Organising Immigrants' Integration: Practices and Consequences in Labour Markets and Societies

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Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction
	Part One: Integration—What Is It, and Where Does It Begin?
	Part Two: Integration, Translation, and Change
	Part Three: Integration—When, Where, and How Does It End?
	References
Part I: Integration, What Is It and Where Does It Begin?
	2: Alternative Perspectives on Immigrant Accommodation to Society: Implications for Organising, the Labour Market, and Workplace Integration
		Introduction
		Assimilation, Integration, and Inclusion: Origins and Meanings
			Assimilation
			Integration
			Inclusion
		Organisational Practices Associated with Assimilation, Integration, and Inclusion: A Fictional Vignette
		Conclusion
		References
	3: Organising (Refugee) Integration in Sweden: How It Begins
		Modes of Ordering
			Coordination
				Addition Ignoring Discrepancies
				Addition with Hierarchy
				Calibration
			Distribution
				Itinerary
				Indication Criteria
				Conditions of Possibility
				Accounting for Previous Realities
			Inclusion
				Transitive Inclusion
				Mutual Inclusion
		My Study
		Organising Refugees in Stockholm
		Conclusions
		References
	4: “Tough Love”: The Roles Played by Municipal Housing Corporations for Integration of Newly Arrived Immigrants in Vulnerable Neighbourhoods
		Data Collection
		The Role of Municipal Housing Corporations for Integration
		The Roles Played by Housing Corporations
			Doing Good and Being Business-like
			Activities to Improve the Neighbourhoods
			Tackling Wicked Problems: Step by Step and in Collaboration
		Discussion and Conclusions
		References
Part II: Integration, Translation and Change
	5: Procuring for Labour Market Integration
		5.1	 Integration Policy, Public Organisations, and Public Procurement
		5.2	 Using Procurement to Promote Employment
		5.3	 Social Considerations in Procurement: A Gothenburg Version
		5.4	 A Hampering Paradox, Shifting Towards Competence Supply and Effects
			5.4.1	 Local Considerations in an International Context
			5.4.2	 The Shift Towards Competence Supply
			5.4.3	 Effects and Calculated Benefits
		5.5	 A Device to Handle with Care
			5.5.1	 Sources Analysed
		References
	6: Emancipation Through Learning at Work: Work Cooperatives for “Unemployable” Immigrant Women
		Introduction
		The Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Affective Solidarity
		Yalla Trappan: A Foreign-Born Women’s Work Cooperative
		Are Labour Market Integration Programmes Oppressive?
		Alternative Practices: Organising Labour Market Integration Through Women Cooperatives
			Openness
			Togetherness
			Revealing “Womanness”
		Conclusion: Valorising Women’s Skills as a Road to Emancipation
		References
	7: Pluralised Attempts to Translate Refugees’ Labour Market Integration: Field Dynamics in Two Cases of “Promoting Accessibility” in Berlin
		Introduction
		Translating “Accessibility” in Organisational Fields
		Context and Design of the Study
		Translating Accessibility in the Field of Labour Market Integration in Berlin
			Job-Related Language Promotion
				Episode 1: The Long Summer of Migration (2015)
				Episode 2: Companies Challenge the Existing Field Regulation (2017/2018)
				Episode 3: Fragmentation on the Supply Side (2019)
			Creating “Berlin’s Overall Concept for the Integration and Participation of Refugees”
				Episode 1: The Concept Is Formed (2017)
				Episode 2: Thematic Working Groups and Elaboration of the Concept (2018)
				Episode 3: Problems in Most of the Voluntary and Refugee Organisations Remain (2018–2020)
		Discussion: Field Dynamics and Their Consequences for the Labour Market Integration of Refugees
		References
	8: The Italian Non-model. Integrating Immigrant Labour in Practice
		Immigration as a Political Issue
		Institutional Logics and Organisational Practices
		Market- and Community-Based Institutional Logics
		The Community-Based Model: The Riace Ambiguity
		Gender and Work Integration: A Complex Covenant
		Final Remarks
		References
	9: Integrating Recent Refugees into the Labour Market: The Action Net in Austria
		Introduction
		The Austrian Context
		The Action Net of Integrating Refugees into the Labour Market
		How the Action Net Changed After the Arrival of Refugees from Ukraine
		Discussion
		References
	10: Speaking Swedish: The Role of Language Skills in an Integration Support Project
		What Level of Swedish Is the “Right” One for Employability?
		A Project for Those Who Are Struggling the Most
			Emerging Challenges and Responses
			An Experiment, or a Model for the Future?
			Speaking and Writing Swedish: A Necessity for a Job?
		Language Tests: A Pragmatic Solution?
		References
	11: Organising the “Labour of Hope”: A Critical Take on the Role of Internships and Mentorships in Supporting Highly Skilled Immigrants into Jobs
		Introduction
		Why Is It Difficult for Highly Skilled Immigrants to Find a Job? Problems and Proposed Solutions
			Hoping for a Better Future
			The Research Setting
		Findings: The Labour of Hope
			Being Placed into “Some Kind of Activity”
			An Internship Will Lead to a Job…or At Least Another (Swedish) Item on Your CV
			A Mentoring Programme Will Get You a Job or At Least Will Develop You as a Person
			The Programmes “Bring You Closer to the Labour Market”: But at What Distance?
		Discussion: Organising Highly Skilled Immigrants’ Hopes for the Future
		References
Part III: Integration, When, Where and How Does It End?
	12: Older Immigrants’ Integration: Organisational Processes and Practices in the Australian Context
		Introduction
		Multiculturalism
		Mainstreaming Diversity
		Organisation of Care and Services for Older People in Australia
		Integration
		Incorporating the Life Course Perspective
		Method
		Results
			Migrant Support Organisations Engagement with Ageing Immigrants
			Supporting Cultural Autonomy, Language, and Identity in Later Life
		Organising Continued Integration for Older Immigrants
		Discussion and Conclusion
		References
	13: But You Are Not an Immigrant! On Nordic Immigration in a Cultural Perspective
		Denmark
			Scania Becomes Danish!
			A New Tribe: Regionauts
			“Brians”, Forest Dwellers and Love Refugees
		Finland
			The Early Novels
			The Second Generation
			Symmetrical Stereotypes
			Being an Underclass
			At a Distance
		Nordic but Not Scandinavian?
		References
	14: The “Integration Problem”: A View from the Rocking Chair
		The Problem and the View
		“Radical Hope” as a Solution
		The Problem of the Recipient: Clausewitz’s Logic of Tact
		Integration Without Crisis? (When Those Who Are to Be Integrated Have More Attractive Alternatives)
		Is There a Way to Make Sense of These Fragments Theoretically?
		But There Is No Crisis… or Is There?
		References
	15: Organising Integration: Some Conclusions and Directions for the Future
		Integration as a Boundary Word
		Organising Integration as Construction of Action Nets
		Agency Is Distributed and Shared, Not Individual
		To Conclude
		References
Index