Utrikesfödda kvinnors integration på arbetsmarknaden : En kvalitativ studie om hur socialarbetare och utrikesfödda kvinnor upplever integration

Sammanfattning: The purpose of the study was to investigate what the social work behind the integration of foreign-born women in the labor market looks like and how social workers experience integration. The second purpose was also to investigate how foreign-born women themselves experience integration in a country that is new to them. For the purpose of the study and questions, six interviews were conducted, three with social workers and three with foreign-born women. The theory applied in this study is intersectional perspective with a focus on gender and ethnicity. The data collection was analyzed with the help of qualitative content analysis and interpreted through an intersectional perspective and through the study's knowledge overview, in order to contribute to understanding where both individual and structural factors can create exclusion in the labor market for foreign-born women. The results showed that integration work is carried out aimed at foreign-born women, in the form of locally and internationally sponsored integration projects that are to contribute to employment in society. Regarding promoting factors, the results showed that both the professional respondents and the foreign-born respondents considered that, among other things, language education and social interaction are a central part of the integration. Finally, the results showed that the experience of integration among social workers and foreign-born women is a collaborative relationship, where both groups contribute to consistent notions of obstacles and opportunities for integration. In summary, the conclusions were that the design of integration policy is a contributing factor to how social integration work is conducted and how integration is perceived and practiced by those affected by the phenomenon.