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Det sociala spelet om Romano Platso

Popoola, Margareta LU (1998) In Lund Dissertations in Sociology
Abstract
This thesis has been taking a starting point from a micro-level that focuses social structures, ethnic segregation and processes of development as phenomena from different levels of perspectives. The research focuses on housing-conditions in the urban room and take a starting-point in 1992 when an increased number of immigrant households, depending on social welfare, moved into Herrgården (Manor-House), a narrow area within Rosengård (about 16.000 inhabitants) in Malmö (about 245.000 inhabitants) with about 3.800 inhabitants. A concentration of the households that moved in to this area was located to a private real-estate. They moved into three nearby standing storey-buildings containing 150 apartments. The Gypsies were a large group of... (More)
This thesis has been taking a starting point from a micro-level that focuses social structures, ethnic segregation and processes of development as phenomena from different levels of perspectives. The research focuses on housing-conditions in the urban room and take a starting-point in 1992 when an increased number of immigrant households, depending on social welfare, moved into Herrgården (Manor-House), a narrow area within Rosengård (about 16.000 inhabitants) in Malmö (about 245.000 inhabitants) with about 3.800 inhabitants. A concentration of the households that moved in to this area was located to a private real-estate. They moved into three nearby standing storey-buildings containing 150 apartments. The Gypsies were a large group of the total number of tenants, the authorities together with the massmedia therefore named the real-estate as "Gypsygarden". In this work the formal name has been transformed to the time of the fieldwork (1994-1996) Gypsies started to move out in favour of the Arabic households. It developed an ethnically based concurrence in the neighbourhood which revealed a social order based on ethnicity. With a little help from the representatives from the pu blic sphere, some of the tenants have been able to take the positions as ethnical entrepreneurs. The legitimacy of their vertical positions is built up by ethnicity as a picture of homogeneity combined with deep differences to the majority and other minority-groups, which is an operating base for the ethnical entrepreneurs. They should be diverged from the group of people that could be named ethnical diplomats which take their positions in a horizontal plane. These positions is taking its places is a social order based on ethnicity that includes and excludes the surrounding populations, which is not judged by their own references or according to the references used by other minority-groups. It is a paradox that the social order emerges from the Swedish population, who are excluded by their absence and only being represented by the institutionalised forms of social life. (Less)
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author
supervisor
opponent
  • Olsson, Sören, Gothenburg University
organization
alternative title
The Development of Social Structures in a Gypsy Settlement
publishing date
type
Thesis
publication status
published
subject
keywords
gentrification, ethnicity, social order, gypsy, social structures, ethnic segregation, minorities, Sociala strukturer
in
Lund Dissertations in Sociology
issue
22
pages
294 pages
publisher
Department of Sociology, Lund University
defense location
Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5H, Lund
defense date
1998-05-07 10:15:00
external identifiers
  • other:ISRN: LUSAGD/SASO--98/1115--SE
ISSN
1102-4712
ISBN
91-89078-33-0
language
Swedish
LU publication?
yes
id
83991130-8cda-4800-a1a8-a2276007c331 (old id 18786)
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2016-04-01 16:52:21
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  abstract     = {{This thesis has been taking a starting point from a micro-level that focuses social structures, ethnic segregation and processes of development as phenomena from different levels of perspectives. The research focuses on housing-conditions in the urban room and take a starting-point in 1992 when an increased number of immigrant households, depending on social welfare, moved into Herrgården (Manor-House), a narrow area within Rosengård (about 16.000 inhabitants) in Malmö (about 245.000 inhabitants) with about 3.800 inhabitants. A concentration of the households that moved in to this area was located to a private real-estate. They moved into three nearby standing storey-buildings containing 150 apartments. The Gypsies were a large group of the total number of tenants, the authorities together with the massmedia therefore named the real-estate as "Gypsygarden". In this work the formal name has been transformed to the time of the fieldwork (1994-1996) Gypsies started to move out in favour of the Arabic households. It developed an ethnically based concurrence in the neighbourhood which revealed a social order based on ethnicity. With a little help from the representatives from the pu blic sphere, some of the tenants have been able to take the positions as ethnical entrepreneurs. The legitimacy of their vertical positions is built up by ethnicity as a picture of homogeneity combined with deep differences to the majority and other minority-groups, which is an operating base for the ethnical entrepreneurs. They should be diverged from the group of people that could be named ethnical diplomats which take their positions in a horizontal plane. These positions is taking its places is a social order based on ethnicity that includes and excludes the surrounding populations, which is not judged by their own references or according to the references used by other minority-groups. It is a paradox that the social order emerges from the Swedish population, who are excluded by their absence and only being represented by the institutionalised forms of social life.}},
  author       = {{Popoola, Margareta}},
  isbn         = {{91-89078-33-0}},
  issn         = {{1102-4712}},
  keywords     = {{gentrification; ethnicity; social order; gypsy; social structures; ethnic segregation; minorities; Sociala strukturer}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  number       = {{22}},
  publisher    = {{Department of Sociology, Lund University}},
  school       = {{Lund University}},
  series       = {{Lund Dissertations in Sociology}},
  title        = {{Det sociala spelet om Romano Platso}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/4805540/2173796.pdf}},
  year         = {{1998}},
}