Partnerships, Anti-Discrimination and the Role of Immigrant Associations

Abstract

The project focuses on the role of immigrant associations in combating discrimination. The project sets out from previous research indicating a need for a broader understanding of immigrant associations for the development of alternative strategies in education and the labor market, in order to advance the understanding of the conditions for partnerships between civil society, public and private sectors. The project examines partnership between public, private and voluntary actors through a qualitative study of Anti-Discrimination Agencies, (ADA) in Stockholm, run by immigrant associations. The efforts of the ADA to assist individuals who feel discriminated on the basis of gender, ethnic background etc., indicates the growing importance of ADA as actors in the field of social strategies for social inclusion. One of the preliminary findings indicates that activism among ADA as civil society organisations is based on delicate balancing between volunteer activism and adjustment to increasingly emphasized market exigency.

Keywords

Civil society, Discrimination, Social exclusion/inclusion, migrant association, anti-discrimination

Publications

Dahlstedt, M., Ålund, A. & Ålund, A. (2010). Villkorat partnerskap: Demokrati och social inkludering i relationer mellan bildningsförbund och föreningar bildade på etnisk grund. Dansk Sociologi, 21 [4], 75-94

Mesic, N. & Ålund, A. (2011). Asymmetric Partnership: Migrant Organisations, Trade Unions and the Equality Ombudsman. Revija za sociologiju, Vol. 41, No. 1: 51-76

Schierup, C-U. & Ålund, A. (2010). Beyond Liberal Pluralism: Migration and Politics of Exclusion in Europe. TheMES: Themes on Migration and Ethnic Studies: occasional papers and reprints, 32/2010, REMESO, Linköping University

Ålund, A. & Alinia, M. (2011). I skuggan av kulturella stereotypier: Perspektiv på forskning om genus, jämställdhet och etniska relationer i Sverige, Sociologisk Forskning, no. 2, 2011 (in press).

Mesic, N. and A. Ålund (2011) “Asymmetric Partnership; Migrant organisations, Trade unions and Equality Ombudsman”. Revija za sociologiju. Vol 41. No 1. pp.51-76.

Ålund, Aleksandra, Mesic Nedzad, Kings Lisa & Dahlstedt, Magnus (2013). Framing the mobilization of migrants in Sweden. Migration Letters. Sept 2013 Volume: 10, No: 3, pp. 277 – 287 ISSN: 1741-8984 & eISSN: 1741-8992