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Overseas Korean Adoption and the Birth of Swedish Color-blindness: A Study of How Korean Adoptees Transformed Sweden's Attitude to Race and the Relationship between Race and Swedishness
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Language, Literature and Intercultural Studies (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6775-6476
2023 (English)In: European Journal of Korean Studies, ISSN 2631-4134, E-ISSN 2516-5399, Vol. 22, no 2, p. 71-98Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article consists of a study of how the first wave of Korean adoptees to Sweden were imagined and represented in a political debate that raged throughout the 1960s concerning whether or not Swedes would adopt non-white children from abroad. The study examines how the arrival of the Korean adoptees came to transform Swedes' attitude to race and the relationship between race and Swedishness, and how they made it possible for Sweden to transition from a country with a racial obsession to an antiracist nation in the 1960s, when Sweden was one of the Western world's whitest and most racially homogeneous countries.

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British Association of Korean Studies (BAKS) , 2023. Vol. 22, no 2, p. 71-98
Keywords [en]
Sweden, transnational adoption, Korean adoptees, race, whiteness
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Intercultural Studies; Swedish as a Second Language
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-96462ISI: 001023435100004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85184761986OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-96462DiVA, id: diva2:1791116
Available from: 2023-08-24 Created: 2023-08-24 Last updated: 2024-03-19Bibliographically approved

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