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Farmer Wants a (Swedish) Wife: White Mobilities in the Reality Romance Show Bonde Söker Fru – Jorden Runt

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dc.creatorAitaki, Georgia
dc.creatorCarlsson, Nina
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-06T14:37:41Z
dc.date.available2022-10-06T14:37:41Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractIn this article we discuss discourses of white mobility in reality television, a genre whose problematic post-racial and neoliberal discourses have long been exposed. Moving beyond the widely researched Anglophone media landscapes, we interrogate the discursive construction of white mobilities in the Swedish romance reality show Bonde Söker Fru – Jorden Runt (TV4, 2019-2020) [Farmer Seeks Wife – Around the World] where Swedish North-to-South migrants working as farmers abroad seek a partner from Sweden through the assistance of reality TV. By focusing on the discursive and visual strategies through which the show perpetuates racial hierarchies, we discuss the colonial imaginaries, the absence of border policies (such as residency, employment, or integration), and the significance of individual migratory preferences in the mobility discourses. We identify three forms of white mobility – the tourist, the adventurer, and the philanthropist – and show that migration is depicted as something reversible, an adventure, and a possibility for self-development, rather than a life-long decision with high stakes.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/view.270
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18968
dc.identifier.urihttps://viewjournal.eu/articles/10.18146/view.270/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20128
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW. Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectreality TVen
dc.subjectraceen
dc.subjectwhitenessen
dc.subjectSwedenen
dc.subjectbordersen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleFarmer Wants a (Swedish) Wife: White Mobilities in the Reality Romance Show Bonde Söker Fru – Jorden Runten
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2022-10-06T16:51:56
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://doi.org/10.18146/view.270
local.source.epage82
local.source.issue20
local.source.issueTitleRace and European TV Histories
local.source.spage64
local.source.volume10

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