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Model Minority and Honorary White? Structural and Individual Accounts on Being Asian in Sweden
Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Dept. of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0137-5528
Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Dept. of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4498-1798
Linköping University, Department of Management and Engineering, Business Administration. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1696-5416
2023 (English)In: Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World: Socioeconomic Opportunities and Challenges, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, p. 315-342Chapter in book (Refereed)
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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.

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Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. p. 315-342
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-211779DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19153-4_12Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85169411359Libris ID: 3l4bnpcr1c4d2m4rISBN: 9783031191527 (print)ISBN: 9783031191534 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-211779DiVA, id: diva2:1939254
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