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Orientalist Social Work: Cultural otherization of Muslim Immigrants in Sweden

In English

Författare

  • Barzoo Eliassi

Summary, in English

This aim of this article is to critically examine how the concept of culture is used in Sweden to explain the “failure” or the difficulties that Muslim immigrant families are experiencing with regards to their integration into the dominant society. Whereas, the Swedish society is often represented as ‘modern’, ‘progressive’, and ‘democratic’, immigrants with Muslim backgrounds are predominately described as ‘traditional’, ‘authoritarian’ and ‘pre-modern’. There is a widely held idea within Swedish social work research that immigrant families and the white mainstream Swedish society are situated within two different value systems with different world-views regarding family and gender relations. Due to this entrenched binary opposition, Orientalism becomes constitutive to social work research and practices.

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

33-47

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Critical Social Work

Volym

14

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Ämne

  • Other Social Sciences

Nyckelord

  • Culture
  • Orientalism
  • otherization
  • immigration
  • integration
  • anti-racist social work
  • Sweden

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1543-9372