Seeing the wood and the trees. Assessing Swedish Nature-Based Integration utilising the theory of socio-cultural viability

IF 1.3 Q2 GEOGRAPHY
B. Singleton
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Migration is a prominent topic in many European societies, spawning numerous initiatives aiming to help 'integrate' newcomers. One subsection of these initiatives in Nordic countries is 'Nature-Based Integration' (NBI). Varied in scope, NBI involve activities where newcomers engage in activities in local natural environments. This article analyses NBI in Orebro County, central Sweden. It utilises the Mary Douglas derived theory of socio-cultural viability (cultural theory) in order to examine the group dynamics and related narratives found within observed activities. Utilising cultural theory's fourfold typology of social solidarities, the NBI observed were characterised as a combination of egalitarianism and hierarchy, with the other two, individualism and fatalism, considerably less prominent. This has consequences for the relevance of NBI to newcomers' lives – the initiatives' 'success' as far as participants are concerned will relate to whether NBI compliment or conflict with institutional narratives in the other, much larger, parts of their lives. The collected data suggest that narratives of individualism are arguably not as prominent in NBI as in the lives of newcomers and Swedes using nature. This article thus represents a first step in understanding NBI's impact in the complex situations newcomers find themselves.
看着树林和树木。利用社会文化可行性理论评估瑞典基于自然的整合
移民是许多欧洲社会的一个突出话题,催生了许多旨在帮助“融入”新移民的举措。北欧国家这些举措的一个分支是“基于自然的整合”(NBI)。在不同的范围内,NBI涉及新来者在当地自然环境中从事活动的活动。本文分析了瑞典中部厄勒布罗县的NBI。它利用玛丽道格拉斯衍生的社会文化可行性理论(文化理论)来研究观察到的活动中发现的群体动态和相关叙述。利用文化理论的社会团结的四重类型,NBI观察到的特征是平等主义和等级制度的结合,另外两个,个人主义和宿命论,相对不那么突出。这对NBI与新来者生活的相关性产生了影响——就参与者而言,倡议的“成功”将与NBI是否与他们生活中其他更大的部分的制度叙述相恭维或冲突有关。收集到的数据表明,个人主义的叙述在NBI中可能不如在新移民和利用自然的瑞典人的生活中那么突出。因此,本文代表了理解NBI在新手发现自己的复杂情况下的影响的第一步。
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