Motstridigheter i handlingsutrymmet - Yrkesverksamma socialarbetares upplevelser i arbetet med papperslösa klienter
(2025) SOPB63 20242School of Social Work
- Abstract
- This study aims to gain knowledge about social workers' experience of their work with undocumented clients and their perception of their room of action about their experiences with this client group. The study is of qualitative orientation and it’s been carried out through semi-structured interviews. The interviews were carried out with five social workers in different workplaces including non-profit organisations, and communal and regional organisations. The results show that social workers experience contradicting terms in their experiences working with undocumented clients. The experiences also vary between social workers in non-profit organisations compared to social workers in communal and regional work. Moreover, the social workers... (More)
- This study aims to gain knowledge about social workers' experience of their work with undocumented clients and their perception of their room of action about their experiences with this client group. The study is of qualitative orientation and it’s been carried out through semi-structured interviews. The interviews were carried out with five social workers in different workplaces including non-profit organisations, and communal and regional organisations. The results show that social workers experience contradicting terms in their experiences working with undocumented clients. The experiences also vary between social workers in non-profit organisations compared to social workers in communal and regional work. Moreover, the social workers describe different strategies for handling the occurring contradictions in working with undocumented clients. The main strategies fit within their room of action while some of the strategies challenge the boundaries or even occur outside the boundaries of their room of action. Through our analysis we have been able to determine a relation between how the social workers experience their room of action with their feeling of responsibility towards undocumented clients. A smaller room of action shows less feeling of responsibility, whereas a bigger room of action shows a stronger feeling of responsibility. (Less)
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- author
- Fält, Alex LU and Sultani, Sara LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Contradictions in the room for action - Professional social workers experiences working with undocumented clients
- course
- SOPB63 20242
- year
- 2025
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- undocumented migrants, room of action, irregular migrants, social work, welfare, social rights, sweden
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9186896
- date added to LUP
- 2025-04-01 08:58:36
- date last changed
- 2025-04-01 08:58:36
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abstract = {{This study aims to gain knowledge about social workers' experience of their work with undocumented clients and their perception of their room of action about their experiences with this client group. The study is of qualitative orientation and it’s been carried out through semi-structured interviews. The interviews were carried out with five social workers in different workplaces including non-profit organisations, and communal and regional organisations. The results show that social workers experience contradicting terms in their experiences working with undocumented clients. The experiences also vary between social workers in non-profit organisations compared to social workers in communal and regional work. Moreover, the social workers describe different strategies for handling the occurring contradictions in working with undocumented clients. The main strategies fit within their room of action while some of the strategies challenge the boundaries or even occur outside the boundaries of their room of action. Through our analysis we have been able to determine a relation between how the social workers experience their room of action with their feeling of responsibility towards undocumented clients. A smaller room of action shows less feeling of responsibility, whereas a bigger room of action shows a stronger feeling of responsibility.}},
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title = {{Motstridigheter i handlingsutrymmet - Yrkesverksamma socialarbetares upplevelser i arbetet med papperslösa klienter}},
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