Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction: Postcolonial ism and the Nordic Models of Welfare and Gender Diana Mulinari Suvi Keskinen Sari Irni Salla Tuori 1
Part 1 Postcolonial Histories/Postcolonial Presents
2 Colonial Complicity: The 'Postcolonial' in a Nordic Context Ulla Vuorela 19
3 The Nordic Colonial Mind Mai Palmberg 35
4 The Flipside of my Passport: Myths of Origin and Genealogy of White Supremacy in the Mediated Social Genetic Imaginary Bolette B. Blaagaard 51
5 The Promise of the 'Nordic' and its Reality in the South: The Experiences of Mexican Workers as Members of the 'Volvo Family' Diana Mulinari Nora Räthzel 67
6 Stranger or Family Member? Reproducing Postcolonial Power Relations Johanna Latvala 85
7 Historical Legacies and Neo-colonial Forms of Power? A Postcolonial Reading of the Bosnian Diaspora Laura Huttunen 101
Part 2 Welfare State and its 'Others'
8 When Racism Becomes Individualised: Experiences of Racialisation among Adult Adoptees and Adoptive Parents of Sweden Tobias Hübinette Carina Tigervall 119
9 Contradicting the 'Prostitution Stigma': Narratives of Russian Migrant Women Living in Norway Jana Sverdljuk 137
10 Postcolonial and Queer Readings of 'Migrant Families' in the Context of Multicultural Work Salla Tuori 155
11 'Experience is a National Asset': A Postcolonial Reading of Ageing in the Labour Market Sari Irni 171
12 Licorice Boys and Female Coffee Beans: Representations of Colonial Complicity in Finnish Visual Culture Leena-Maija Rossi 189
Part 3 Doing Nation and Gender: The Civilising Mission 'At Home'
13 Guiding Migrants to the Realm of Gender Equality Jaana Vuori 207
14 Institutional Nationalism and Orientalized Others in Parental Education Nanna Brink Larsen 225
15 Whose Feminism? Whose Emancipation? Chia-Ling Yang 241
16 'Honour-Related Violence' and Nordic Nation-Building Suvi Keskinen 257
Index 273