Why are care workers from the global south disadvantaged? : Inequality and discrimination in Swedish elderly care work
| Autor: | Alireza Behtoui, Anders Neergaard, Kristina Boréus, Soheyla Yazdanpanah |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Cultural Studies
Sociology and Political Science Inequality Migrant worker media_common.quotation_subject Occupational prestige Political Science 0507 social and economic geography Elderly care Work Sciences workplace discrimination wage and status inequality 050602 political science & public administration Internationell Migration och Etniska Relationer (IMER) Sociology Sweden social capital racialization health care economics and organizations media_common International Migration and Ethnic Relations Statsvetenskap 05 social sciences Arbetslivsstudier 0506 political science Disadvantaged Work (electrical) Anthropology Demographic economics Racialization 050703 geography Social capital Qualitative research |
| Popis: | Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this study investigates inequalities in occupational status and wages between native-born and foreign-born employees in elderly care institutions in Sweden. It finds that employees from Africa, Asia and Latin America - the "Global South" - are disadvantaged in both respects. Combinatory explanations of the inequalities are needed. The shorter work experience of foreign-born workers in the care sector plus the lesser value given to educational credentials obtained outside Sweden are among the factors related to human capital theory. Access to less-valuable resources in the workplace social networks of foreign-born employees is related to social capital theory. The processes that result in exclusion from powerful social networks, in turn, are found to be affected by discrimination in the workplace. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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