How Social Workers in Swedish EmploymentAgencies Experience the Coping Strategy Used byAfrican Immigrant Parents Exposed to SocialExclusion and Marginalisation in the SwedishLabour Market

Sammanfattning: This research highlights the different coping strategies used by African immigrant parents to surmount social exclusion and marginalization from a professional's point of view. On this note, the authors' objective of this study is to identify the different coping strategies used by African immigrant parents in the face of exclusion and marginalization in Sweden. The study also has an objective to examine the measures taken by professionals in helping immigrant parents to cope with social exclusion and marginalization in Sweden. Following this trend, the study is conducted using a qualitative research approach. An interview guide was drafted, and four professionals who deal with African immigrant parents were interviewed. The authors used social exclusion theory to explain the phenomenon in the study. Finally, the findings from the study reveal that most African immigrant parents face the same problem of the language barrier, which makes them prone to social exclusion. The four professionals interviewed, however, believe that these African immigrant parents have developed coping strategies innately, from good counsel, by creating networks and carving a niche in the labor market whether skilled or not. This makes them better integrated into the Swedish system.