FACULTY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY | Seminar
Migration seminar: Advancing our understanding of social capital

Welcome to the Migration Seminar!

Advancing our understanding of social capital through an exploration of the Swedish labour market experiences of young adults with humanitarian immigrant backgrounds

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Natalie Anita Bye, PhD Candidate, Stockholm School of Economics, Center for Responsible Leadership.

Abstract

Young people living in the EU, who were born outside the EU are more than three times as likely to be unemployed than a person born in the EU. Simultaneously, contacts and connections are involved in the appointment of seven out of ten jobs in Sweden. In this study, I explored the labour market experiences of young adults with humanitarian immigrant backgrounds living in Sweden. I sought to improve our understanding of the links between social capital and immigrant labour market inclusion and exclusion. The decolonial analysis of the multimodal empirical material co-created through arts-based methods, identified a character-based referral as the critical social capital resource needed. This attests to the Swedishness of the young immigrant or their ability to perform Swedishness, rendering them compatible with the Swedish workplace. This highlights racialised 'othering' as a core organising principle of the Swedish labour market and the role of social capital in facilitating this. Based on these findings, a new social capital theoretical framework is proposed. An overview of this research project will be presented in this seminar.

Attendance

This is a hybrid seminar, you are welcome to connect via Zoom or join us at MIM seminar room, floor 9, Niagara, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1. To attend on campus, please gather by the reception area at 13.05.

Zoom

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