Perception of Racism and Experiences of Racial Discrimination against Black immigrants in Sweden.: Case Study: Cameroonians in Gothenburg
2020 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Sweden is one of Europe's fastest growing multiethnic countries because of high immigration rate (Runblom, 1994; Tawat, 2019). Many Africans over the last few decades have moved to Sweden for a better life. In a bid to live and feel like regular inhabitants within the new society, these immigrants face challenges, including various types of discriminations (Pettigrew and Meertens, 1995; Reskin, 2012; Wamala, Boström and Nyqvist, 2007). The main aim of the thesis is to study how Cameroonians immigrants in Gothenburg experience racism, and to what extent the racist actions and prejudices they experience are related to visual difference. Cameroonians that I have interviewed are "black," and as my study shows, it is in part due to this shared visual attribute that they say that they have experienced racism. Previous researches have explored racism and Afrophobia in Sweden but have not identified different forms of racisms according to Mile's and Blank's (2003) categorizations in regard to black immigrants in Sweden (Rex, 1983; Hübinette and Tigervall, 2009; Hansson, Näslund and Rasmussen, 2010). Using Miles' concept of racialization (Miles and Brown, 2003) and theories for measuring racial discrimination by Blank (2004), I identify different forms of racial discrimination as experienced by this group.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. , p. 56
Keywords [sv]
Racism, Racialization, Discrimination, Cameroonians
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-15329Local ID: EXS802OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-15329DiVA, id: diva2:1451257
Subject / course
Political science
Educational program
International Programme in Politics and Economics
Supervisors
Examiners
2020-07-212020-07-022020-07-21Bibliographically approved