'Back to Work'--Factors Facilitating Migrants' Re-Entry into Their Previous Vocations

Autor/inn/en	Eliasson, Eva; Teräs, Marianne; Osman, Ali
Titel	'Back to Work'--Factors Facilitating Migrants' Re-Entry into Their Previous Vocations
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 35 (2022) 8, S.828-842 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Osman, Ali)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
DOI	10.1080/13639080.2022.2144168
Schlagwörter	Migrants; Reentry Workers; Foreign Countries; Employment Potential; Labor Market; Vocational Education; Language Proficiency; Self Efficacy; Personality Traits; Social Networks; Motivation; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Migrantin; Beruflicher Wiedereinstieg; Ausland; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Schweden
Abstract	This article focuses on 'successful migrants', who have succeeded in gaining employment in Sweden in their previous vocational area. The aim is to describe factors on various levels -- individual, organisational and national -- that have facilitated migrants' way back to work as well as their inclusion at workplaces. Twenty migrants and five employers/mentors were interviewed. The overarching theme of facilitating factors concerns language proficiency, individual factors, enabling frameworks, and supporting persons and networks. The migrants' own ambitions and motivations, and the support they got in interpersonal encounters were especially emphasised as important. In the migrants' narratives, a central theme in relation to the theoretical perspective was how to deal with threats to their social and professional identity in the new country. For them, maintaining a positive self-image was key to the strength needed to fight for a return to working life. People in the environment were important in this struggle -- for positioning them as competent persons and for offering support. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01