48 research outputs found
A New Service Class in the Public Sector? The Role of Femonationalism in Unemployment Policies
This article aims to explore the content embedded in the figuration of âforeign-born unemployed womenâ and how discourses of gender equality are used to create an emerging racialised service class within the Swedish public sector. Influenced by the concept of femonationalism, the article explores how the introduction of the Extra Services unemployment reforms facilitates the creation of a service class whose purpose is to make it possible for the regular workforce to continue to function despite cutbacks and the neoliberal management of professional care work in the public sector. The study identifies a shift in the discourse, where, while migrant women continue to be represented as victims in public discourses concerning unemployment, they are also represented as being lazy and unwilling to work, qualities that legitimate the need for more repressive interventions towards the group, often described as feminist interventions that will rescue migrant women and their children
Iniciação cientĂfica para quĂȘ?
Este artigo visa apresentar e discutir a inserção e o desenvolvimento da Iniciação CientĂfica (IC) numa escola tĂ©cnica de nĂvel mĂ©dio de Santa Catarina (Instituto Federal Catarinense - Campus Rio do Sul - IFC), tendo como marco teĂłrico Paulo Freire e, promover a discussĂŁo entre a IC com as repercussĂ”es sociais contemporĂąneas decorrentes da ciĂȘncia e tecnologia. Inicialmente serĂĄ apresentado o desenvolvimento da disciplina de IC no ensino mĂ©dio do IFC seguidos da aplicação de um questionĂĄrio aos docentes e estudantes de IC do ensino mĂ©dio. A anĂĄlise dos resultados baseou-se nas perspectivas reducionista e ampliada conforme discutidas por Auler e Delizoicov (2001), com ĂȘnfase na perspectiva ampliada. ConcluĂmos que ocorre uma fragmentação da visĂŁo da IC sendo fundamental ter a ciĂȘncia e a tecnologia a favor da sociedade
Kan du leva pÄ din lön? Om dricks, kÀnsliga pengar och ekonomisk utsatthet
Dricks som fenomen avtĂ€cker de moraliska, normativa och kĂ€nslomĂ€ssiga strukturer som formar ekonomiska relationer. De synliggör, för att anvĂ€nda den ungerske marxisten Karl Polanyis begrepp, hur ekonomin Ă€r socialt inbĂ€ddad (Polanyi 1944/2012). Dricks Ă€r ett samhĂ€llsfenomen som tidigare varit centralt för de anstĂ€llda inom branschen. För mĂ„nga anstĂ€llda var det den enda inkomsten. Genom den fackliga rörelsens arbete mot dricks och formaliseringen av löner för de anstĂ€llda, kom dricks att reducerades till nĂ„got âextraâ snarare Ă€n en central del av de anstĂ€lldas inkomster. Ăkningen av tillfĂ€lliga anstĂ€llningar och informella anstĂ€llningar tillsammans med en ökning av servicekonsumtion innebĂ€r att dricks för de anstĂ€llda fĂ„r en ökad ekonomisk betydelse. Detta innebĂ€r samtidigt en ökad ekonomisk sĂ„rbarhet, dĂ„ dricks Ă€r en oförutsĂ€gbar inkomst som den anstĂ€llda endast i begrĂ€nsad utstrĂ€ckning kan pĂ„verka. I likhet med annan forskning (Paules 1991, Gatta 2005) visar mitt material hur de anstĂ€llda utvecklar strategier för att hantera den sociala och ekonomiska utsatthet som dricks kan skapa
Policing time â creating labour : the temporal control of the unemployed
Taking as a point of departure the experience of unemployed women in the municipality of Malmö, Sweden, this article identifies the continuity between the policing of time in the migration complex and the unemployment complex. It explores three forms of temporal border policing: placing people on hold (waiting time), placing people in line (labour time), and placing people out of line (disposable time). By focusing on these three forms of policing unemployed peopleâs time, the article illuminates and analyses the contours of a gendered and racial temporality that creates a flexible, patient and disposable female and racialized workforce. It shows how processes of gendered racialization are those of time disposition and robbery, of time control and time waste, where racialized womenâs time is in different ways less valued and less visible. The article illustrates the unequal gendered and racial time regime that is shaped through temporal border practices in the Swedish unemployment complex
MotstÄnd och fatalism. LÀkares erfarenheter av rasism
Denna text utforskar den roll som lÀkare menar att informella kontakter har för deras möjligheter att göra karriÀr. Texten visar att det finns en skillnad i hur könade och rasifierade former av exkludering beskrivs och vilka strategier för motstÄnd som skapas för att möta dem
Exploring the experiences of women and migrant medical professionals in Swedish hospitals : Visible and hidden forms of resistance
Purpose
â The purpose of this paper is to analyse the different ways in which experiences of marginalisation within organisations are named and acted upon. Of particular interest is examining the ways in which the visibility of gender discrimination and the invisibility of ethnic discrimination indicate what the professionals in the study identify as horizons of possible individual and collective resistance.
Design/methodology/approach
â The paper takes as its point of departure Cho et al. (2013) notion of âintersectionality as an analytical sensibilityâ (p. 795). The material consists of qualitative semi-structured interviews with 15 chief medical doctors employed in two Swedish hospitals.
Findings
â The findings indicate that while there is an organisational visibility of gender inequality, there is an organisational invisibility of ethnic discrimination. These differences influence the ways in which organisational criticism takes place and inequalities are challenged. Female Swedish identified doctors acted collectively to challenge organisations that they considered male-dominated, while doctors with experience of migration (both female and male) placed more responsibility on themselves and established individual strategies such as working more or des-identification. However, they confronted the organisation by naming ethnic discrimination in a context of organisational silence.
Research limitations/implications
â The paper does not explore the different forms of racism (islamophobia, racism against blacks, anti-Semitism). In addition, further research is needed to understand how these various forms of racism shape workplaces in Sweden.
Originality/value
â The paper offers new insights into the difference/similarities between how processes of ethnic and gender discrimination are experienced among employees within high-status professions. The value of the paper lies in its special focus on how forms of resistance are affected by the frames of the organisation. The findings stress the importance of intersectional analyses to understand the complex patterns of resistance and consent emerging within organisations
MotstÄnd och fatalism : lÀkares erfarenehter av rasism
Denna text utforskar den roll som lÀkare menar att informella kontakterhar för deras möjligheter att göra karriÀr. Texten visar att det finns enskillnad i hur könade och rasifierade former av exkludering beskrivsoch vilka strategier för motstÄnd som skapas för att möta dem