Work-life balance for transnational skilled workers in Sweden

Abstract

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Family practices, deportability and administrative violence: an ethnographic study on asylum seekers’ family life in the Swedish migration context

“…Mirroring previous research, the participants described how the process of seeking asylum has unsettled their family practices, having an impact not only on how they relate to one another and discuss their family life, but also how they view questions about their social life, health, work, the future and more (Hynie, 2018a;Ashbourne et al, 2021). Although the research participants come from different parts of the world and their rationales for engaging in an asylum-seeking process vary, they are united in this experience of finding themselves in a situation of unsettled family practices, which are related to their position as asylum seekers, of not being allowed to work (cf., Ivana, 2020), of not always being able to uphold previous social roles, statuses, and more.…”