Neither victim nor fetish : ‘Asian’ women and the effects of racialization in the Swedish context

• Main Author: Hooi, Mavis
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Linköpings universitet, REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälle 2018
• Subjects: racialization; racism; Asian women; Sweden; Western context; Nordic context; panethnicity; stereotypes; visuality; coercive mimeticism; epistemic injustice; narratives; Critical Race Theory; intersectionality; everyday racism; structural racism; rasifiering; rasism; asiatiska kvinnor; Sverige; västerländsk kontext; nordisk kontext; panetnicitet; stereotyper; visualitet; epistemisk orättvisa; kritisk rasteori; intersektionalitet; vardagsrasism; strukturell rasism; International Migration and Ethnic Relations; Internationell Migration och Etniska Relationer (IMER); Gender Studies; Genusstudier; Social Sciences Interdisciplinary; Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-157400

People who are racialized in Sweden as ‘Asian’—a panethnic category—come from different countries or ethnic backgrounds and yet, often face similar, gender-specific forms of discrimination which have a significant impact on their whole lives. This thesis centres women who are racialized as 'Asian', focusing on how their racialization affects, and is shaped by, their social, professional and intimate relationships, and their interactions with others—in particular, with white majority Swedes, but also other ethnic minorities. Against a broader context encompassing discourses concerning ‘Asians’ within Swedish media, art and culture, Swedish ‘non-racist’ exceptionalism and gender equality politics, the narratives of nine women are analysed through the lenses of the racializing processes of visuality and coercive mimeticism, and epistemic injustice.