The honor killing of Fadime Sahindal in 2002 sparked a debate in Swedish media about honor-related violence and oppression. As a professional social worker, it is important to have knowledge in the field to help young women who are exposed to honor-related violence and oppression. The aim of this study is to analyze the working methods and attitudes of social workers and their discretion in the work of honor-oppressed young women. The study is based on six qualitative interviews conducted with professional social workers. Through the interviews, the social workers' experiences, thoughts and opinions about the social service's way of working with honored young women were highlighted. The interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis and interpreted by the theory of honor and discretion. The results show that social workers do not have the right knowledge about honor problems and that they do not have the right tools to meet these young women who are exposed to violence and oppression. / <p>I samband med rådande situation (Covid-19) hölls presentationen via Zoom. </p>

Frågan om hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck fick sin livliga debatt i svensk politik i slutet av 1990-talet, efter hedersmordet på Sara år 1996 och Pela år 1992. Regeringen har betonat att samverkan mellan olika aktörer, myndigheter och ideella organisationer är en väldigt viktig faktor för framgång gällande att förebygga våld i nära relationer. Studiens syfte är att utifrån ett genusperspektiv undersöka den regionala samverkan i Västmanlands län gällande arbetet mot hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck. Detta leder oss till frågeställningarna; Vilka föreställningar förekommer i den regionala samverkan om maskulinitet och femininitet? Vilka hinder identifieras av olika aktörer inom arbetet mot hedersrelaterat våld ur ett genusperspektiv? Vilka möjliga implementeringsinsatser identifieras av aktörerna? Metodvalet för studien utgår från en kvalitativ forskningsintervju, där vi främst söker förståelse för världen från intervjupersonens synvinkel och upplevda erfarenheter, samt att intervjupersonen får uttrycka sig i egna ord. Våra resultat och analys påvisar, tillsammans med bekräftande teorier och tidigare forskning, att det krävs ökad kunskap kring pojkar och omedvetna föreställningar. Det krävs också en tydligare samverkansrutin med praktiskt metodstöd och ekonomiska resurser, där dessa två faktorer går hand i hand för att förstå problematiken, samt för att förhindra och förebygga hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck. Det går inte att utesluta det ena eller det andra, då varje aspekt kompletterar varandra och bidrar till effektiva förbättringar. / The issue of honor-related violence and repression contributed to a lively debate in Swedish politics in the late 1990's, after the honor killings of Sara in year 1996 and Pela in year 1992. The government has emphasized that collaboration between various actors, authorities and non-profit organizations are very important factors for sucess in preventing violence in close relationships. The purpose of the study is to investigate from a gender perspective the regional cooperation in Västmanland County regarding the work on honor-related violence and opression. The issue leads us to ask the following questions; What are the notions of masculinity and femininity that exist in this regional collaboration? Which obstacles identified by various actors in the work against honor-related violence or a gender perspective? What possible implementation efforts are identified by the actors? The method for this study is based on a qualitative research interview. Where we primarily seek an understanding of the world from the interviewer's point of view and experience, and that the interviewee is allowed to express themselves in their own words. The results and analysis show that together with confirmed theories and previous research it requires increased knowledge about boys and men's vulnerability, as well as men's and gender norms that exist together with unconscious notions. There is also a need for clearer collaboration routines with practical method support and financial resources. Where these two factors go hand in hand to understand the problem, and to prevent honor-related violence and oppression. It is not possible to exclude one or the other, as each aspect complements each other and the measure for effective improvement.

Syfte: syftet med denna undersökning är att undersöka om implementeringen av arbetet mot hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck i Västerås kommun kan anses vara ett fall om kollaborativ styrning. Samt vilka hinder identifieras i arbetet nit hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck. Metod: forskningsmetoden bygger på en fallstudie och kvalitativa forskningsintervjuer. Respondenterna representerar den offentliga sektor, ideella sektor och civilsamhället från Västerås kommun. Material: allt styrdokument som används i denna undersökning är hämtat från Västerås kommuns hemsida, om deras arbete mot hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck, samt intervjuer med respondenter från offentlig sektor, ideell sektor och civilsamhället i Västerås kommun. Sammanfattning: analysen av styrdokument och intervjuerna resulterade i att arbetssättet i Västerås kommun mot hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck tillämpas på kollaborativ styrning. Detta beror på att kommunen, tillsammans med andra sektorer, samarbetar med varandra för att nå gemensamma mål. Samarbetet präglas främst av IOP avtal med ideella organisationer som Here 4U i detta fall. Civilsamhället är dock inte inkluderat i verkligheten som det framgår i Västerås kommuns handlingsplan i arbetet mot hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck. Hinder som uppstår i kommuns arbete är främst brist på resurser och ekonomiskt stöd. Forskningen avslutas med en reflektion över metod delen och förslag på vidare forskning om hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck. / Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate whether the implementation of the work against honor-related violence and abuse in Vasteras municipality can be considered a case of collaborative governance. And What shortcomings arise in the work against honor-related violence and abuse. Method: The research is based on case study and qualitative research interviews, where the interviewees represent different representative from the public sector, non-profit sector the civil society in Vasteras. Material: All the material used in this research has been gathered from documents from Vasteras municipality website regarding their work against honor-related violence and abuse, as well as interviews with officials and staff from other sectors in the municipality. Conclusion: The analysis of governing documents and the interviews resulted in the case of Vasteras municipality being applied to collaborative governance. This is due the municipality, together with other sectors, collaborates with each other to achieve the goals. Collaboration is mainly character by the signing of IOP agreements with non-profit organization such as Here 4U in this case. Civil sector is not sufficiently included on reality as it appears in Vasteras action plan, lack of resources and financial support has been common responded for the interviewers. The research ends with a reflation on the method section and further research on honor-related violence and abuse. / Nej

The aim of this study is to capture the perception of Muslims in Sweden in regards to experiences of honor related oppression and violence. Additionally, particular focus is given to Muslims’ thoughts in Sweden on how they are portrayed in Swedish media reports of honor related oppression and violence. A qualitative study was conducted through six interviews with Muslim Swedes in order to express their views, thoughts and experiences of honor related oppression and violence, as well as their opinions on how the Swedish media depicts Muslims with respect to this subject. The empirical findings have been interpreted and analyzed in light of three theoretical frameworks in addition to previous research on honor related oppression and violence. The results of this study indicate that all informants believe that honor related violence and oppression amount to limitation and control over women’s lives. Majority of informants with experience of oppression linked to honor all claim that such oppression is due to culture and honor. Contrastingly, the participants strongly dismiss and denounce Islam as being the contributing factor to honor related oppression and violence. However, results suggest a dissimilitude amongst participants as one of the informants suggests that religion is manipulated to reinforce and justify power structures that allow oppression and violence, which stem from honor, to continue to exist. Moreover, the study reveals that the informants believe that the Swedish media has a tendency to present Muslims as perpetrators of crimes related to honor related violence and killings. The informants call for a distinct definition of honor related oppression and violence, which includes all forms of violence against women.

Previous research has focused on honor as a phenomenon, but has had less focus on socialservices work against honor-related matters. The purpose of this study is to analyze howsocial workers in the social services experience handling honor-related violence andoppression and what they find challenging and difficult. The study was conducted with thehelp of interviews with social workers. To gain a deeper understanding of the subject, wehave also used previous research, articles and reports on the topic in question. Due to theongoing pandemic with Covid-19, all interviews were conducted via video calls using Zoom. The result of this study shows that there are several types of difficulties in working withhonor related issues. Social workers highlight that there is a risk of discriminating againstsomeone based on, for example, ethnicity and how it can difficult to work from a familyperspective. It has also been emphasized both in previous research and in the interviews thathonor violence is not equated with domestic violence, it requires a deeper comprehension.This study also concludes that there is a need for further research regarding howhonor-related matters are to be handled by social service, as well for the development ofrelevant interventions. The results are analyzed using relevant theories; intersectional perspective, systems theoryand psychodynamic theory.

Den här uppsatsen använder hederskulturbegreppets teorier för att undersöka hederskultur inom det pentekostal-karismatiska fältet i Sverige. Materialet består av intervjuer med personer som växt upp i en pentekostal-karismatisk miljö samt av predikningar, litteratur och inlägg i sociala medier. Jag finner att materialet delvis innehåller sådant som kan sägas vara en annan i forskning belagd hederskultur, enkelt uttryckt »traditionell hederskultur« – det vill säga att leva med hedersrelaterade normer och begränsningar. Jag kallar denna variant av hederskultur för »kristen hederskultur«, ett begrepp jag gör ett försök att definiera. Uppsatsens ärende är att granska relationen mellan hederskulturen och kyrkosynen i dessa församlingsmiljöer. Jag finner att renhetsidealen i kyrkosynen – som jag bland annat kallar »fromhetsheder« – bidrar till hederskulturen. Dessa ideal tar i sin tur utgångspunkt i en föreställning om Bibelns auktoritet som rättesnöre för livet vilket gör föräldrarnas uppfostran av barnen i min studie strängare. Den karismatiska förståelsen av världen kan också leda till en alternativ barnuppfostran. Vikten av helighet komplicerar och begränsar även de ungas liv i mitt material. Jag avslutar med att föreslå begreppet »hedersrelaterad ecklesiologi«, en kyrkosyn som jag menar karakteriseras av en ortodox lära, en gemenskap som kräver Guds renhet, en stark församlings-identitet som missionerande, samt en karismatisk praktik.

The intention of this qualitative study is to gain an in-depth understanding of how women break away from honor-related violence and oppression, and how they can be understood in relation to gender and honor-culture. This is done by analyzing the autobiographical text of six different young women describing their experiences of being victims of honor-related violence and oppression. The study shows that it isn't easy for young girls to get out of the oppression and violence. There are several different factors as to why some of them stay and don't seek help. Instead, they feel guilt. It is a long process for the girls, where they have to get past different stages. The last stage for the young woman is understanding, in order for her to heal and move on in life she has to understand what she has gone through and process it, and also reflect on it. This can lead to great sadness for the young woman, thoughts about why they stayed for that long and wasted their own life and time.

Honor-related violence and oppression (HRVO) became a public and state concern in Sweden in the late 1990´s. The murders of three young girls in the name of “honor” sparked a vigorous scholarly and public debate on the causes of honor-related violence (HRV). Two main conflicting explanations emerged, and the phenomenon was constructed to have either cultural roots or seen as a form of patriarchal violence against women. Since then the debate has continued to raise much polemic in the Swedish society. The aim of this study was to gain deeper understanding of how social workers perceive and manage the conflicting discourses on HRVO in Sweden. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 12 key agents working with HRVO. The in-depth interviews were thematically analyzed. The inductive approach used resulted in nuanced findings that show that a cultural reductionism narrative is perceived as dominant regarding how HRVO is explained and tackled. This and the lack of consensus between conflicting perspectives on how HRVO should be explained has greatly affected the social practice with people that experience HRVO. The findings of this study also indicate that a more inclusive and nuanced framework needs to be utilized to address HRVO.

Syftet med studien är att utforska psykoterapeuters syn på hur psykoterapi kan svara på lidande hos patienter som upplevt förtryck i kristen hederskultur i frikyrkliga miljöer, samt att bidra till ökad kunskap om målgruppen så att psyko­terapeutkåren bättre kan möta dessa patienter. I studien intervjuas tolv psykoterapeuter med erfarenhet av målgruppen. Studiens resultat visar att terapeuterna beskriver att patient­målgruppens gudsbilder som dualistiska, att patienternas inre konflikter innehöll en negativ självbild och rädsla. Den stora stötestenen verkade konflikten kring en laddad sexualitet vara i relation till teologi, familj och församling. Många terapeuter tyckte att det var viktigt med kulturkompetens i mötet med målgruppen, särskilt de terapeuter som hade egen kultur­kompetens. Uppsatsen ställer frågan om psykoterapeut­kårens beredskap att möta målgruppen.

Den polariserade debatten om hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck i Sverige har karaktäriserats av å ena sidan en feministisk förklaringsmodell, å andra sidan en kulturspecifik förståelse av problemet. Debatten har sipprat ner till det sociala arbetet och orsakat osäkerhet hos socialarbetare i arbetet med hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck. Socialstyrelsen, som utgör den primära kunskapskällan för socialtjänstensarbete, bidrar inte med tillräckligt stöd för professionella i denna fråga. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur problemrepresentationer av hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck produceras genom diskurser i ett urval av Socialstyrelsens kunskapsstöd. Med hjälp av en postkolonial feministisk ansats och diskursanalytisk metod med utgångspunkt i Bacchis angreppssätt ”What’s the problem represented to be?” identifierades och analyserades tre olika diskurser. Vi fann att hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck och patriarkalt förtryck framställdes som ett ”osvenskt” problem, liksom motsägelser mellan problemframställningar och föreslagna insatser. Begreppet ”hederskontext” är centralt i Socialstyrelsens inramning av problemet, men begreppet definieras aldrig utan används snarare för att dölja Andrefiering av våldsutsatta. / The debate on honor-related violence and abuse in Sweden has been characterized by two polarized understandings of the issue, one being feminist and the other a culture-based understanding. This has affected social workers who work with these issues to a point of uncertainty. The National Board of Health and Welfare (NBHW), the Swedish authority responsible for producing guidelines for social workers, has not contributed with enough support in this matter. The aim of this study is to analyze how problem representations of honor-related violence and abuse are produced through discourses in a selection of guidelines published by NBHW. The study takes a postcolonial feminist approach and uses Bacchi’s “What’s the problem represented to be?” approach for analyzing policy. The discourses found seem to be contradicting one another and after reviewing the material, we found that NBHW uses the concept of "honor context" to frame the problem. However, this concept is never properly defined or explained, but is rather used to disguise an Othering of victims of honor-related violence and abuse.