Nordic state education in between racialization and the possibilities of anti-racist strategy: introduction

Abstract

Faced with accumulated migratory histories as well as the racialization of minoritized migrant and indigenous populations, educational institutions are facing the challenge to find ways to respond. In particular, the recalibration of forms of racialization has become inextricable from educational policymaking and everyday school life in Nordic educational institutions. Education researchers in Nordic countries have pointed to racialized exclusion being a formative experience of minoritized, racialized and indigenous students, in spite of their experiences still being neglected in educational systems, personal encounters and academic knowledge production. The task for the education researchers then is to keep examining and scrutinizing these educational moments through which racialized inequalities appear and come to matter.