Queer refugees in Sweden: responding to vulnerabilities
(2021) MRSM15 20221Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- Academic research on a global level and somewhat in Sweden has addressed the risks queer refugees face, uncovering vulnerabilities, their responses, and views on the agency. Though they left open questions about how much queer refugees can or can not respond to their vulnerabilities, how is this correlated to their agency, and what is the intersectionality of their experiences. This research aims to answer these questions concerning queer refugees in Sweden. A starting point is identifying the risks causing vulnerabilities and responses of queer refugees by employing Göttsche's theory on vulnerability as an analysis tool. This is achieved by life history interviews with queer refugees and ethnographical observations conducted in Sweden. To... (More)
- Academic research on a global level and somewhat in Sweden has addressed the risks queer refugees face, uncovering vulnerabilities, their responses, and views on the agency. Though they left open questions about how much queer refugees can or can not respond to their vulnerabilities, how is this correlated to their agency, and what is the intersectionality of their experiences. This research aims to answer these questions concerning queer refugees in Sweden. A starting point is identifying the risks causing vulnerabilities and responses of queer refugees by employing Göttsche's theory on vulnerability as an analysis tool. This is achieved by life history interviews with queer refugees and ethnographical observations conducted in Sweden. To answer the question of how much queer refugees can respond to their vulnerabilities requires a theory of social navigation and theory of agency that explains the queer refugees' responses to their vulnerabilities. The theory of queer intersectionality uncovers the intersection of queer and refugee identity together with nationality, race, and specificity of identities (gay cis man and non-binary, trans person). This research detects a range of risks causing vulnerabilities, uncovers vulnerabilities, how much queer refugees can respond, and what that says about their agency as well as intersectional experiences of queer refugees in Sweden. The reasoning for using the term queer and ethical considerations as highly important aspects of this research are addressed in depth. (Less)
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- author
- Ribaric, Mario LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Examining the risks causing vulnerabilities, responses to vulnerabilities, agency, and intersectionality
- course
- MRSM15 20221
- year
- 2021
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- queer refugees, Sweden, risks for queer refugees, queer refugee vulnerability, responding to vulnerability, queer refugee agency, queer refugee intersectionality
- language
- English
- id
- 9101391
- date added to LUP
- 2023-01-25 13:39:39
- date last changed
- 2023-01-25 13:39:39
@misc{9101391,
abstract = {{Academic research on a global level and somewhat in Sweden has addressed the risks queer refugees face, uncovering vulnerabilities, their responses, and views on the agency. Though they left open questions about how much queer refugees can or can not respond to their vulnerabilities, how is this correlated to their agency, and what is the intersectionality of their experiences. This research aims to answer these questions concerning queer refugees in Sweden. A starting point is identifying the risks causing vulnerabilities and responses of queer refugees by employing Göttsche's theory on vulnerability as an analysis tool. This is achieved by life history interviews with queer refugees and ethnographical observations conducted in Sweden. To answer the question of how much queer refugees can respond to their vulnerabilities requires a theory of social navigation and theory of agency that explains the queer refugees' responses to their vulnerabilities. The theory of queer intersectionality uncovers the intersection of queer and refugee identity together with nationality, race, and specificity of identities (gay cis man and non-binary, trans person). This research detects a range of risks causing vulnerabilities, uncovers vulnerabilities, how much queer refugees can respond, and what that says about their agency as well as intersectional experiences of queer refugees in Sweden. The reasoning for using the term queer and ethical considerations as highly important aspects of this research are addressed in depth.}},
author = {{Ribaric, Mario}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Queer refugees in Sweden: responding to vulnerabilities}},
year = {{2021}},
}