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- Zhang, Qian, 1977-, et al.
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Contextualizing the rural in digital studies : A computational literature review of rural-digital relations
- 2023
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Ingår i: Technology in society. - : Elsevier. - 0160-791X .- 1879-3274. ; 75
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digital technologies are changing how and where we live, work and socialize. Rural areas are distinctive spaces and places but in the current debates of new digital phenomena, digital spaces and practices risk not being contextualized with sensitivities to rural geographies. This study aims to map how digital has been examined to date in rural-focused studies, and accordingly present propositions for how rural-digital studies can be sensitive to the distinctive and diverse character of rural spaces and places. We conduct a two-stage/scale literature review, combining 1) computational topic modelling from a Global Dataset (459 article abstracts) with 2) qualitative content analysis from a sub-dataset focusing on the Nordic region (Nordic Sub-Dataset, 17 full articles). We begin with a topic modelling analysis generating ten major themes (topics) leading to an overview of how research areas are connected to the meaning of rural context. Turning to the Nordic region, as an in-depth example, we illustrate the complexity of rural digital geographies, through a qualitative content analysis. This demonstrates that digital in rural contexts are primarily positioned outwardly as social/regional development and business/economy, and less situated inwardly through individual experience and community building. Combined we show a wide spectrum of rural-digital relations but demonstrate that rural contexts in rural-digital relations need more attention. We propose three propositions to invite deeper rural contextualizations in future digital studies to uphold the importance of rural spaces and places through, by and with digital geography.
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- Haandrikman, Karen, 1977-, et al.
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Geographical Variation in Local Gender Contracts in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1874-463X .- 1874-4621. ; 14, s. 679-701
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite Sweden’s national gender-neutral family and social policies, local differences in gender contracts exist and have been related to differences in the structure of the labour market and cultural traditions. Existing studies are outdated and used relatively large administratively defined areas, which may lead to several measurement and interpretation errors. This paper examines geographical variation in gender contracts in present-day Sweden using individualized neighbourhoods on different scales. Gender contracts are operationalized using six indicators on the level of family, politics and labour. We identify five types of local gender contracts: the metropolitan gender contract, the progressive gender contract, the suburban gender contract, the commuter gender contract and the traditional gender contract. The most gender equal patterns are found in metropolitan and other urban areas, with high shares of fathers taking parental leave and the highest shares of women with high education and gainful employment, and low shares of young mothers. The analyses give evidence of considerable local variation instead of a dominant gender contract in each region. The findings may stimulate further research and local policies on gender inequality.
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- Haandrikman, Karen, 1977-, et al.
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Kvinna, utrikes född och företagare – En heterogen grupp med olika behov
- 2020
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Ingår i: Framtidens Chefer - Nyanlända och utrikes födda kvinnors entreprenörskap. - Stockholm : Fores. - 9789187379734 ; , s. 20-54
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- This chapter is based on Haandrikman’s and Webster FORMAS funded project at Stockholm University examining migrant women’s entrepreneurship in Sweden. Based on register data statistical analysis and 40 economic life course interviews this chapter highlights the heterogeneity of migrant women’s entrepreneurship in Sweden. We argue that the diversity of women’s experience must be recognized and that policy supports and programs must reflect the range of entrepreneurial backgrounds, with an emphasis on the need for long-term supports.
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- Haandrikman, Karen, 1977-, et al.
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Migrant, woman and business owner : A heterogeneous group with diverse needs
- 2020
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Rapport (refereegranskat)abstract
- The study examines migrant women’s entrepreneurship based on statistical analysis of register data and analysis of 36 economic life course interviews with migrant women entrepreneurs. We highlight the heterogeneity of migrant women’s entrepreneurship in Sweden and argue that the diversity of women’s experiences must be recognized by supporting policies and that policy supports and programs must reflect the range of entrepreneurial backgrounds, emphasizing the need for long-term supports.
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- Riaño, Yvonne, et al.
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Globalizations from below : understanding the spatialities, mobilities and resources of transnational migrant entrepreneurs across the globe
- 2024
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1474-7731 .- 1474-774X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Transnational corporations have been long recognized as the building blocks of global system theory and their impact is widely acknowledged and studied. By comparison, we have insufficient understanding of transnational practices ‘from below’. We argue that focusing on transnational migrant entrepreneurship is a novel opportunity to gain insights into the social and economic processes of ‘globalization from below’. Such processes refer to the dynamics and practices initiated by actors outside the hegemonic socio-economic spheres who, using various resources, move people, goods and ideas across national borders to create small-scale enterprises thus connecting distant places and people around the world. This special issue brings together a transdisciplinary group of researchers who examine the spatialities, mobilities and resources of transnational migrant entrepreneurs in Asia, Europe, North Africa, South America and the USA. The rich empirical base, coupled with diverse research methods, provides new insights into the phenomenon to scholars, policymakers and practitioners.
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- Webster, Natasha A., 1978-, et al.
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Careers Delivered from the Kitchen? Immigrant Women Small-scale Entrepreneurs Working in the Growing Nordic Platform Economy
- 2020
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Ingår i: NORA. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0803-8740 .- 1502-394X. ; 28:2, s. 113-125
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, several trends intersect: the gig economy is growing rapidly; immigrants find it challenging to find work; and integration policies increasingly focus on the role of the first job as a benchmark for integration. This empirical study inserts an intersectional perspective into the exploration of the gig economy by examining immigrant women’s daily working experiences within a transactional gig platform, “Yummy”. This food app links home-based chefs to public consumers through online ordering systems. Through in-depth interviews with chefs, the app management team and participatory observations at firm training sessions and food festivals, we explore the complexity of gendered and racialized precarious work from inside the gig economy to consider daily gig life from a feminist economics perspective. The study shows the gig economy does provide entrepreneurial opportunities for new immigrants with these being based on gendered norms. We demonstrate how gendered narratives of idle capacities and women’s work in the home and family spheres are marketized and transformed through the platform. Our study widens the scope of understanding the gig economy by positioning gig work as part of broader social relations between a company, the workers and gender norms.
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- Webster, Natasha A., 1978-, et al.
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Centering social-technical relations in studying platform urbanism : intersectionality for just futures in European cities
- 2021
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Ingår i: Urban Transformations. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2524-8162. ; 3:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Platform-based services are rapidly transforming urban work, lives and spaces around the world. The rise of platforms dependent on largely expendable labour relations, with significant migrant involvement, must be seen as connected, and as replicating larger social processes rather than merely technological changes. This perspective paper urgently calls for an intersectional perspective to better understand social-technical relations crossing the digital-urban interface of platform urbanism in contemporary European cities. Critics of platforms and gig work, to date, have mainly focused on algorithms-based social control, degraded working conditions, problematic employment relations and precariousness of gig work. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has both disrupted and amplified these issues, intensifying the vulnerability of gig workers. For example, in Sweden, migrant groups and gig workers were separately identified as being hardest hit by Covid, but with little attention to the interconnectivity between these categories, nor to how these groups are co-positioned vis-a-vis larger socio-economic inequalities. Thus, we argue for a deeper understanding of the social processes underlying platforms and for active investigation of how inequalities are being produced and/or maintained in/by these processes. Urban planners, designers and policy makers will need to actively address the hybrid (digital and physical) urban spaces produced in platform urbanism in order to prevent spatial and economic inequalities. We argue for a stronger recognition of interrelated and overlapping social categories such as gender and migrant status as central to the construction of mutually constitutive systems of oppression and discrimination produced in and through the platform urbanism.
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