Högutbildade migranter i Sverige: Vilka utmaningar stöter högutbildade migranter på i den svenska arbetsmarknaden?
2024 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesisAlternative title
Highly Educated Immigrants in Sweden : What Challenges do Highly Educated Migrants Encounter in the Swedish Labor Market? (English)
Abstract [en]
This essay examines the study of highly educated migrants in Sweden and their experiences in the Swedish job market. This essay presents six different interviewees, each with an individual experience of challenges, obstacles, and other factors when integrating into the Swedish job market. By applying human capital theory, social capital, social network theory, and discrimination theory, this essay explores the challenges and obstacles encountered by highly educated migrants, which are primarily language barriers. Gaining control and learning how to master the Swedish language has been a challenge for all interviewees. Other challenges and obstacles mentioned also include losses felt by highly educated migrants, which vary for each interviewee. However, they all acknowledge experiencing or feeling a loss both economically and socially. This essay highlights the finding that interviewees with a larger social network, social capital, and human capital of colleagues, contacts, and support had a greater chance of finding jobs in Sweden and had an easier transition into the Swedish job market, contrasted with interviewees who did not have this advantage and lacked human capital, social capital, and social networks. These interviewees had to struggle to find jobs and learn to integrate into the Swedish job market on their own.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2024. , p. 37
Keywords [sv]
Integration, migration, humankapital, socialt kapital, socialt nätverk, diskriminering, Integration, migration, human capital, social capital, social network, discrimination
National Category
International Migration and Ethnic Relations
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-68474OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-68474DiVA, id: diva2:1866979
Educational program
KS GPS International Migration and Ethnic Relations
Supervisors
Examiners
2024-06-142024-06-092024-06-14Bibliographically approved