Skip to main content

LUP Student Papers

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Papperslösa i Svenska kyrkan – en enkätstudie om sätt att hjälpa och konflikten mellan normer och regler

Harms, Tobias LU (2018) SOPA63 20172
School of Social Work
Abstract
The Swedish migration agency (Migrationsverket) believes that newly sharpened rules for asylum will increase the number of undocumented immigrants choosing to stay after getting a rejected asylum application. Since it is illegal to hire undocumented immigrants many are being "payed under the table" or receive welfare or aid from NGO:s. This essay investigates what one NGO, the Church of Sweden (Svenska kyrkan) and more specifically parishes in the dioceses of Lund (Lunds stift), does for undocumented immigrants. I also wanted to investigate the consequences of a hypothetical change of rules and how the will to help and the will to follow rules and authorities interact to explain a predilection for breaking rules. This was done using an... (More)
The Swedish migration agency (Migrationsverket) believes that newly sharpened rules for asylum will increase the number of undocumented immigrants choosing to stay after getting a rejected asylum application. Since it is illegal to hire undocumented immigrants many are being "payed under the table" or receive welfare or aid from NGO:s. This essay investigates what one NGO, the Church of Sweden (Svenska kyrkan) and more specifically parishes in the dioceses of Lund (Lunds stift), does for undocumented immigrants. I also wanted to investigate the consequences of a hypothetical change of rules and how the will to help and the will to follow rules and authorities interact to explain a predilection for breaking rules. This was done using an electronic survey sent to all priests, deacons and parish pedagogues in the dioceses of Lund asking questions about how often and what kind of help was given to undocumented immigrants; to gauge the responsibility they felt to help undocumented immigrants; how important they felt it was to follow rules made by different authorities; and under what circumstances they were willing to break rules concerning helping undocumented immigrants. The answers was analysed using multivariate regression analysation and Scotts theory of the pillars of institutions. I found it quite uncommon for the professionals in the dioceses to meet undocumented immigrants but when they do it is often for counseling and aid in the shape of food and clothing. I found that both the feeling of responsibility to help and valuing authorities influenced the readiness to break rules but that the former had the greater impact. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
Harms, Tobias LU
supervisor
organization
course
SOPA63 20172
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Undocumented immigrants, immigration, church of sweden, pillars of institutions, priests, deacons, parish pedagogues, values, rules, social norms
language
Swedish
id
8932514
date added to LUP
2018-01-18 16:51:45
date last changed
2018-01-18 16:51:45
@misc{8932514,
  abstract     = {{The Swedish migration agency (Migrationsverket) believes that newly sharpened rules for asylum will increase the number of undocumented immigrants choosing to stay after getting a rejected asylum application. Since it is illegal to hire undocumented immigrants many are being "payed under the table" or receive welfare or aid from NGO:s. This essay investigates what one NGO, the Church of Sweden (Svenska kyrkan) and more specifically parishes in the dioceses of Lund (Lunds stift), does for undocumented immigrants. I also wanted to investigate the consequences of a hypothetical change of rules and how the will to help and the will to follow rules and authorities interact to explain a predilection for breaking rules. This was done using an electronic survey sent to all priests, deacons and parish pedagogues in the dioceses of Lund asking questions about how often and what kind of help was given to undocumented immigrants; to gauge the responsibility they felt to help undocumented immigrants; how important they felt it was to follow rules made by different authorities; and under what circumstances they were willing to break rules concerning helping undocumented immigrants. The answers was analysed using multivariate regression analysation and Scotts theory of the pillars of institutions. I found it quite uncommon for the professionals in the dioceses to meet undocumented immigrants but when they do it is often for counseling and aid in the shape of food and clothing. I found that both the feeling of responsibility to help and valuing authorities influenced the readiness to break rules but that the former had the greater impact.}},
  author       = {{Harms, Tobias}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Papperslösa i Svenska kyrkan – en enkätstudie om sätt att hjälpa och konflikten mellan normer och regler}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}