While literature on memory and dictatorship in Latin America is extensive and narratives departing fromthe memories of children are evolving, the (gendered) intergenerational processes at the core of theexperience of military terror, from the specific location of the diaspora, have so far been marginal in bothresearch and in public debates. What is the language through which collective experiences of violence andpolitical persecution are told to the next generation in diaspora contexts? What does it mean to articulatenarratives from the dictatorship in Chile with memories emerging from the diaspora located in Sweden?This understanding is a vital point of departure in our study of young female adults whose parents came toSweden after the Pinochet military takeover, a group that we here refer to as the daughters of the Chileandiaspora in Sweden

This article analyses the patterns in the increase in precarious employment in Swedish retail during the period 1990–2019. As expected, class, gender, age and migrant background are decisive for unequal working conditions. However, the study also finds a polarisation of work contracts, displaying class differences and an increase in non-standard contracts among blue-collar workers, and that conditions have become more difficult for younger workers. Although female workers still have lower incomes and more insecure conditions than other groups, the findings show a masculinisation trend among precarious workers. The increases in inequality are due not primarily to lower hourly wages, but to larger numbers of precarious contracts. During the last decade of the period, there was a sharp increase in the percentage of people on sick leave due to stress and mental disorders. Although this increase is general, precarious workers have more diagnoses of mental disorders, in both the short and long term.

The presence of Swedish names in the Patagonian landscapes reveals early connections between Chile and Sweden that call for further exploration. Taking as its starting point the travelogues of the Swedish explorer Otto Nordenskjöld who visited these regions at the end of the 19th century, this article analyzes the nature of these connections from a postcolonial perspective, emphasizing the author’s academic tradition and his position in the geopolitics of knowledge. From this point of view, it is argued that the Nordenskjöld expedition and his account of this region are inscribed in a domination project that not only include the (re)naming of places and the erasure of ancestral memories, but is also closely connected to the taxonomist tradition of scientific racism in Sweden. The collection of human remains and the appropriation of indigenous artefacts to be exhibited, examined and commercialized as racialized items in Sweden highlight problematic linkages between the expedition of Nordenskjöld and the colonization of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego

La presencia de nombres suecos en los paisajes de la Patagonia nos habla de tempranas conexiones entre Chile y Suecia que, hasta el momento, no han sido suficientemente estudiadas. Tomando como punto de partida el relato de viaje del explorador sueco Otto Nordenskjöld, quien recorrió esas regiones a fines del siglo XIX, este artículo analiza desde una perspectiva postcolonial el carácter de esas conexiones enfatizando la tradición académica del autor y su posicionamiento en la geopolítica del conocimiento. A partir de esta mirada, se sostiene que la expedición de Nordenskjöld y su relato sobre la Patagonia forma parte de un proyecto de dominación que no solamente incluye el (re)nombramiento de lugares y la borradura de memorias ancestrales, sino que se articula con la tradición taxonomista del racismo científico en Suecia. La recolección de osamentas humanas y la apropiación de enseres domésticos para ser exhibidos, estudiados o comercializados como objetos racializados en Suecia exponen la opacidad de los lazos que unen la expedición de Nordenskjöld con la colonización de la Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego. 

The starting point in this chapter is the discrepancy between far-reaching gender policies in the workplace and persistent expressions of gender violence and work-related ill health in Sweden. Based on intersectional perspectives and inspired by social reproduction theories, the analysis focuses on the different ways that workplace violence depletes women’s capacity to replenish themselves and their capacity to deal with everyday life. Testimonies from different workplaces suggest the need for analysis that goes beyond individual acts and organisational management practices and also problematises how workplace violence depletes female workers’ capacity to live sustainable lives. A central argument is that workplace violence must be approached not solely as a failure of gender policies but rather as an expression of structural and intertwined hierarchies of power that shape subordinate and vulnerable positions along lines of gender, class, sexuality and national belonging. Moreover, to grasp the consequences of this violence it is necessary to transcend traditional boundaries between working life and private life and explore how the lack of replenishment after female workers’ experiences of violence is perceived, transmitted and suffered in their affective and social life.

This article explores how young women born in Sweden, or arriving in Sweden as toddlers, who belong to the Latin American diaspora give meaning to and act on their experiences of being the daughters of migrant mothers, whose political activism shapes their views and practices of mothering and migration. The analysis is inspired by feminist/antiracist methodologies and consists of eight in-depth interviews with young adult women, all of them daughters of political refugees who came to Sweden to escape persecution by the military dictatorships in Latin America in the late 1970s. The interviews are combined with two focus groups that took place in the two largest Swedish cities. The category we will bring to light is that of the daughters; adults now, aged between thirty and forty-five (six of them mothers themselves). The central question in this article is what perceptions of mothering can be articulated from the perspective of daughters of Latin American migrant mothers, in a context where memories of political persecution and exile and experiences of institutional and everyday racism shape the conditions of motherwork for both the migrant mothers and their daughters.

Images of migrant mothers have been a powerful marker for otherness in discourses of gender, migration and racialisation in Sweden. These women are often described as a problematic group in official discourses on labour-market policy, social welfare and gender equality. Taking as its point of departure the belief that knowledge production constitutes a central arena for deploying relations of power, the purpose of this article is to explore how migrant women’s experiences of motherhood have been represented in the Swedish Government Official Reports (SOU). What conditions of (im)possibility for motherhood, everyday life and integration into Swedish society are expressed in these government reports? How is the position of migrant mothers related to working conditions, intergenerational transmissions and reproduction dilemmas? The article focuses on the years between 1970 and 2000, a period that was characterised by profound transformations in Swedish society expressed not only in changing migration regulations and new gendered divisions of labour but also in the emergence of racialised patterns of inequality in housing, the labour market and access to social welfare. In so doing, the article contributes from the perspective of economic history to contemporary debates on the nexus between migration and racialisation in postcolonial societies.

This article examines how intersectional perspectives can contribute to a deeperunderstanding of the operations of power in a context of sanitary crisis whiledelivering a reflection on the theoretical premises and political potential of theseperspectives in the historic situation we are experiencing. The central argumentis that intersectional approaches not only help us understand the differentiatingimpact of sanitary measures on the structural inequalities that construct the so-cial order, but they also allow us to identify how this order can be transgressed,resisted and negotiated in a crisis situation

Market adaptation, fragmentation and precariousness have been widely documented as problematic features of knowledge production processes in the university. This article follows an undercurrent of critical scholarship to explore how paths of resistance can be opened up by researching otherwise. The article builds on autoethnographic notes from a collective and non-funded research project aimed at gathering in situ narratives from people who experienced the 2013 Stockholm Riots. The research strategy behind this project, its organization as well as its results and reception, is here used as a point of departure to scrutinize the conditions of the possibility of critical knowledge production. The article draws attention to a critical place for doing research – in the cracks of the university – which arguably complicates the academic–public divide and keeps open discursive spaces during troubling moments of closure

Intersectional studies are expanding and generating vital and much-needed theoretical debate in the discipline of feminist/gender studies. The aim of this article is to contribute to the debate through a critical reflection over the process of translation through which the concept has been introduced, interpreted and acted upon in Swedish gender studies. The purpose is also to bridge the concept of intersectionality and the notion of scholarships of hope, searching for forms of scholarly production that will fruitfully articulate academic knowledge with a political vision. The analysis acknowledges the relevance of an intersectional approach to understanding (and acting upon) the operations of power and the precarisation of life in these dangerous times of global exploitation and the multiplication of borders.