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Female Immigrants’ Health and Working Conditions in Sweden
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9059-599X
2007 (English)In: The international journal of diversity in organisations, communities and nations, ISSN 1447-9583, Vol. 7, no 2, p. 275-286Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Sweden is one of the European countries that has successively changed from a mainly ethnically homogeneous society into a multi-ethnic society. In 2001, almost 20 per cent of the Swedish population was classified as immigrants, i.e., they were either born abroad and naturalized, of foreign nationality or born in Sweden with at least one parent who had been born abroad. Reports, statistics and research have shown that the health of female immigrants is worse than that of the total population and that the incidence of long-term sickness absence and early retirement is higher in this group. The overall aim of this article is to describe, understand and analyze factors that contribute to poor health among female immigrants in Sweden from the perspective of class, gender and ethnicity. Being unemployed, on sick leave or working in occupation with low income and low status are examples that are related to class position, gender and ethnicity. The main three aspects based on class are wage, professional status and female immigrants position in the hierarchical work organisation. Other factors are discrimination due to ethnicity and gender, unfavourable physical and psychosocial work environment and absence of opportunities for skills upgrade training. Experiences of rape, domestic violence, unanswered emotional and sexual needs and patriarchal culture are examples that are related to gender. And experiencing traumatic events (in pre-migration periods such as experiences of war, prison, etc. and in post-migration periods such as experiences of discrimination and racism) are examples that are related to ethnicity.

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2007. Vol. 7, no 2, p. 275-286
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-24203OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-24203DiVA, id: diva2:688004
Available from: 2014-01-15 Created: 2014-01-15 Last updated: 2015-06-02Bibliographically approved

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