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‘Too brown to be Swedish, too Swedish to be anything else’: mimicry and menace in Swedish transracial adoption narratives

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Pages 394-409 | Received 04 Mar 2020, Accepted 23 Nov 2020, Published online: 17 Dec 2020

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