From nazi concentration camp to detention in Sweden 1945 : Female survivors, sexuality, and respectability
(2022) In Ethnologia Scandinavica 52. p.90-114- Abstract
- Gunnarpshemmet was a closed detention camp for female refugees. Fifty-seven women were forcibly detained here be-tween 1945 and 1946. This article examine the camp, focusing on the internment of former concentration camp prisoners who had been transferred to Sweden with the “white buses” Red Cross rescue operation, undertaken in the spring of 1945. Gunnarpshemmet serves as a case study to shed light on how gender and sexuality, intersecting with other power structures created the boundaries of citizenship for these women. The purpose of this article is to investigate the power play between the survivors and the camp institution, and to explore various tactics the women could develop to resist the detention, (re)gain respectability, and... (More)
- Gunnarpshemmet was a closed detention camp for female refugees. Fifty-seven women were forcibly detained here be-tween 1945 and 1946. This article examine the camp, focusing on the internment of former concentration camp prisoners who had been transferred to Sweden with the “white buses” Red Cross rescue operation, undertaken in the spring of 1945. Gunnarpshemmet serves as a case study to shed light on how gender and sexuality, intersecting with other power structures created the boundaries of citizenship for these women. The purpose of this article is to investigate the power play between the survivors and the camp institution, and to explore various tactics the women could develop to resist the detention, (re)gain respectability, and avoid repatriation. With inspiration from Beverly Skeggs’s thinking about respectability as a crucial capital to be counted as a citizen, the aim is to shed light on the complexity and di-versity of the group of “survivors”, and to emphasize them as agents. (Less)
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- author
- Geschwind, Britta Zetterström LU
- organization
- alternative title
- Från nazistiskt koncentrationsläger till internering i Sverige : kvinnliga överlevande, sexualitet och respektabilitet
- publishing date
- 2022
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- repatriand, kön, sexualitet, internering, repatriate, gender, sexuality, detention
- in
- Ethnologia Scandinavica
- volume
- 52
- pages
- 25 pages
- publisher
- Folklivsarkivet
- ISSN
- 0348-9698
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 61938226-7cba-4b10-be9f-d8a25acbd1ed
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- https://kgaa.bokorder.se/sv-SE/article/4567/ethnologia-scandinavica-2022
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title = {{From nazi concentration camp to detention in Sweden 1945 : Female survivors, sexuality, and respectability}},
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