is contested in different ways, among other things, by othering processes taking place through the microaggressions of “What are you?” encounters, when linguistic differences are noted. This article argues that Swedes are an invisible, but audible, minority in Norway, categorized as outsiders not through phenotypical difference but through linguistic otherness. This labeling through language takes on extra dimensions when the individual migrants in question do not fit phenotypically with the stereotypical understanding of Swedes as the epitome of Northern European Whiteness. Many Swedes arriving in Norway as migrants are neither blond nor blue-eyed; they may be adopted, be of mixed race, or have Middle Eastern, Asian, or African family backgrounds. This article discusses aspects of the negotiations that take place in the intersection of phenotype and linguistic labeling when Swedes are Black migrants in Norway.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Californiaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Critical Mixed Race Studies;Volume 1, Issue 2
dc.relation.urihttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7051r40f
dc.subjectKritisk raseteorien_US
dc.subjectCritical Race Theoryen_US
dc.subjectHumoren_US
dc.subjectHumouren_US
dc.subjectArbeidsmigrasjonen_US
dc.subjectWork migrationen_US
dc.subjectRasismeen_US
dc.subjectRacismen_US
dc.subjectMixed race studiesen_US
dc.subjectOtheringen_US
dc.subjectAudible minorititiesen_US
dc.subjectCritical Whiteness studiesen_US
dc.titleSpeaking Swedish While Black in Norwayen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2022 by the author(s)en_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5070/C81258319
dc.identifier.cristin2041972
dc.source.journalJournal of Critical Mixed Race Studiesen_US
dc.source.volume1en_US
dc.source.issue2en_US
dc.source.pagenumber76-91en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Kulturvitenskap: 060en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Cultural studies: 060en_US


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