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 ‘foreign-born unemployed women’ 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 científica para quê?

Este artigo visa apresentar e discutir a inserção e o desenvolvimento da Iniciação Científica (IC) numa escola técnica de nível médio de Santa Catarina (Instituto Federal Catarinense - Campus Rio do Sul - IFC), tendo como marco teórico Paulo Freire e, promover a discussão entre a IC com as repercussões sociais contemporâneas decorrentes da ciência e tecnologia. Inicialmente será apresentado o desenvolvimento da disciplina de IC no ensino médio do IFC seguidos da aplicação de um questionário aos docentes e estudantes de IC do ensino médio. A análise dos resultados baseou-se nas perspectivas reducionista e ampliada conforme discutidas por Auler e Delizoicov (2001), com ênfase na perspectiva ampliada. Concluímos que ocorre uma fragmentação da visão da IC sendo fundamental ter a ciência e a tecnologia a favor da sociedade

Kan du leva på din lön? Om dricks, känsliga pengar och ekonomisk utsatthet

Dricks som fenomen avtäcker de moraliska, normativa och känslomässiga strukturer som formar ekonomiska relationer. De synliggör, för att använda den ungerske marxisten Karl Polanyis begrepp, hur ekonomin är socialt inbäddad (Polanyi 1944/2012). Dricks är ett samhällsfenomen som tidigare varit centralt för de anställda inom branschen. För många anställda var det den enda inkomsten. Genom den fackliga rörelsens arbete mot dricks och formaliseringen av löner för de anställda, kom dricks att reducerades till något ”extra” snarare än en central del av de anställdas inkomster. Ökningen av tillfälliga anställningar och informella anställningar tillsammans med en ökning av servicekonsumtion innebär att dricks för de anställda får en ökad ekonomisk betydelse. Detta innebär samtidigt en ökad ekonomisk sårbarhet, då dricks är en oförutsägbar inkomst som den anställda endast i begränsad utsträckning kan påverka. I likhet med annan forskning (Paules 1991, Gatta 2005) visar mitt material hur de anställda utvecklar strategier för att hantera den sociala och ekonomiska utsatthet som dricks kan skapa

Policing time – 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 people’s 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 women’s 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

Motstånd och fatalism. Läkares erfarenheter av rasism

Denna text utforskar den roll som läkare menar att informella kontakter har för deras möjligheter att göra karriär. Texten visar att det finns en skillnad i hur könade och rasifierade former av exkludering beskrivs och vilka strategier för motstånd 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 – 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 – The paper takes as its point of departure Cho et al. (2013) notion of “intersectionality as an analytical sensibility” (p. 795). The material consists of qualitative semi-structured interviews with 15 chief medical doctors employed in two Swedish hospitals. Findings – 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 – 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 – 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

Motstånd och fatalism : läkares erfarenehter av rasism

Denna text utforskar den roll som läkare menar att informella kontakterhar för deras möjligheter att göra karriär. Texten visar att det finns enskillnad i hur könade och rasifierade former av exkludering beskrivsoch vilka strategier för motstånd som skapas för att möta dem