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Wojnicka, K., Priori, A., Mellström, U. & Henriksson, A. (2024). He leads a lonely life: single men’s narratives of dating and relationships in the context of transnational migration. Journal of ethnic and migration studies
Open this publication in new window or tab >>He leads a lonely life: single men’s narratives of dating and relationships in the context of transnational migration
2024 (English)In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies, ISSN 1369-183X, E-ISSN 1469-9451Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

This paper presents findings from a qualitative research project examining the dating narratives of single migrant men residing in Sweden and Italy. The study, analyzing 48 interviews with individuals from Syrian, Polish, Bangladeshi and Romanian backgrounds, along with ethnographic observations, employs a theoretical framework rooted in sexual capital theory and critical studies on men and masculinities. The analysis sheds light on the challenges faced by heterosexual single migrant men in their pursuit of intimate partners, attributing these difficulties to lower levels of social, economic and cultural capital, as well as the influence of their specific masculinities, which may be perceived as less attractive within the host societies. The paper argues that the migrant experience can be viewed as a distinctive sexual field wherein individuals encounter unique dynamics and obstacles in the realm of intimate relationships. The implications of these findings extend beyond the personal experiences of migrant men, offering insights into the broader socio-cultural landscape of host societies and the complex interplay between migration, masculinity and intimate relationships. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2024
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Sociology; Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-101598 (URN)10.1080/1369183X.2024.2393673 (DOI)001297150100001 ()2-s2.0-85201976384 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2018-01476
Available from: 2024-09-13 Created: 2024-09-13 Last updated: 2024-10-03Bibliographically approved
Wiksell, K. & Henriksson, A. (2023). Friends against capitalism: Constructive resistance and friendship compliance in worker cooperatives. Current Sociology, 71(7), 1274-1292
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Friends against capitalism: Constructive resistance and friendship compliance in worker cooperatives
2023 (English)In: Current Sociology, ISSN 0011-3921, E-ISSN 1461-7064, Vol. 71, no 7, p. 1274-1292Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The article examines how members of worker cooperatives articulated friendship as resistance against capitalist work relations. This elucidates relatively unexplored links between research on workplace friendships and resistance studies. Based on interviews with members from small Swedish worker co-ops, the analysis shows that the co-ops hinged their friendships on authenticity, but also valued friendship explicitly for its economic and political benefits. Yet, this ideal of authentic and equal friendships sat side by side with narratives of what the article calls 'friendship compliance'. This concept denotes how friendships may instil loyalty, reduce dissent and promote self-sacrifice. It is argued that while such compliance can be at odds with cooperative ideals, its expression in the worker co-ops studied here did not coincide with how the same mechanism has been described as operating in capitalist work organisations.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2023
Keywords
Capitalism, constructive resistance, friendship compliance, friendship culture, worker cooperatives
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Sociology; Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-91067 (URN)10.1177/00113921221100583 (DOI)000808977800001 ()2-s2.0-85131559973 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2022-07-01 Created: 2022-07-01 Last updated: 2024-02-22Bibliographically approved
Straube, W., Linander, I. & Henriksson, A. (2023). Vård för transpersoner i Värmland: Rapport 2023. Karlstad: Karlstads universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Vård för transpersoner i Värmland: Rapport 2023
2023 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Tillgången till könsbekräftande vård i Sverige är begränsad på grund av långa väntetider (2 - 3 år) för kontakt med könsdysforiutredningsteam och det är ofta en lång och komplex utredningsprocess. Många personer som söker vård känner sig maktlösa och ifrågasatta under hälso- och sjukvårdsprocessen. Dessa brister kan ha en negativ påverkan på den vårdsökandes psykiska hälsa. Minoritetsstress och dess negativa inverkan på psykisk och fysisk hälsa utgör ytterligare en faktor och ökar risken för suicid samt misstro gentemot hälso- och sjukvårdssystemet.

Rapportens syfte är att utforska transpersoners erfarenheter av vård i Värmland med särskilt fokus på funktionen Samordnare transvård. Analysen baseras på erfarenheter från personer som har kommit i kontakt med Samordnare transvård. Erfarenheterna samlades in dels genom en kvantitativ enkät med vårdsökande samt genom kvalitativa, semistrukturerade intervjuer med vårdtagare. Intervjuerna genomfördes i juni 2022, och enkäten var öppen för svar mellan december 2022 och februari 2023. Rapporten syftar till att belysa styrkor och svagheter i vården för transpersoner inom regionen och avslutas med rekommendationer för framtida förbättringar.

Resultaten presenteras inom fyra teman: Tema 1: Psykisk(o)hälsa och Samordnare transvård, Tema 2: Bemötande, kontakt och stöd av Samordnare transvård, Tema 3: Övriga vårdkontakter inom Region Värmland, Tema 4: Ytterligare behov och områden för förbättring.

Sammanfattningsvis visar studien att Samordnare transvård är en uppskattad och i många avseenden välfungerande vårdfunktion. Deltagarna upplever att den har god tillgänglighet, ger bra information, är ett viktigt psykosocialt stöd och många uppskattar att den är oberoende av psykiatri. Många söker sig till denna funktion för remiss till könsdysforiutredningsmottagningar vilket respondenterna upplever fungerar bra. Samordnare transvård ska erbjuda stöd och uppföljningsmöten före, under och efterutredningsprocessen, vilket funktionen i viss mån gör men detta är också något som kan förbättras. De som arbetar inom Samordnare transvård upplevs ha god kunskap om könsbekräftande vård, minoritetsstress och utmaningar som transpersoner möter i ett cisnormativt samhälle. Vidare upplever många att Samordnare transvård har givit dem psykosocialt stöd och rådgivning, vilket varit hjälpsamt. Studien visar också att Samordnare transvård kan öka förtroendet för vården och, som många uttrycker det, ger en känsla av att bli sedd och hörd för första gången inom vården.

Denna studie baseras delvis på tidigare forskning som vi genomförde mellan 2021 och 2022 och som publicerades i en rapport år 2022. I den tidigare studien fokuserade vi på att analysera vårdgivarnas erfarenheter av den nya funktionen att samordna transvård på detta sätt, till exempel hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal, chefer och strateger inom Region Värmland, samt de två samordnarnas erfarenheter av sina arbetsförhållanden och utmaningar genom kvalitativa, semistrukturerade intervjuer (Straube & Linander, 2022).

Vi avslutar denna rapport med en lista över rekommendationer som vi hoppas kan vara till hjälp för regionen att förbättra denna funktion, liksom för andra regioner som redan har börjat etablera liknande strukturer eller överväger detta.

En central rekommendation är att andra regioner bör överväga en liknande vårdfunktion för att säkerställa bästa möjliga stöd för transpersoner, särskilt med tanke på den könsbekräftande vårdens bristande tillgänglighet samt transpersoners erfarenheter av minoritetsstress. Denna vårdfunktion i Värmland är framgångsrik eftersom den är lättillgänglig, är placerad utanför den psykiatriska vården och ger psykosocialt stöd tillvårdsökande av transkompetent personal. Andra framgångsfaktorer är personal som har insikt i transcommunityt, ett gott bemötande, professionell yrkeskunskap i form av rådgivare/kuratorer och/eller terapeuter, samt djupgående kunskap om processerna inom den könsbekräftande vården och vårdkedjan i Sverige.

Studien genomfördes på uppdrag av RegionVärmland. Det tvärvetenskapliga forskarteamet består av Wibke Straube (genusvetenskap, Karlstads universitet), Ida Linander (folkhälsovetenskap, Umeå universitet) och Andreas Henriksson (sociologi, Karlstads universitet). Forskningsprojektet och rapporten har finansierats av det regionala nätverket för suicidprevention i Värmland.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2023. p. 51
National Category
Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Research subject
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-99608 (URN)
Funder
Region Värmland
Available from: 2024-05-13 Created: 2024-05-13 Last updated: 2024-05-13Bibliographically approved
Henriksson, A., Mellström, U., Priori, A. & Wojnicka, K. (2023). Waiting or dating? Migrant bachelors in the European borderscapes. Norma, 18(4), 343-359
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Waiting or dating? Migrant bachelors in the European borderscapes
2023 (English)In: Norma, ISSN 1890-2138, E-ISSN 1890-2146, Vol. 18, no 4, p. 343-359Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The article presents results from an interview study on migrant bachelors and discusses differences between Bangladeshi migrants in Italy and Syrian migrants in Sweden, in how they present as singles. Interviewees articulate a simplified distinction between singlehood in Europe and singlehood in Bangladesh or Syria. Singlehood has been theorized as wavering between a period of waiting and a lifestyle with its own inherent value. In our sample, while Bangladeshis describe bachelorhood as a period of waiting, distancing themselves from what they see as European singlehood, Syrians tend to embrace singlehood as inherently valuable and prefer a ‘European way’ of being single. We argue that this difference between the groups is connected not primarily to national or regional cultures, but to how racialized borders shape the two groups in Europe, as well as to the role of class positionalities in determining attitudes toward singlehood. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2023
Keywords
singlehood, migration, Bangladeshi, Syrians, borderwork
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology) International Migration and Ethnic Relations
Research subject
Sociology; Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-96600 (URN)10.1080/18902138.2023.2251351 (DOI)001056894200001 ()2-s2.0-85169586107 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2018-01476
Available from: 2023-09-04 Created: 2023-09-04 Last updated: 2023-12-11Bibliographically approved
Henriksson, A. (2022). Brotherhood as affective disengagement: Male loyalty from family to nation. In: Todd W. Reeser (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect: (pp. 99-110). London: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Brotherhood as affective disengagement: Male loyalty from family to nation
2022 (English)In: The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect / [ed] Todd W. Reeser, London: Routledge, 2022, p. 99-110Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The concept of affective disengagement is introduced as a way to understand brotherhood across personal and social spheres. The chapter follows Margaret Wetherell in seeking out affective practices, or established ways of managing affects. Affective disengagement is one such practice, where individuals stay loyal to a community by keeping their affective distance. Through that distance, they can sustain their loyalty and act on it. The chapter argues that this practice is gendered as male and that it is used in many communities, from the level of families to the level of nations. Through analysis of one Russian and one Danish movie about brothers (Brat (Balabanov 1997) and Brødre (Bier 2004)), as well as interviews with individual men (seven Swedish students), the multi-sited character of brotherhood as affective disengagement is shown.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2022
Keywords
brotherhood, siblings, affect, disengagement, loyalty
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-94221 (URN)10.4324/9781003045007 (DOI)2-s2.0-85143705393 (Scopus ID)9781003045007 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-04-09 Created: 2023-04-09 Last updated: 2023-04-13Bibliographically approved
Murelius, A. & Henriksson, A. (2022). Rum. In: Christopher Engdahl, Satu Heikkinen, Markus Arvidson (Ed.), Hur kan vi förstå rörelse?: Labans rörelseramverk, sociologi och didaktik (pp. 109-151). Stockholm: Liber
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2022 (Swedish)In: Hur kan vi förstå rörelse?: Labans rörelseramverk, sociologi och didaktik / [ed] Christopher Engdahl, Satu Heikkinen, Markus Arvidson, Stockholm: Liber, 2022, p. 109-151Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Liber, 2022
Keywords
rum, Rudolf Laban, dans, sociologi
National Category
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-93957 (URN)9789147145393 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-03-17 Created: 2023-03-17 Last updated: 2023-04-12Bibliographically approved
Henriksson, A. (2019). Affective inequalities in intimate relationships [Review]. NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 27(2), 144-146
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Affective inequalities in intimate relationships
2019 (English)In: NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, ISSN 0803-8740, E-ISSN 1502-394X, Vol. 27, no 2, p. 144-146Article, book review (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2019
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Gender Studies; Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-72482 (URN)10.1080/08038740.2019.1605748 (DOI)000469118700007 ()
Available from: 2019-06-13 Created: 2019-06-13 Last updated: 2020-05-26Bibliographically approved
Henriksson, A., Mellström, U. & Priori, A. (2019). Considering the parameters of transnational bachelorhood. In: : . Paper presented at ESA Conference European Sociological Association 20-23 August Manchester.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Considering the parameters of transnational bachelorhood
2019 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Reaching beyond the media portrayals of 'dangerous migrant men', we ask what bachelorhood entails for migrated men within the European union. Using ethnographic data from Italy and interviews from Sweden, and drawing on previous research, we suggest that critical masculinity studies can be combined with the transnational family framework to situate the single men in a relational and transnational context. Our results indicate that bachelorhood is experienced as both freedom and a challenge to build a life that stretches across cultures and nationalities. In this context, masculinity is construed as both freedom from relations and as (conflicting) loyalties. Considering some differences between Italy and Sweden, we suggest ways in which to further examine transnational bachelorhood across Europe and across groups of migrating men.

Keywords
bachelors, migration, men and masculinities, transnational, singles
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-75120 (URN)
Conference
ESA Conference European Sociological Association 20-23 August Manchester
Projects
Transnational bachelorhood. An ethnography of singledom among migrant men in the European Union
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2018-01476
Available from: 2019-10-07 Created: 2019-10-07 Last updated: 2020-01-29Bibliographically approved
Mohr, S. & Henriksson, A. (2019). Immutably fluid: biographical reflections on gayness in (queer) academia. In: : . Paper presented at Gayness in Queer Times 13-14 June. Brighton, United Kingdom.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Immutably fluid: biographical reflections on gayness in (queer) academia
2019 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The term gay is often associated with a certain gender-dichotomous, liberalising paradigm. As such, it is juxtaposed to the term queer understood as open to gender and sexual fluidity, as well as critical of liberation in the name of identities. Yet the experiences of being gay in (queer) academia do not fit neatly into any of these paradigms. Based on biographical reflections on our academic trajectories as openly gay scholars in gender and queer studies, anthropology, and sociology, in this presentation we want to explore the everyday institutional politics (Ahmed 2012) of being gay in (queer) academia and the affective dissonances (Hemmings 2012) that they lay bare. Difficulties fitting into homosocial groupings of any gender as well as problematizations of gay identity in contemporary gender and queer studies speak to the inherent in-determinability of ’gayness’ and point to the normative frameworks of contemporary (queer) academia. Thus in this presentation, we will suggest to understand gayness as immutably fluid in order to investigate the onto-epistemological boundary work of contemporary (queer) academia and to explore the analytic potentials of gayness as a form of situated knowledges (Haraway 1988).

Keywords
gay, gayness, queer, queer theory, ethnography, academia
National Category
Gender Studies
Research subject
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-74426 (URN)
Conference
Gayness in Queer Times 13-14 June. Brighton, United Kingdom
Available from: 2019-08-20 Created: 2019-08-20 Last updated: 2019-10-24Bibliographically approved
Lilja, M., Henriksson, A. & Baaz, M. (2019). (Re)thinking the Precarity of Swedish Migrants: Governing through Decelerations and Timescapes. The Journal of Refugee Studies, 32(1), 144-161
Open this publication in new window or tab >>(Re)thinking the Precarity of Swedish Migrants: Governing through Decelerations and Timescapes
2019 (English)In: The Journal of Refugee Studies, ISSN 0951-6328, E-ISSN 1471-6925, Vol. 32, no 1, p. 144-161Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article uses the concept of 'time' in order to better understand the situation of precarious migrants in Sweden. Through analysing a number of reports and interviews undertaken with newly arrived migrants in Sweden, it displays how different temporal understandings of the migrants are linked to and managed by governing bodies, laws and regulations. The article centres around two related research questions: (i) What constructions of time are used in the governing of precarious migrants? and (ii) How do these migrants understand their own and society's time?

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2019
Keywords
Accelerations, decelerations, migrants, temporality, time, timescape
National Category
Globalisation Studies Sociology
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-71758 (URN)10.1093/jrs/fey021 (DOI)000463813400008 ()2-s2.0-85063220687 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2019-04-05 Created: 2019-04-05 Last updated: 2020-12-10Bibliographically approved
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