Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets

doi:10.6027/nord2019-024

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“…Second, labour market establishment has always been central in Swedish integration policy, but it has been reinforced in the last decade (Grip, 2020;Brännström et al, 2018). Integrating immigrants into the labour market is still a challenge for Swedish society (Calmfors and Gassen, 2019), so many immigrants start their own businesses. Therefore, the role of immigrant entrepreneurship -an attempt to create immigrant-owned businesses as an employment alternative -is important to tackle the high unemployment rate among foreign-born residents.…”

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Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship

Evansluong

Grip

Karayianni³

2023

IJEBR

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PurposeThis paper aims to understand how immigrant entrepreneurs use digital opportunities to overcome the liability of newness and foreignness and how an immigrant's ethnicity can be digitally performed as an asset in business.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopts an inductive multiple case study approach using social media content. The data consist of over 3,500 posts, images and screenshots from Facebook, Instagram and the webpages of seven successful Vietnamese restaurants in Sweden. Grounded content analysis was conducted using NVivo.FindingsThe findings suggest that digitalising ethnic artifacts can mediate and facilitate three digital performances that together can turn ethnicity from a liability to an asset: (i) preserving performance through digital ethnicising, (ii) embracing performance through digital generativitising and (iii) appropriating performance through digital fusionising. The results support the introduction of a conceptual framework depicting the interwoven duality of horizontal and vertical boundary blurring, in which the former takes place between the offline and online spaces of immigrant businesses, and the latter occurs between the home and host country attachment of the immigrant businesses.Originality/valueThis study responds to calls for understanding how immigrant entrepreneurs can overcome the liability of foreignness. It offers a fresh look at ethnicity, which has been seen in a negative light in the field of immigrant entrepreneurship. This study illuminates that ethnicity can be used as a resource in immigrant entrepreneurship, specifically through the use of digital artifacts and digital platforms.

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Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship

Evansluong

Grip

Karayianni³

2023

IJEBR

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“…Since 1990, two thirds of the population increase in the Nordic countries has been generated by migration and Sweden has received the largest number of immigrants both in absolute numbers and on a per capita basis. Furthermore, refugee immigration has been more important in Sweden than in other Nordic countries (Calmfors & Sánchez Gassen 2019;Nordic council of ministers 2018;OECD 2016). Currently, the share of foreign-born residents (19% in 2018) is larger in Sweden than in other Nordic countries (Calmfors & Sánchez Gassen 2019, p. 10) and among the largest in European OECD countries (OECD 2016).…”

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A Maternal Wall for Refugees? Gender and Labor Market Establishment in Sweden

Grönlund

Nordlund

2021

NJWLS

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Using longitudinal register data, we examined gender patterns in the long-term labor market establishment of refugees (n ≈ 11,700) and Swedish-born individuals (n ≈ 109,000). The main question was whether refugee women face greater difficulties than men and if gender differences can be attributed to care responsibilities. With multinomial logistic regression, cox regressions, and individual fixed effects models, refugees were observed at age 29–30 in 1997, then followed to age 50. Results show that both among refugees and Swedish-born, establishment was a protracted and insecure process for women. Over time, women caught up with men but in terms of stable employment, gender gaps prevailed throughout the fertile period and parenthood was negatively related to long-term establishment prospects. Future research should move beyond the focus on labor market entry to capture the mechanisms behind long term insecurities. The timing of parenthood and the importance of adult education are of particular interest.

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2020

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Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets

Cited by 13 publications

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Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship

Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship

A Maternal Wall for Refugees? Gender and Labor Market Establishment in Sweden

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