Understanding Race in Sweden

• DOI: 10.18261/njsr.13.1.5
• Publication Date: 2022-09-21T11:44:21Z
• Authors: Sayaka Osanami Tö...
• Keywords: 05 social sciences; 0507 social and economic geography

Mixed populations are becoming increasingly visible in Swedish society, although they not always recognised as such.In a colour-blind mixed Swedes fall into the dichotomised binary of 'Swedes' and 'immigrants' .The experiences twenty-one interviewees with multiethnic multiracial can be broadly categorised three types: those who feel that discriminated against or racialised, but both racialised.The analysis illustrates interviewed Swedes' unique position racial hierarchy Sweden how fluid their are.Their different also show understandings white non-white groups formed through processes racialisation deracialisation Sweden.