”Olenko minä niin eksoottinen?”: Pakolaistaustaisten naisten työelämään liittyvä identiteettityö

Steel, Tytti; Tuori, Annamari

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“…Notes 1 We use the words migrant and foreign-born as synonyms to a person with foreign background, as defined by the Statistics Finland (http://www.stat.fi/meta/kas/ulko-maalaistaus_en.html). 2 In a previous project analysing interviews of female refugees (Steel & Tuori 2016), it became clear that focusing on the journey to Finland and immigrant identity moves the emphasis away from working life issues. 3For more on the fluid boundaries of analysis in research processes see, for instance, O'Dell & Willim 2011.…”

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Paradoxes of Mentoring: An Ethnographic Study of a Mentoring Programme for Highly-educated Women with Migrant Backgrounds

Steel¹,

Lämsä

Jyrkinen

2019

Cult. Unbound

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This article explores paradoxes that emerge in the mentoring of highly-educated, female, foreign-born job-seekers in Finland. Theoretically, the study is linked to the growing body of research scrutinising the integration or discrimination of migrants in working life. It analyses cultural practices and ideas that are visible and affect the mentoring interaction. On a more practical level, the paper determines how the mentors and mentees experience the mentoring, and how intercultural mentoring could be improved in order to promote mentees’ employment. The article is based on ethnography and 11 semi-structured interviews. Two major paradoxes and their links to cultural meanings were identified: the over-emphasised focus on Finnish language (the language paradox), and the myth of the strong Finnish woman (the support paradox). These can be seen as having aspects of both cultural awareness and situation-specific awareness. Using situation-specific awareness, some mentors understood the best way forward was to break the rules of the mentoring programme and not to use Finnish in all communication. This enabled a more equal setting for professional discussions. In some rare cases, when the mentors did not use situation-specific awareness, a vicious circle emerged and mentees felt even worse about their abilities and working life opportunities. Similarly, although the myth of the strong Finnish woman can be an empowering and positive model for the mentee, it can have a negative impact on the mentor, enabling undercurrents in the mentoring discussions which can be experienced as harsh and even hostile. This, instead of encouraging and supporting, can result in the undermining and ‘othering’ of the mentee.

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Paradoxes of Mentoring: An Ethnographic Study of a Mentoring Programme for Highly-educated Women with Migrant Backgrounds

Steel¹,

Lämsä

Jyrkinen

2019

Cult. Unbound

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“…1 We use the words migrant and foreign-born as synonyms to a person with foreign background, as defined by the Statistics Finland (http://www.stat.fi/meta/kas/ulko-maalaistaus_en.html). 2 In a previous project analysing interviews of female refugees (Steel & Tuori 2016), it became clear that focusing on the journey to Finland and immigrant identity moves the emphasis away from working life issues. 3For more on the fluid boundaries of analysis in research processes see, for instance, O'Dell & Willim 2011.…”

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2019

Cult. Unbound

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Sweden is often described as a country where secularization has come comparatively far. At the same time, state and church have remained relatively close, especially before the enactment of the decisions of increased separation of church and state in 2000. Sweden is also a country where the built heritage of the established church enjoys a strong legal protection. When relations between the state and the established church were reformed in 2000, this protection was left in place. This article offers an analysis of the significance ascribed to ecclesiastical heritage in the form of Church of Sweden heritage churches in government policy, focusing on the process leading up to the separation of church and state in year 2000. Using Mircea Eliade's understanding of the sacred and the profane as a starting point for my analysis, I contextualize the significance of heritage churches is in the wider context of a post-Christian, and more specifically post-Lutheran, secularized society. I suggest that the ongoing heritagization of Church of Sweden's church buildings could be seen as a process where they are decontextualized from the denominationally-specific religiosity of the Church of Sweden, but rather than being re-contextualized only as secular heritage, they could be more clearly understood as becoming the sacred places, and objects, of a post-Lutheran civil religion and generalized religiosity, i.e. not simply a disenchantment, but also a re-enchantment. This could be understood as a continuation of traditions of approaching memory, and the sacred, developed in a society characterized by the near hegemony of the established church in the religious sphere, but also in partially counter-clerical movements, such as the Romantic movement.

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EXPECTATIONS AND EXPERIENCES: Highly educated migrant women in the Finnish labour market

Lehtovaara

2017

Rev. Itinerarius Reflectionis

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Gender is at the core of migration. There is need of research that explores interconnections between gender and employment. The research addresses how gendered structures and the processes of working life are reflected among the skilled migrant women in the Finnish labour market.Key-words: gender studies, migrant studies, integration, employment, intersectionality.Gênero está no centro da imigração. Há necessidade de pesquisas que explorem as interconexões entre gênero e empregabilidade. A pesquisa mostra como estruturas de gênero e o processo da vida trabalhista estão refletidos em mulheres imigrantes diplomadas no mercado de trabalho finlandês.Palavras-chave: estudos de gênero, estudos migratórios, integração, empregabilidade, interseccionabilidade.

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”Olenko minä niin eksoottinen?”: Pakolaistaustaisten naisten työelämään liittyvä identiteettityö

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Paradoxes of Mentoring: An Ethnographic Study of a Mentoring Programme for Highly-educated Women with Migrant Backgrounds

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