Abstract
The health care sector is an important arena for groups with a weak position in the labour market in Sweden. This project aims to investigate if immigrant women take part in the entrepreneurial process that is now evolving in this sector. It maps and analyses the mobility between public and private sectors from an entrepreneurial and gender perspective. It particularly investigates if entrepreneurship is a desirable way to promote immigrant careers and integration on the labour market and if restrictions are perceived for the mobility of this group. The project is expected to increase the knowledge of employment possibilities for distressed groups in the labour market, and also to improve regional development. It highlights new aspects on immigrant women’s labour market and entrepreneurship, such as possibilities of self-improvement and the potential to develop the sector in an innovative way. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods will be used within this project. A statistic survey will be done by use of a longitudinal database. Also, an interview study will be conducted with people from both private and public sectors.
Participating researchers: Charlotta Hedberg and Katarina Pettersson (Nordregio).
Funding: VINNOVA
Publications
- Pettersson, Katarina and Hedberg, Charlotta (2013). Moving out of 'their places'? - Immigrant women entrepreneurs in the care sector in Sweden. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 19(3): 345-361.
- Hedberg, Charlotta and Pettersson, Katarina (2011). Disadvantage, ethnic niching or pursuit of a vision? Motives of immigrant women care entrepreneurs in the ageing Swedish society. Journal of International Migration & Integration.
- Hedberg, Charlotta (2009). Intersections of ethnicity and gender in the Swedish entrepreneurial landscape. SULCIS working paper 2009:8, Stockholm University, 1-25.
- Pettersson, Katarina och Hedberg, Charlotta (2010). Eldsjälar inom vården, Invandrare och Minoriteter, 4, 39-41.