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- Abbasian, Saeid, 1961-
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Integration på egen hand : En studie av invandrade kvinnoföretagare i Sverige
- 2003
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The principal aim of this thesis is to discover and analyse the motives that make immigrant women start their own businesses in Sweden and to investigate whether this is a way to achieve integration in working life. The empirical material consists of two types of interviews. One type consisted of interviews with five experts on labour market issues, and the other of interviews with 16 female entrepreneurs of Iranian, Chilean and Turkish origin having their own business in the Greater Stockholm region. Results from the first set of interviews indicate that female immigrants who independently start their enterprise rely mainly on their own resources of power and abilities. They are either women with class resources such as higher educations, previous work experience, language abilities and economic savings, or young women with certificates from high schools or universities. The social environment where they grew up, the gender structure and gender roles in the family before and after immigration and time of residence in Sweden also influence the extent to which women immigrants can act independently. According to the experience of the experts, the motives for starting their business are either different structural reasons, e.g. unemployment, lack of suitable or well-paying jobs, lay-offs etc, or personal reasons such as having a meaningful occupation, to support the family, to earn money of their own, to be independent from men and strive for a better standard of living etc. Results from the second set of interviews indicate that the most important resource these women have used when establishing their businesses is class resources such as education and adequate training, different types of work experiences, human capital and in addition to this economic savings. For many of the women in this sample different structural reasons, like unemployment, lack of good job opportunities, discrimination on work places, merge with personal reasons such as strivings to achieve independence, being one’s own boss, to realize one’s plans and ambitions, when starting their business. Independent entrepreneurship is a good way for immigrant women to be integrated in working life especially if they start within certain branches. These are branches in which the women have appropriate university education or vocational training, previous work experience or which correspond to their personal interests. In addition immigrant women become more integrated if an education received abroad is treated as equivalent to the parallel Swedish education or degree. A further factor promoting integration is if they can fully exploit their capacities when developing their own businesses. These conditions help them to feel much more satisfaction in working life as women identify themselves with their actual profession and feel that they have found the “right place” for themselves in the society.
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- Gonäs, Lena, et al.
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Platsar mångfalden i det nya arbetslivet? ' En kartläggning av lokala förändringsprocesser
- 2004
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Rapport (refereegranskat)abstract
- Skapar de nya arbetsmarknads och arbetslivsförhållanden möjligheter till en uppbrytning av rådande segregationsmönster eller skapar de nya former av underordning? Vi har i denna studie varit intresserade av könstillhörighetens och den etniska bakgrundens betydelse för individens möjligheter att hitta en plats i det som har kommit att kallas Õdet nya arbetslivetÕ. Genom intervjuer med företrädare för näringslivet inom Norrköpings kommun har vi försökt att kartlägga vad som utmärker Õdet nya arbetslivetÕ och belyst dess effekter på bevarande eller uppbrytning av segregationsmönster. Rapporten innehåller resultaten från kartläggningen och avslutas med förslag på angelägna frågor för fortsatt forskning.Författarinformation:Lena Gonäs är professor i arbetsvetenskap vid Karlstads universitet och Wuokko Knocke är docent i sociologi. Båda författarna är verksamma inom projektet Kön och Arbete vid Arbetslivsinstitutet i Stockholm
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- Gustafson, Åsa, 1968-
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Sköra livsmönster : Om integrations- och normaliseringsprocesser bland bosniska flyktingar
- 2004
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this study is to illustrate and unfold the dynamic interaction between conditions of integration and patterns of integration, in other words the structural conditions related to processes of integration and normalization of every day life. This is done with concrete reference to Bosnian refugees living in Malmö and Umeå during 1996-1997, having received permanent permission to stay in Sweden during 1992-1995. How do refugees under different conditions arrange their lives, perceive their own life situation, manage the course of daily life and develop individual life patterns? The study shows that processes of integration and normalisation depend on and has an impact on involvement and participation in social, economic, political and cultural life in general. Background statistics, official documents and local daily press material together with intense interviews with Bosnian refugees and key-informants constitute the empirical base of the study. The theoretical base consists of a holistic perspective on integration, including aspects of ethnicity, culture and gender. The focus is on the double-sided processes of integration among refugees in relation to the established population. Refugees’ processes of integration and normalization are described and discussed with reference to patterns of living conditions, patterns of integration, patterns of action and patterns of attitudes. The general conclusion is that refugees’ life patterns are very fragile. Processes of integration and normalization depend on conditions of involvement and of participation as well as the openness of the society at large and specifically on how civil, political and social rights are supplied for. This in turn raises the question of the importance of not only formal but also substantial citizenship rights. Integration is also closely related to possible changes towards more flexible gendered spaces of action. The more equal gender relations in the family become the more it opens up for possibilities of integration and normalization for both women and men. Encompassing possibilities to integration into the society at large combined with increased potentials of altering conventional power relations between women and men are vital for the processes of integration and normalization among refugees.
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- Hellmark, Ann-Britt, et al.
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In Memorian: Bengt Abrahamsson, 1937-2019
- 2019
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Ingår i: Economic and Industrial Democracy. - london : Sage Publications. - 0143-831X .- 1461-7099. ; 40:4, s. 836-837
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