Farmer Wants a (Swedish) Wife
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In this article we discuss discourses of white mobility in reality television, a genre whose problematic post-racial and neoliberal have long been exposed. Moving beyond the widely researched Anglophone media landscapes, interrogate discursive construction mobilities Swedish romance show Bonde Söker Fru – Jorden Runt (TV4, 2019–2020) [Farmer Seeks Wife Around World] where North-to-South migrants working as farmers abroad seek partner from Sweden through assistance TV. By focusing on visual strategies which perpetuates racial hierarchies, colonial imaginaries, absence border policies (such residency, employment, or integration), significance individual migratory preferences discourses. We identify three forms tourist, adventurer, philanthropist that migration is depicted something reversible, an adventure, possibility for self-development, rather than life-long decision with high stakes.
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عنوان ژورنال: View : Journal of European Television History and Culture
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2213-0969']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18146/view.270