Social Inclusion, Qualified Jobs and the ICT Labor Market

Abstract

The project investigates the conditions under which persons with different kinds of immigrant backgrounds get qualified jobs. I examine one firm in the ICT sector in Kista Science City. I show how different kinds of persons get different kinds of jobs. The assignment of jobs relates to the background of the employee, the opportunity structures and various structural relations related to gender, class and ethnicity. I show how persons with immigrant backgrounds can get good jobs and compare women and men and persons without immigrant backgrounds to those with different kinds of immigrant background.

Keywords

Intersectionality, Segmentation, Social exclusion/inclusion, capital bridges, qualified jobs

Publications

Co-author with Mia Gray, Tomoko Kurihara, and Leif Hommen, ‘Networks of Exclusion: Job Segmentation and Gendered Social Networks in the Knowledge Economy,’ Equal Opportunities International, Volume 46, Number 2, 2007: pages 144-161.

‘The Limits and Possibilities of Ethnic Entrepreneurship: The Case of ICT Firms in Sweden,’ International Journal of Multicultural Studies (IJMS), Volume 8, Number 1, 2006: pages 84-101.