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Marginalised voices in the inclusive recruitment discourse: a dilemma of inclusion/exclusion in the (Swedish) police
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SourceEuropean journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults 9 (2018) 1, S. 61-77 ZDB
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ISSN2000-7426; 20007426
LanguageEnglish
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Abstract (English):Recruitment for diversity is part of a range of proactive strategies for overcoming occupational stereotyping in a number of professions, as well as addressing a history of discrimination against women and minority groups. One such campaign launched by the Swedish police involves ‘inclusive recruitment’. By analysing the discourse of inclusive recruitment and its subject positions in police student talk, this article shows how borders between people who are assigned different social categories are constructed, challenged and reinforced. Positive intentions in agendas towards diversity are problematised when minorities are ascribed as admitted on quotation, which places them in a subordinate and ‘risky position’ within an occupation and on less legitimate premises. A dilemma emerges between a call to represent minority groups and the risk of categorising them as ‘others’. In particular, voices of resistance from ethnic minority police women show how practices of exclusion could jeopardise efforts to achieve inclusion. (DIPF/Orig.)
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Date of publication07.06.2018
CitationWieslander, Malin: Marginalised voices in the inclusive recruitment discourse: a dilemma of inclusion/exclusion in the (Swedish) police - In: European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults 9 (2018) 1, S. 61-77 - URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-155317 - DOI: 10.25656/01:15531; 10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela9106
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