Facts

Contact person:
El Häkkinen
Financer:
  • Institutionen för urbana studier - Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle
Responsible at MaU:
Carina Listerborn
Project members at MaU:
Time frame:
01 September 2021 - 31 August 2025
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Project description

In my research project, I investigate how inequality is organized in the municipal home care work in Malmö and how the inequality affects the assistant nurses and care assistants who work in the home care. The latter concerns, among other things, the feelings and emotions that the inequality gives rise to within the home care workers. The inequality will be studied from an intersectional perspective with a focus on class, sex/gender, race/ethnicity and sexuality.

Theoretically, I am inspired by the sociologist and organizational researcher Joan Acker's theory that organizations have inequality regimes. Through interviews and focus groups, the study will be carried out together with research participants consisting of assistant nurses and care assistants who work in the home care in Malmö.