‘New Rules for Labour Immigration’: Delving into the 2008 Swedish Reform of Labour Migration and Its Effects on Migrants’ Well-Being

Bonfanti, Sara

doi:10.1007/s12134-013-0290-8

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“…Labour market policy, as well as state policies that do not grant citizenship to foreigners, may actively influence non-indigenous workers' employment prospects. Variations in labour market integration processes may also be explained by other factors, such as employers and employers' associations (Bonfanti, 2014;Wright et al, 2017), as well as trade unions' engagement in policy formation (Marino et al, 2017). While the uncertainty regarding asylum-seekers' ability to remain in the host country may be seen as a potential impediment for employers, in terms of not having a long-term workforce (Hainmueller et al, 2016), employers and their associations have recently spoken out in favour of facilitating the integration of asylumseekers within labour markets (Lundborg and Skedinger, 2016;Marston, 2004).…”

Section: The Societal Contextmentioning

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Asylum-seekers and refugees within Europe and labour market integration

Schenner

Neergaard

2019

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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This special issue seeks to investigate and understand the various experiences of asylum-seekers, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection and refugees in accessing labour markets across the EU and EEA countries. The first section of this introduction provides an overview of the three groups of people who are the focus of this special issue and their relationship to the labour markets in the EU Member States and EEA countries. The second section provides insights into how the essential features of their labour market integration may be understood by using Levitas’ discourse analysis. The third section explores a range of different labour market access dimensions by focusing not only on the human capital aspects of migration in general but also on the contextual factors of civic stratification; the broader societal context, including public opinion and civil society; the background and situation of earlier migrants, especially asylum-seekers and refugees with respect to national/federal laws; and the countries of origin of migrants as well as demographic trends across the EU. The fourth and final section explains and justifies the focus of this special issue and emphasises the relevance of this topic.

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Section: The Societal Contextmentioning

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Asylum-seekers and refugees within Europe and labour market integration

Schenner

Neergaard

2019

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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“…We conducted a critical discourse analysis informed by Bacchi's () “What's the problem represented to be?” (WPR) approach to address the active role that the government plays in shaping how problems are understood by its constituents. WPR is informed by Foucault's governmentality theory, which aims to uncover how values, norms and “truths” become embedded within practices of governing (Bonfanti, ). Foucault's work is useful for examining how power operates through “governing strategies, means of discipline and other kinds of social technologies that could be mobilized by a variety of institutions and social actors” (Kretsedemas, : e4).…”

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“…Bonfanti () used Bacchi's WPR approach to conduct a critical discourse analysis of Swedish labour migration changes made in 2008. She analysed the “paradigm of managed migration” within Sweden and found that policy reforms targeted the “problem” of perceived skills and labour shortage.…”

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Constructing undesirables: A critical discourse analysis of ‘othering’ within the Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act

Huot

Bobadilla

Bailliard

et al. 2015

International Migration

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Immigration policy in Canada has recently shifted, reflecting changes in other Western countries. We studied the discursive constructions of forced migrants within Bill C-31 "Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act" and its associated Backgrounder documents published by the Canadian Government. The documents were analysed using an approach to critical discourse analysis adapted from Bacchi's (2009) methodology and informed by a theoretical framework of "othering". Particular groups of migrants were represented as posing threats to the economy, the integrity of the refugee system, and national security. The documents offered three solutions: the creation of specific categories of migrants, an emphasis upon efficiency of the system, and expanded powers to the government. The problematization of asylum seekers as posing multiple threats to Canadian society obfuscates governmental responsibilities to this population and reflects common strategies of neoliberal governance.

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“…In recent years it has been employed as a fruitful way of thinking about and analyzing problematizations, as well as offering concrete suggestions for to how to structure analyses of discourses (cf. Månsson & Ekendahl 2015;Bonfanti 2014;Roumeliotis 2016). …”

Section: Critical Discourse Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Up the “Drug-Abusing Immigrant”

Nordgren

2017

Contemporary Drug Problems

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In social work, drug treatment, and government contexts in Sweden, numerous attempts have been made to construct a new kind of client and patient: the ''drug-abusing immigrant.'' I trace these developments from the 1960s to 2011 through an analysis of publications about ''drug abuse among immigrants.'' The empirical material consists of a broad range of publications produced on this topic in social work, drug treatment, and government contexts both nationally and in local municipal settings. I use Hacking's analytical approach to ''making up people'' as a way of analyzing how knowledge production resulted in certain descriptions of the kind of client/patient categorized as a ''drug-abusing immigrant.'' Four themes were central to discussions of this kind: the introduction of new drugs and ways of using them by immigrants, the intermingling of ethnic drug use patterns, the need to target Iranians in relation to opiate use, and descriptions of drug-using immigrants as vulnerable. Drug use among immigrants was a phenomenon mainly discussed at local levels of social work and drug treatment and did not develop into a national political problem. It seems that a perceived rapid increase in immigration in Sweden during the mid-1980s acted as a catalyst for the focus on ''drug abuse among immigrants.'' The ''drug-abusing immigrant'' category should be seen as an administrative category and the process of making it up as ultimately a ''failed'' one. The category was not adopted by those so categorized and subsequently declined in use during the 2000s. A recent focus on drug use among ''unaccompanied minors'' might be seen as a new attempt to make up certain immigrants as a specific kind of ''drug abuser.''

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‘New Rules for Labour Immigration’: Delving into the 2008 Swedish Reform of Labour Migration and Its Effects on Migrants’ Well-Being

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Asylum-seekers and refugees within Europe and labour market integration

Asylum-seekers and refugees within Europe and labour market integration

Constructing undesirables: A critical discourse analysis of ‘othering’ within the Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act

Making Up the “Drug-Abusing Immigrant”

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