Youth and Social Exclusion in "Multicultural" Sweden

• Main Author: Aleksandra Ålund
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies 1998-12-01
• Series: Migracijske i Etniĉke Teme
• Subjects: youth; culture; identity; ethnicity; social exclusion; immigrants
• Online Access: http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/186965

The paper examines social exclusion of young people from an increasingly ethnically segmented labour market in Sweden. Discrimination of new ethnic minorities in the ethnically complex and socially charged environments of Stockholm, the author maintains, is hidden in a fog of stereotypical images of cultural differences. What is not usually recognised are social inequalities, and that the social struggle continues through the cultural. It is here, in the context of segregated living conditions, that not only new inclusive transethnic identities and composite cultural expressions but also new ethnic street corner fundamentalisms are emerging.