Model Minority and Honorary White? Structural and Individual Accounts on Being Asian in Sweden

Sayaka Osanami Törngren (), Nahikari Irastorza () and Aliaksei Kazlou ()
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Sayaka Osanami Törngren: Malmö University
Nahikari Irastorza: Malmö University
Aliaksei Kazlou: Linköping University

Chapter Chapter 12 in Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World, 2023, pp 315-342 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter gives an overview of the socioeconomic situation of Asian immigrants, and their decedents, in Sweden. With the steady growth in the number of immigrants from Asian countries to Sweden since the 1970s, Asians are becoming increasingly visible among the Swedish population. However, they are rarely represented in the public, political, and academic discussions. As a first step to tackle the “narrative scarcity” (Lee and Ramakrishnan, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 7 (2):, 1–20, 2021), we use register data to describe the educational position and employment situation of the 10 largest East, South and Southeast Asian groups in Sweden, in comparison to non-Asian immigrant groups. We found differences based on the regions of origin: East Asian groups are highly educated but have lower employment rates. Once employed, they work in highly skilled occupations. Southeast Asians have lower education and, therefore, are underrepresented in highly skilled jobs but have high employment rates. South Asians stand between these two groups.

Keywords: Asians; Immigrants; Socioeconomic position; Educational attainment; Employment; Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19153-4_12

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