Each year a growing number of people leave their homes due to war, and becomes what is called a refugee. During their escape they are losing their security and also identity. When they arrive at a new country and receive the asylum, they need to construct and create a new identity to fit into society and they are facing a massive adjustment when it comes to the integration part. It can be seen as a complicated process for the refugees. The purpose of this study is to investigate identity issues in people with refugee background, with emphasis on spatial and geographical aspects. This essay is using a qualitative method, semi-structured interviews, where three people have been interviewed about their thoughts and feelings about this essays subject. The empirical data collected from these interviews has been analyzed by methods such as thematization and coding. This study has been conducted by a humanistic theoretical perspective, and by identity theories. The essays result showed that two of three of my respondents, who had both been former refugees, had felt included and excluded in the Swedish society and that they may have constructed their identities to become more Swedish, and both identified themselves with a Swedish- and their native nationality. The third respondent, who was a child to a former refugee, only identified herself as Swedish and has not constructed her identity and had already felt an includeness in the society. The two former refugees perceived that society identified them as immigrant according to their foreign backgrounds, but themselves only identified them by their nationalities. The third respondent did not consider to have been identified as an immigrant or as a child to a former refugee. Two respondents viewed their security to be placebased in Sweden and one of them saw place as a part of her identity. The geographical related experiences seems to have formed and create all of my respondents identities. Place and space have had different roles in the respondents identity creations.

Flickor med flyktingbakgrund är underrepresenterade inom svensk föreningsidrott. Samtidigt uppmärksammas det hur könsnormer tar sig uttryck inom idrotten. Både ledare och utövare förklarar att det finns outtalade, men ändå närvarande förväntningar på hur pojkar och flickor ”ska vara” och hur det kan påverka en individs idrottsdeltagande. Riksidrottsförbundet hävdar att idrotten måste utvecklas och förnyas för att fler ska känna sig välkomna och de fokuserar särskilt på flickor med flyktingbakgrund. Syftet med studien var därmed att undersöka idrottsledares upplevelser av att inkludera flickor med flyktingbakgrund i sina föreningar. I undersökningen används en kvalitativ ansats där det genomförts fyra fokusgruppintervjuer. Urvalet består av 21 värmländska idrottsledare som arbetat med inkludering. Resultatet visar att ledarna talar om flickor med flyktingbakgrund som en grupp med väldigt lite idrottserfarenhet. De menar därför att flickorna har sämre förutsättningar för att börja idrotta i Sverige jämfört med pojkar som har flyktingbakgrund. Ledarna förklarar också att flickorna sällan kommer till föreningen på egen hand. Det har därför varit en förutsättning att söka upp flickorna i den miljö de befunnit sig i för att sedan bjuda in dem till föreningen. Ledarna förklarar att majoriteten av flickorna med flyktingbakgrund föredrog att idrotta i särskilda tjejgrupper. Därmed har ledarna fått reflektera över hur deras verksamhet kan utvecklas och anpassas efter flickornas önskemål. Vidare beskriver ledarna hur deras eget bemötande spelat stor roll. Trots att det krävt ett extra engagemang så har mötet många gånger varit avgörande för att rekrytera flickor med flyktingbakgrund. / Girls with refugee backgrounds are underrepresented in Swedish association sports. At the same time, it is noted how gender norms are expressed in sport. Both leaders and active have stated that there are unspoken, yet present expectations of how boys and girls “should be” and how it may affect some individuals’ sport participation. The Swedish Sports Confederation believes that the sport must be developed and renewed so that even more people can feel welcome. They focus particularly on girls with refugee background. The purpose of this study was to examine the leaders’ experiences of including girls with refugee backgrounds in their associations. The study has a qualitative approach in which four focus group interviews were conducted. The selection consists of 21 leaders from the county of Värmland who has worked with inclusion of refugees in their associations. The result shows that leaders talk about girls with refugee backgrounds as a group with a lack of experience of sport. Therefore, they mean that girls have less prerequisites for start doing sports in Sweden than boys with refugee backgrounds. The leaders also explain that the girls rarely come to the associations on their own. It has therefore been a prerequisite to find the girls in their own environments and then invite them to the association. The leaders explain that most of the girls with refugee background preferred to exercise in special groups for girls. As a result, the leaders have been reflecting on how their sport can be developed and adapted to the girls wishes. Furthermore, the leaders describe how their own way of meeting the girls played a major role. Although it required extra commitment, the meeting has often been crucial for recruiting girls with refugee backgrounds. / Idrott och integration i Värmland

The purpose of this study was to interview seven preschool teachers' experiences of meeting refugee children in six Swedish preschools. We wanted to find out the conditions underlying the meeting between the preschool teachers' and the refugee children. From an intercultural perspective, we have investigated how preschool teachers', more or less, address the children in relation to their past experiences and cultural background. In this study, we have applied a hermeneutical approach as a method that has allowed us to interpret the preschool teachers' stories of this phenomenon; the meeting between preschool teachers' and refugee children. Based on these interpretations, we’ve acquired a result that shows that children with a refugee background are received in different ways in Swedish preschool. Secondly, our readings show that there is a variation in how the preschool teachers' choose to highlight the child's previous experiences or not. We can also see a difference in what is regarded as important in the reception of the children. There is a difference in how preschool teachers' meeting with refugee children is conditioned by how they relate to the child’s refugee status and cultural background. Our result shows that the conditions underlying the preschool teachers' meeting with the refugee children is either assimilation into existing preschool frameworks, or accommodation to the child’s present situation with regard to their cultural background.