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Blatte - en etnicitet? Om ungdomars med utländsk bakgrund syn på sin etnicitet

På svenska

Author

  • Madeleine Romero

Summary, in English

Immigrants and children of immigrants are statistically lumped together into a category of "person with foreign background". Blatte is a degrading and violating word when directed at immigrants by Swedes. The aim of my essay was to test to what extent the Swedish term "blatte" could be qualified as an ethnicity in the sense that young people with foreign background born between 1981 and 1984 living in a neighborhood with a high population of people with foreign backgrounds have another ethnicity, besides the Swedish and the "home country ethnicity" to find themselves and their identity in.

My method consisted of interviewing six people between the ages of 21 and 24 with different ethnic backgrounds living in a limited area of Malmö, Sweden´s third biggest city. I tested my hypothesis of these people having a third ethnicity to relate to against three schools and from two out of three schools defending my hypothesis, my result is that blatte can not fully be seen as an ethnicity but definitely shows tendencies of becoming one in the future.

Publishing year

2005

Language

Swedish

Document type

Student publication for Bachelor's degree

Topic

  • Social Sciences
  • Law and Political Science

Keywords

  • socialt arbete
  • etnicitet
  • invandrarungdomar
  • blatte
  • Social changes, theory of social work
  • Sociala förändringar, teorier om socialt arbete
  • Social problems and welfare, national insurance
  • Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring

Supervisor

  • Lars B Ohlsson