Anticipating the Globalisation of Labour: Finnish Women as Immigrant and Offshore Labour for the Swedish Economy

Rahikainen, Marjatta

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“…In Snellman's data, a Finnish woman recalls the moment that shaped her life for good, estimating that it took "about two hours" to decide after she was asked to become a live-in domestic help for relatives in Sweden. A babysitter, a live-in maid, or domestic help were indeed the typical first occupations for females (Rahikainen 2007). This occupation enabled girls to immigrate to Sweden at an early age right after their compulsory education, and many of these girls were not older than fifteen.…”

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“…Usually girls moved to better paying factory jobs as soon as they turned eighteen. Often the employers, at least if they were relatives who had invited the girl from Finland, helped their babysitter to find a job at the factory right after her eighteenth birthday (Rahikainen 2007;Snellman 2003, 116). For Swedish families, a Finnish girl was most likely the second-best alternative, if a Swedish girl was not available.…”

Section: "Finnish Jobs"mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Apple Never Falls Far from the Tree—Or does It? Finnish Female Migrant Transnational Generations on the Swedish Labor Market

Snellman

Weckström

2017

Journal of Finnish Studies

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Migration from Finland to Sweden has taken place throughout times, yet the Westward migration reached its peak during the 1960s and 1970s: half a million Finns migrated to Sweden, predominately motivated by employment opportunities. This article is about Finnish female labor migrants, their daily experiences in the Swedish labor market, and the experiences of these labor migrants' transnational generations. We studied the education, career choices, and occupational opportunities of both groups and found that little upward mobility can be detected. This, however, does not translate to dissatisfaction in the women we studied; on the contrary, both generations were content with their careers. In our data, the experience of the Finnish language as a burden in a professional setting seems to have carried over to the next generation, as only a few spoke of their bilingualism as a real asset.

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Section: "Finnish Jobs"mentioning

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Section: "Finnish Jobs"mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Apple Never Falls Far from the Tree—Or does It? Finnish Female Migrant Transnational Generations on the Swedish Labor Market

Snellman

Weckström

2017

Journal of Finnish Studies

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“…Agricultural labor migrant‐sending households typically are engaged in additional income‐earning activities. Among the migrants, male‐labor and female‐labor migrants might not earn the same remittance (Light, 2007; Rahikainen, 2007). Consequently, male‐migrated labor could affect agriculture differently from female labor migrants (Adham, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

Do female labor‐migrated households have lower productivity? Empirical evidence from rural rice farms in Bangladesh

Sarker,

Salam,

Firdaus

2023

Growth and Change

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The labor movement from rural areas and the remittance flow from migrants is a common household livelihood strategy in rural Bangladesh. While migration can offer economic benefits through remittances, it can be a source of hardship for migrants and their families due to societal culture. This study examines the differences in farm productivity and technical efficiency between female and male labor migrants by focusing on female and male laborers who have lived away from their homes for 6 months or more within the country and its reflection on farm production. Using data on 2271 rice plots from Bangladesh Integrated Households Survey in 2018, we estimate plot‐level stochastic meta‐frontier approach for households with female‐labor migrants and male‐labor migrants separately emphasizing technological difference and heteroskedastic technical efficiency. The empirical result shows that the female‐labor migrants' farms have 10.3% lower production frontier (maximum frontier yield) and 6.1% higher technical efficiency than male migrants' farms, indicating that they have 4.2% lower productivity. Lower production frontier reflects lower management ability and less attention to farm practice. Moreover, the study reveals that female‐labor migrants' farms are closer to the meta‐frontier, suggesting smaller technology gaps. However, some farmers failed to achieve the highest possible output in relation to the meta‐frontier, indicating that farmers can boost their production by adopting and disseminating new rice production technology.

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“…Previous scholarship has extensively discussed the role played by immigrants in the transformation of the Kano textile trade and production (Chen & Liu, 2015;Hu & Liu, 2014;Monson, 2013). Scholarly works on this phenomenon have also proliferated, in terms of its role in growth and economic transformation (Agyemang & Lehman, 2013;Rahikainen, 2007;Robinson, 2011). Chinese immigrants are an established community that are willing to adopt the vagaries of the local culture (Mahadi, 1983;Uba Adamu, 1998).…”

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The End of History: The Role of Immigrants in Kano Textile Industry

Muhammad

2018

MJIR

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This paper sets out to present immigrants' efforts and contributions in making Kano the largest textile trade entrepôt and production centre. It covers the span of seven centuries from pre-colonial, colonial to post-colonial times. This paper argues that immigrants played central role in the transformation of the Kano textile industry. The transformation of Kano from a tribal backwater to a remarkable textile hub was made possible through the assimilation and integration of different groups of immigrants. Importantly, it discusses the Chinese immigrants' phenomena in occupying Kano market, where they forcefully drew back the wheel of Kano textile growth to the disadvantage of the local economy with their competitive advantage. This paper concludes that exploitations by immigrants have changed the historical narratives of Kano textile industry from one based on local economic growth to external power exploitation.

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Anticipating the Globalisation of Labour: Finnish Women as Immigrant and Offshore Labour for the Swedish Economy

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

The Apple Never Falls Far from the Tree—Or does It? Finnish Female Migrant Transnational Generations on the Swedish Labor Market

The Apple Never Falls Far from the Tree—Or does It? Finnish Female Migrant Transnational Generations on the Swedish Labor Market

Do female labor‐migrated households have lower productivity? Empirical evidence from rural rice farms in Bangladesh

The End of History: The Role of Immigrants in Kano Textile Industry

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