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Staging “Chileanness”: Ethnicity, illegal drug
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Social Work (SA).
2017 (English)In: Drugs: education prevention and policy, ISSN 0968-7637, E-ISSN 1465-3370, Vol. 24, no 3, p. 240-247Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Aim: Following a group of young men with Chilean background living in a Swedish territorially stigmatised area, the author analyses how the actors create, recreate and use ethnicity and on what structural grounds such creation is carried out. This analysis is done to provide a complex and socially constructed view of ethnicity. Method: Between 2003 and 2015, the author followed a group of 16 young men, born in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The fieldwork included interviews and participant observations in places that were important to the young men; the residential area where they lived in Sweden and the area in Chile that some of them visited during the time of the research and where they have their roots. Findings and conclusion: During childhood and adolescence, ethnic identification became a means to group identification. However, ethnic identity practiced in the street culture and the illegal economy cannot be seen as essential, but rather as something that is performed and staged in different situations, creating a sense of ‘‘Chileanness’’. Producing Chileanness helps combating emotions related to sorrow, to being poor and not feeling welcomed in the Swedish society. This ethnicity is fragile and intertwined with social class and gender.

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Taylor & Francis, 2017. Vol. 24, no 3, p. 240-247
Keywords [en]
Ethnography, illegal, economy, staged, ethnicity, drug dealing
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Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-4077DOI: 10.1080/09687637.2016.1264371ISI: 000399459600003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85009977092Local ID: 22226OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-4077DiVA, id: diva2:1400901
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2025-01-13Bibliographically approved

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