This paper addresses inclusive tourism in multicultural societies by exploring the domestic tourism experiences of first-generation Italian and Chinese immigrants in Sweden within the context of visiting friends and relatives (VFR) tourism practices and activities. Our results highlight the complex interplay of personal social networks and the hosts' positionality on VFR experiences and tourism dynamics. We stress the importance of the embeddedness of personal social networks in the host country itself, as well as the immigrant host being local, both of which are crucial to tourist mobility and inclusive tourism experiences. How local the host feels, and how local their network is, changes tourism practices, especially when the local network includes native members. Moreover, we observe how forced immobility during the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased exploration of local places. These observations point to the importance of tourism actors engaging with the wider society and non-tourism industries to co-create inclusivity and provide information and possibilities to engage with different places. The latter can then be used and enjoyed not only in immigrants' daily lives but also through VFR to create further intercultural exchanges.

Major sporting events (MSEs) have been used by governments to improve the image of cities and nations, and to attract tourists. In the wake of criticism of how global MSEs handle human-rights issues, governments are pressured to rethink how these events are organised and branded. Developing and employing an analytical framework based on inclusive place branding and pathways to progressive human-rights outcomes, this study explores how and to whom inclusiveness is communicated in five Olympic Games candidate files. A quantitative content analysis is performed using keywords related to inclusiveness and three characteristics of inclusiveness are analysed qualitatively: democratic representation, inclusive participation, and committed transformation. The findings show that three of the candidate files predominantly belong to the traditional place branding paradigm through their focus on external stakeholders, while two have adopted a more inclusive place branding strategy and put emphasis on internal stakeholders. The analytical framework introduced in this study can be useful for both researchers and practitioners – such as prospective hosts of MSEs and other events – as a conceptual tool to analyse and develop inclusiveness in major events.

‘Despite the rapid growth of the non-White, foreign-born population and the number of mixed couples, intermarriage remains to be an underexplored field of research in Sweden. The scarce literature on intermarriage and well-being has been focused on specific negative consequences of having poor mental health conditions. This chapter provides an overview of the state of the art of the literature on intermarriage and mental health in Sweden. It discusses how the societal-historical context and, more specifically, attitudes towards intermarriage and differences in cultural norms might affect the well-being of people who marry exogamously. We also report on the responses to nine questions from the self-administered Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) that we asked among the native-born population as part of a survey study on refugee-local residents’ relationships conducted in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. Our findings do not support previous studies associating intermarriage with poorer mental health for native-born Swedes, while it shows a clear difference in the mental health of married versus single people. The well-being of intermarried couples in Sweden should be further explored not simply as subjective experiences but as the experiences of living together, acceptance of diversity, and social cohesion of increasingly diverse societies.

This chapter provides a general overview of intercultural (international) relationships and marriages in Japan and reviews existing research available on mental health and well-being of the foreign wives married to Japanese men. We also include our own analysis of the “Survey of Foreign Nationals on Life and Work” conducted in 2018. Previous studies have emphasized the difficulties and problems of marital relations; however, our data show that marriage to a Japanese person, if anything, promotes, or at least does not worsen, the social inclusion of immigrants and their subjective well-being and mental health. There is still limited research on mental health of internationally married couples in Japan, and there is a need for further research that holistically examines individual characteristics and their impact on the sense of belonging, mental health, and well-being.

This article explores the relational, embodied, and affective dimensions of anti-racist pedagogy through a reflexive dialogue between two racialised educators working within Euro-Western academic institutions in Canada and Sweden. Grounded in our everyday teaching encounters, we examine how our politicised bodies are read, disciplined, and contested in the classroom, and how these dynamics shape our relationships with students, our pedagogical choices, and the emotional labor of anti-racist teaching. Through co-theorizing dialogue as both method and praxis, we reflect on navigating risk, institutional precarity, and racialised expectations, while also practicing love, care, and calling-in as forms of resistance and survivance. Moving beyond individualised accounts of anti-racist teaching, we argue that relational reflexivity can cultivate accountability, collective meaning-making, and transformative learning spaces. This paper contributes to anti-racist praxis by offering grounded insights into how educators negotiate discomfort, vulnerability, and power while fostering healing, solidarity, and liberatory possibilities in the classroom.

The multiracial population has grown substantially across the Global North, with Sweden having one of the largest per capita mixed populations worldwide. Despite this demographic shift, mental healthcare practitioners are often unprepared to address the complex experiences of mixed individuals, who navigate ambiguous racial and ethnic spaces that challenge traditional monolithic categories. We here include transracial adoptees as part of the mixed population, recognizing their unique experiences of racialized in-betweenness. Historical narratives have long pathologized mixed individuals through harmful stereotypes such as the "tragic mulatto" and "marginal man", portraying them as inherently maladjusted. Contemporary research presents mixed findings regarding mental health outcomes in multiracial populations, with some studies reporting higher rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation, while others find no substantial differences compared to monoracial groups. This article argues for a more nuanced, person-centered approach to understanding mixed identity in healthcare and foregrounds the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) as a valuable clinical instrument. The ethnographic framework of the CFI enables exploration of complex identity negotiations, experiences of racism and discrimination, and available resources without reinforcing deficit perspectives. By fostering culturally attuned practices, mental healthcare can better serve an increasingly diverse society and address the multilayered experiences of multiracial individuals.

This article tackles the scarcity of knowledge on Asian immigrants in Sweden by examining the employment level among immigrants from nine Asian countries of origin (Japan, China, South Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan) that comprise 90 percent of the Asian population in Sweden, in relation to the native majority Swedes and other immigrants. Our analysis confirms studies from other contexts that show complexity and heterogeneity among Asian immigrants and their segmented experiences. The results also show similar and differentiated patterns of employment integration for Asian immigrants compared to other immigrants, specifically related to their gender and countries of origin.

INTRODUCTION: A large body of research has established a consensus that racial discrimination in CV screening occurs and persists. Nevertheless, we still know very little about how recruiters look at the CV and how this is connected to the discriminatory patterns. This article examines the way recruiters view and select CVs and how they reason about their CV selection choices, as a first step in unpacking the patterns of hiring discrimination. Specifically, we explore how race and ethnicity signaled through the CV matter, and how recruiters reason about the choices they make.

METHODS: We recorded data from 40 respondents (20 pairs) who are real-life recruiters with experiences in recruitment of diverse employees in three large Swedish-based firms in the finance and retail sector in two large cities. The participating firms all value diversity, equity and inclusion in their recruitment. Their task was to individually rate 10 fictious CVs where race (signaled by face image) and ethnicity (signaled by name) were systematically manipulated, select the top three candidates, and then discuss their choices in pairs to decide on a single top candidate. We examined whether respondents' choices were associated with the parts of the CV they looked at, and how they reasoned and justified their choices through dialog.

RESULTS: Our results show that non-White CVs were rated higher than White CVs. While we do not observe any statistically significant differences in the ratings between different racial groups, we see a statistically significant preference for Chinese over Iraqi names. There were no significant differences in time spent looking at the CV across different racial groups, but respondents looked longer at Polish names compared to Swedish names when presented next to a White face. The dialog data reveal how respondents assess different CVs by making assumptions about the candidates' job and organizational fit through limited information on the CVs, especially when the qualifications of the candidates are evaluated to be equal.