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  • Mixed Race in Nordic Europe

    Numerous scholarly works have been published on the topic of multiraciality and mixed-race experiences in the United States and Great Britain. There has historically been limited research on Nordic Europe. These analyses seek to help further research on Nordic Europe in terms of critical mixed race studies.

  • Understanding Race in Sweden: The Racialisation and Deracialisation of Multiethnic and Multiracial Swedes

    The analysis illustrates interviewed mixed Swedes’ unique position in the racial hierarchy in Sweden and how fluid their racial experiences are. Their different experiences also show how understandings of white and non-white racial groups are formed through the processes of racialisation and deracialisation in Sweden.

  • Beyond being either-or: identification of multiracial and multiethnic Japanese

    Beyond being either-or: identification of multiracial and multiethnic Japanese Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 47, 2021 – Issue 4: Special Issue: Re-constructing Ways of Belonging: Cross-country Experiences of Multiethnic and Multiracial People pages 802-820 DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1654155 Sayaka Osanami Törngren Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden Yuna…

  • The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification

    This handbook provides a global study of the classification of mixed race and ethnicity at the state level, bringing together a diverse range of country case studies from around the world.

  • Beyond being either-or: identification of multiracial and multiethnic Japanese

    Based on interviews with 29 multiracial and multiethnic individuals residing in Japan, this article explores not only how multiracial and multiethnic Japanese identify themselves but also how they feel they are identified by others in society. The analysis shows that multiracial and multiethnic persons self-identify in a way that goes beyond either-or categories and the…

  • Attitudes toward interracial marriages and the role of interracial contacts in Sweden

    Attitudes toward interracial marriages and the role of interracial contacts in Sweden Ethnicities Volume 16, Number 4, August 2016 pages 568-588 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638400 Sayaka Osanami Törngren Malmo University, Sweden; Sophia University, Japan This paper examines attitudes toward interracial marriages and the relationship between the amount of prior interracial contact and attitudes in Sweden. The analysis…

  • Toward building a conceptual framework on intermarriage

    Toward building a conceptual framework on intermarriage Ethnicities Volume 16, Number 4, August 2016 pages 497-520 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638402 Sayaka Osanami Törngren Malmö University, Sweden; Sophia University, Japan Nahikari Irastorza, Marie Curie Research Fellow Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity, and Welfare Malmö University, Sweden Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent,…