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  • Guiden till Spaniensverige

    Diaspora, integration och transnationalitet bland svenska föreningar i södra Spanien

    Erik Olsson

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    Hur blir de svenska migranterna i södra Spanien en livsstilsdiaspora?
    Huvudaktören i denna bok är de stora nordiska sociala föreningarna i södra Spanien och de verksamheter de utvecklar för att främja svenskarnas sammanhållning. Studien visar att föreningarna går i spetsen för en diasporisk mobilisering av en svensk gemenskap. Detta görs genom att erbjuda de svenska migranterna sociala arenor, innehållsrika aktiviteter och service av olika slag. Föreningarna kan på så sätt underlätta migranternas förverkligande av sina livsstilsprojekt samtidigt som de också snitslar en väg in i Spaniensverige. Boken handlar om hur diasporagemenskap görs genom en mobilisering kring livsstilsprojektet där ålder, klass och transnationalitet är viktiga ingredienser.

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    "Guiden till Spaniensverige" (The Guide to Spanish-Sweden) is an ethnographic account on the mobilisation of a social community of Swedish migrants who otherwise belongs to the diverse networks of lifestyle migrants or resident tourists in Southern Spain. The book is based on interviews with people who are engaged in Scandinavian associations/clubs or in other ways involved in practices which are associated with a Swedish community in Costa Blanca and Costa del Sol, which are two main destinations for lifestyle migrants in Spain. In addition the analysis is based on the discursive material that the social clubs, and to some extent other organisations and networks, are using in the service to their members.

    The book demonstrates how the practices of the large Scandinavian social clubs, but also other organisations like the Swedish church and some of the business associations, are operating at the locus of an ethnic and transnationalised form of community-making. The offering of a home-like social arena with social and cultural activities are privileging the Swedish language and the Swedish origin. This study concludes that the social practices employed by the clubs are guiding potential members to a social space in which preferably ‘senior’ Swedish migrants meet, socialise, and, to some extent, also consume in ‘Swedish’. The book argues that the practices of the social clubs reveal the contours and infrastructure of a lifestyle diaspora in which a comfortable life in Spain – but in Swedish and with maintained relations with the Swedish society – is accentuated and given priority.

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    How to cite this book
    Olsson, E. 2018. Guiden till Spaniensverige: Diaspora, integration och transnationalitet bland svenska föreningar i södra Spanien. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bao
    Olsson, E., 2018. Guiden till Spaniensverige: Diaspora, integration och transnationalitet bland svenska föreningar i södra Spanien. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bao
    Olsson, E. Guiden till Spaniensverige: Diaspora, Integration Och Transnationalitet Bland Svenska Föreningar I Södra Spanien. Stockholm University Press, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bao
    Olsson, E. (2018). Guiden till Spaniensverige: Diaspora, integration och transnationalitet bland svenska föreningar i södra Spanien. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bao
    Olsson, Erik. 2018. Guiden till Spaniensverige: Diaspora, Integration Och Transnationalitet Bland Svenska Föreningar I Södra Spanien. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bao




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    Published on July 31, 2018

    Language

    Swedish

    Pages:

    196

    ISBN
    EPUB 978-91-7635-057-7
    Hardback 978-91-7635-059-1
    Mobi 978-91-7635-058-4
    PDF 978-91-7635-056-0

    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.16993/bao



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