Standing Alone: Sexual Minority Status and Victimisation in a Rural Lower Secondary School

Autor/in	Odenbring, Ylva
Titel	Standing Alone: Sexual Minority Status and Victimisation in a Rural Lower Secondary School
Quelle	In: International Journal of Inclusive Education, 26 (2022) 5, S.480-494 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Odenbring, Ylva)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-3116
DOI	10.1080/13603116.2019.1698064
Schlagwörter	Sexual Orientation; Victims; Rural Schools; Secondary School Students; Bullying; Social Bias; Grade 9; Foreign Countries; Violence; LGBTQ People; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexuelle Orientierung; Victim; Opfer; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Sekundarschüler; Mobbing; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Ausland; Gewalt; Schweden
Abstract	Studies worldwide indicate that sexual minority students often face different forms of bullying in everyday life at school, and young people growing up in communities with conservative values, such as in rural areas, are often in a particularly vulnerable position. Nonetheless, there is an absence of studies addressing the everyday lives of sexual minority students in rural schools. Drawing on interviews with students in the ninth grade of a rural lower secondary school in Sweden, the current study has investigated experiences of violence and harassment routinely directed at sexual minority students at school. The results indicate that the local gender regime is strongly framed by heteronormative values that position non-heterosexual students as the Other. Sexual minority students are exposed to homophobic name-calling on a daily basis, and threats and physical violence are also common. To fit in and to 'survive' in school, sexual minority students are forced to accept the homophobic name-calling and are sometimes also forced to physically fight back. This study concludes that it is important that schools address issues around violence directed towards non-heterosexual students, and that ways to create a more inclusive and safe school environment be identified. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01