Organizing Integration in the Swedish Labor and Housing Markets
Policies for refugees’ settlement, housing, and employment are usually not formulated or analyzed in relation to each other. This study aims to address the dialectical relationship among settlement, housing, and labor market activation policies for refugees. To do this, we draw on Benson’s (see Bens...
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| description | Policies for refugees’ settlement, housing, and employment are usually not formulated or analyzed in relation to each other. This study aims to address the dialectical relationship among settlement, housing, and labor market activation policies for refugees. To do this, we draw on Benson’s (see Benson 1977; 1983) conceptualization of the dialectical perspective and its four interconnected principles (social construction/production, context, contradiction, and praxis) and employ this approach at two critical moments when Swedish policies on housing and employment for refugees were significantly reorganized. Overall, the organization of the settlement and inclusion of refugees in terms of housing and employment produces intentional and unintentional contradictions with several possible outcomes. The actual outcomes show that some contradictions and paradoxes among the various spheres and geographical levels have not been resolved by state policy reorganization (decentralization or centralization). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-09ddf85552034889a8fd20118560146e2025-02-11T05:40:51ZengHelsinki University PressNordic Journal of Migration Research1799-649X2025-01-011534410.33134/njmr.754730Organizing Integration in the Swedish Labor and Housing MarketsSusanne Urban0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7656-779XEmma Holmqvist1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7789-4223Vedran Omanović2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4429-9679Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF), Faculty of Social Sciences, Uppsala UniversityInstitute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF), Faculty of Social Sciences, Uppsala UniversityDepartment of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg UniversityPolicies for refugees’ settlement, housing, and employment are usually not formulated or analyzed in relation to each other. This study aims to address the dialectical relationship among settlement, housing, and labor market activation policies for refugees. To do this, we draw on Benson’s (see Benson 1977; 1983) conceptualization of the dialectical perspective and its four interconnected principles (social construction/production, context, contradiction, and praxis) and employ this approach at two critical moments when Swedish policies on housing and employment for refugees were significantly reorganized. Overall, the organization of the settlement and inclusion of refugees in terms of housing and employment produces intentional and unintentional contradictions with several possible outcomes. The actual outcomes show that some contradictions and paradoxes among the various spheres and geographical levels have not been resolved by state policy reorganization (decentralization or centralization).https://account.journal-njmr.org/index.php/uh-j-njmr/article/view/754integrationrefugeeimmigrants’ housinglabor market integrationdialectic |
| spellingShingle | Susanne Urban Emma Holmqvist Vedran Omanović Organizing Integration in the Swedish Labor and Housing Markets Nordic Journal of Migration Research integration refugee immigrants’ housing labor market integration dialectic |
| title | Organizing Integration in the Swedish Labor and Housing Markets |
| title_full | Organizing Integration in the Swedish Labor and Housing Markets |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Organizing Integration in the Swedish Labor and Housing Markets |
| title_short | Organizing Integration in the Swedish Labor and Housing Markets |
| title_sort | organizing integration in the swedish labor and housing markets |
| topic | integration refugee immigrants’ housing labor market integration dialectic |
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