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När agens och ambivalens går hand i hand: en kvalitativ studie om agens och begränsningar för kvinnor som migrerat till Sverige

Fokkema, Boukje LU (2019) EDMK01 20191
Department of Gender Studies
Department of Service Studies
Abstract
In Sweden women with an immigrant background are through different policies frequently secluded to care labour. Consequently, a big part of women migrating to Sweden work as an assisting nurse in eldercare. The aim of this study is therefore to further develop an understanding of these women’s agency in Sweden, by discovering how agency exists in relation to work, family and spare time. Therefore, this study consists of seven semi-structured interviews conducted with women working as assisting nurses. Furthermore, a constitutive part of this paper is to identify factors that increase and decrease agency. However, this approach highlights an ambivalence, since restrictions and enactment of agency are found within the same context.... (More)
In Sweden women with an immigrant background are through different policies frequently secluded to care labour. Consequently, a big part of women migrating to Sweden work as an assisting nurse in eldercare. The aim of this study is therefore to further develop an understanding of these women’s agency in Sweden, by discovering how agency exists in relation to work, family and spare time. Therefore, this study consists of seven semi-structured interviews conducted with women working as assisting nurses. Furthermore, a constitutive part of this paper is to identify factors that increase and decrease agency. However, this approach highlights an ambivalence, since restrictions and enactment of agency are found within the same context. Therefore, this ambivalence is studied throughout to emphasise the varying ways agency is present in their lives. The result of the study accentuates that women’s agency decreases due to structures related to gender, ethnicity and class. Simultaneously, it is also within these limiting contexts that their agency becomes visible. Furthermore, the study displays that women’s agency and the ambivalence is complex and individual, where no overarching conclusions can be found. Thus, it highlights the complex and varying contexts women’s agency is executed - both inside and outside the workplace. (Less)
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author
Fokkema, Boukje LU
supervisor
organization
course
EDMK01 20191
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Agens, Ambivalens, Kvinnor, Migration, Äldreomsorg
language
Swedish
id
8987026
date added to LUP
2019-06-27 09:19:20
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2019-06-27 09:19:20
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  abstract     = {{In Sweden women with an immigrant background are through different policies frequently secluded to care labour. Consequently, a big part of women migrating to Sweden work as an assisting nurse in eldercare. The aim of this study is therefore to further develop an understanding of these women’s agency in Sweden, by discovering how agency exists in relation to work, family and spare time. Therefore, this study consists of seven semi-structured interviews conducted with women working as assisting nurses. Furthermore, a constitutive part of this paper is to identify factors that increase and decrease agency. However, this approach highlights an ambivalence, since restrictions and enactment of agency are found within the same context. Therefore, this ambivalence is studied throughout to emphasise the varying ways agency is present in their lives. The result of the study accentuates that women’s agency decreases due to structures related to gender, ethnicity and class. Simultaneously, it is also within these limiting contexts that their agency becomes visible. Furthermore, the study displays that women’s agency and the ambivalence is complex and individual, where no overarching conclusions can be found. Thus, it highlights the complex and varying contexts women’s agency is executed - both inside and outside the workplace.}},
  author       = {{Fokkema, Boukje}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{När agens och ambivalens går hand i hand: en kvalitativ studie om agens och begränsningar för kvinnor som migrerat till Sverige}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}