Gender and Whiteness in Motion

Abstract

Since whiteness and masculinity prevail as structural privileges, the outcomes of Swedish women’s migrations are both complex and contradictory. In this chapter, I will revisit some of the major findings locating Swedish white migrant women in new transnational, national and local social logics, and map how different forms of capital and resources, such as whiteness, class, nationality, femininity, sexuality, respectability and age, intersect in the three different contexts of the US, Singapore and Spain. Although these capitals and resources were locally produced, they were also part of larger transnational shifts and flows.