Constructing the “Good Citizen”: Discourses of Social Inclusion in Swedish Civic Orientation

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Autor(a) principal: Bauer, Simon
Data de Publicação: 2023
Outros Autores: Milani, Tommaso M., von Brömssen, Kerstin, Spehar, Andrea
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i4.7060
Resumo: Sweden has long been described as a beacon of multiculturalism and generous access to citizenship, with integration policies that seek to offer free and equal access to the welfare state. In this article, we use the policy of Civic Orientation for Newly Arrived Migrants as a case with which to understand how migrants’ inclusion is discursively articulated and constructed by the different constituencies involved in interpreting the policy and organising and teaching the course. We do this by employing Foucault’s closely interrelated concepts of technology of self, political technology of individuals, and governmentality. With the help of critical discourse analysis, we illustrate how migrants’ inclusion is framed around an opposition between an idealised “good citizen” and a “target population” (Schneider & Ingram, 1993). In our analysis, we draw on individual interviews with 14 people involved in organising civic orientation and on classroom observations of six civic orientation courses. Firstly, we show how migrants are constructed as unknowing and in need of being fostered by the state. Secondly, we illustrate how social inclusion is presented as being dependent upon labour market participation, both in terms of finding work and in terms of behaving correctly in the workplace. Lastly, we show how migrant women are constructed as being problematically chained to the home and therefore needing to subject themselves to a specific political technology of self to be included.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Constructing the “Good Citizen”: Discourses of Social Inclusion in Swedish Civic Orientation
title Constructing the “Good Citizen”: Discourses of Social Inclusion in Swedish Civic Orientation
spellingShingle Constructing the “Good Citizen”: Discourses of Social Inclusion in Swedish Civic Orientation
Bauer, Simon
citizenship; civic orientation; critical discourse analysis; Foucault; migration
title_short Constructing the “Good Citizen”: Discourses of Social Inclusion in Swedish Civic Orientation
title_full Constructing the “Good Citizen”: Discourses of Social Inclusion in Swedish Civic Orientation
title_fullStr Constructing the “Good Citizen”: Discourses of Social Inclusion in Swedish Civic Orientation
title_full_unstemmed Constructing the “Good Citizen”: Discourses of Social Inclusion in Swedish Civic Orientation
title_sort Constructing the “Good Citizen”: Discourses of Social Inclusion in Swedish Civic Orientation
author Bauer, Simon
author_facet Bauer, Simon
Milani, Tommaso M.
von Brömssen, Kerstin
Spehar, Andrea
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von Brömssen, Kerstin
Spehar, Andrea
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Milani, Tommaso M.
von Brömssen, Kerstin
Spehar, Andrea
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv citizenship; civic orientation; critical discourse analysis; Foucault; migration
topic citizenship; civic orientation; critical discourse analysis; Foucault; migration
description Sweden has long been described as a beacon of multiculturalism and generous access to citizenship, with integration policies that seek to offer free and equal access to the welfare state. In this article, we use the policy of Civic Orientation for Newly Arrived Migrants as a case with which to understand how migrants’ inclusion is discursively articulated and constructed by the different constituencies involved in interpreting the policy and organising and teaching the course. We do this by employing Foucault’s closely interrelated concepts of technology of self, political technology of individuals, and governmentality. With the help of critical discourse analysis, we illustrate how migrants’ inclusion is framed around an opposition between an idealised “good citizen” and a “target population” (Schneider & Ingram, 1993). In our analysis, we draw on individual interviews with 14 people involved in organising civic orientation and on classroom observations of six civic orientation courses. Firstly, we show how migrants are constructed as unknowing and in need of being fostered by the state. Secondly, we illustrate how social inclusion is presented as being dependent upon labour market participation, both in terms of finding work and in terms of behaving correctly in the workplace. Lastly, we show how migrant women are constructed as being problematically chained to the home and therefore needing to subject themselves to a specific political technology of self to be included.
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