Surgical healthcare interventions after female genital mutilation/cuting – a review of the evidence
In this review, we aim to offer an overview of documented effects of surgical healthcare interventions after FGM/C, from the perspectives of both healthcare providers (HCPs) performing such interventions and the women receiving them.
Young people in honour-based contexts: negotiations and reasoning on the obligation to report concern among school staff in Sweden
This article examines the questions; How do school staff reason on their legal responsibilities in relation to reporting children and young people with a migrant background who are exposed to, or suspected victims of, HBV? What specific dilemmas can be identified in such situations?
Honor killing as a dark side of modernity: prevalence, common discourses, and a critical view
Honor killing is a serious social problem in some countries that is yet to be adequately explained and addressed. We start with an overview of the conceptualization of this phenomenon and review its global prevalence. We argue that honor killing cannot be fully explained by focusing only on religion and sexism.
Pragmatic, pious and pissed off: young Muslim girls managing conflicting sexual norms and social control
In this study, we explore how ethnic minority Muslim girls in Norway manage social control as an everyday experience within a political context where minority communities are portrayed as performing excessive control.
Perception and barriers: reporting female genital mutilation
The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptions of and barriers to reporting female genital mutilation (FGM) by victims and survivors of FGM to the police in England and Wales.
Socioekonomisk segregation och hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck: Återrapportering av regeringsuppdrag DELMOS
Delegationen mot segregations (Delmos) redovisning av regeringsuppdraget om att koppla samman den socioekonomiska segregationens konsekvenser med hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck. Redovisningen innehåller bidrag från olika forskare på området såsom ”Segregationens betydelse för hedersnormer samt för hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck” av Rúna í Baianstovu och Emmie Särnstedt Gramnaes, Örebro Universitet och ”Hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck – […]
The demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities: findings from a national database
The purpose of this study is to compare the UK demographics of forced marriage of people with learning disabilities and people without learning disabilities to inform effective safeguarding practice.
That’s how we were raised: Perpetrator perspectives in relation to legislative changes targeting honour related violence in Sweden
The purpose of this article is to mirror the Swedish legal and discursive framework against the perspective of the perpetrators. While we discuss findings with relevance for practitioners, particularly in the light of recent legislative changes, our main focus is set on subjective understandings of honour crimes. In particular, questions about the perpetrators’ norms and […]
Rörelser i gränslandet – om komplexa hedersnormer och samhälleliga markeringar
Avhandlingen bygger på två separata delstudier förenade av den övergripande tematiken hedersnormer. Genom avhandlingen belyses att hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck förvisso är en allvarlig problematik som behöver mötas av insatser på många olika nivåer, men att det är fråga om ett komplext fenomen som innebär en utmaning för många olika verksamheter vad gäller både förståelse […]
A woman’s honor tumbles down on all of us in the family, but a man’s honor is only his”: young women’s experiences of patriarchal chastity norms (DiVA)
In this qualitative study we explored how young women living in Sweden with ethnic and cultural roots in the Middle East and East Africa comply with or resist so-called honour norms and how they perceive that these norms affect their living conditions.