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- Broadbridge, Adelina, et al.
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Retirement – a new beginning or the beginning of the end?
- 2015
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Ingår i: Handbook Of Gendered Careers In Management: Getting In, Getting On, Getting Out. - 9781782547686 ; , s. 728-739
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter explores what retirement means to women about to, or having recently retired in the current economic climate. It examines the choices perceived available to pre-retirement and retired people and their attitudes towards retirement. From our findings we are able to deduce that not everyone approaches retirement in the same way. Davies and Jenkins (2013) categorize individual-level experiences of the retirement transition into five positions: clean breakers; continuing scholars; opportunists; the reluctant; avoiders. We also categorize retirees depending on how they view themselves and their overall attitudes to retirement. However, our typology differs from theirs, which partly may be due to the fact that that we, instead of using a matched sample (which in their case consists of academic staff), include people with a variety of professions and who either have retired or are still working.
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- Moulettes, Agneta
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The Darker side of Integration Policy : A study on public employment officers’ discursive construction of female immigrants’ employability
- 2015
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Ingår i: SAGE Open. - : SAGE Publications. - 2158-2440. ; 5:2, s. 1-13
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite its remarkable receptivity to immigrants entering the country, Sweden has one of the worst track records in Europe in terms of employing immigrants. However, although there are various studies devoted to integration issues, little scholarly attention has been directed toward public employment officers and their role as professional mediators in the integration process. By investigating the language used by public employment officers when they explain how they assist female immigrants in the process of entering the Swedish labor market, this study attempts to add to our knowledge of these officers and their role. It uses ideas from postcolonial theory and critical discourse analysis to show (a) how public employment officers make use of prevailing discourses to transform female immigrants from passive welfare beneficiaries into active and responsible job seekers, (b) how prevailing discourses contribute to the reproduction of culture and gender differences reminiscent of colonial discourses, and (c) how unequal power relations may favor the segregation of mainstream and alternative cultures.
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