Stigma och diskriminering på den svenska arbetsmarknaden : En kvalitativ studie om syriska invandrarkvinnors erfarenheter

Sammanfattning: In the Swedish labor market the immigrant, compared to the native individual, is seen to experience both stigma and discrimination to a bigger degree. This in turn generates some immigrants to have a negative experience correlated to the Swedish worklife in consideration to the unfair treatment in the recruitment process. In this study we investigate the experiences of women from Syria in consideration to their experiences of stigma and discrimination in the Swedish labor market. We have conducted a qualitative study in the form of semi-qualitative interviews with a total of six Syrian migrated women as a measure to gather the women's experience in search for common or shared experiences of discrimination or injustice taking place in the Swedish labor market. Our data analysis is based on three occurring themes where we linked our empirical evidence to former research done in the field, also to relevant theories presented by sociologists investigating the subject of stigma. The study's results show that all women shared the common experience of discrimination and stigma in consideration to the hiring process in the Swedish labor market. Different factors such as their cultural background, language skills, their physical appearance and name were also of importance.