‘To become upwardly mobile you have to be a Swede’ : Women’s upward class mobility in the neo-liberal Swedish welfare state context

doi:10.4324/9781351996808-8

ABSTRACT

It was so incredibly important for them [parents] to be Swedish. So, that’s connected to my upward mobility. To become upwardly mobile, you have to be a Swede and that was what they made sure my sister and I should be.