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Vikdahl, L., Gunnarsson, D. & Larsson, S. (2024). This is what it is like to be church: The Church of Sweden’s conditions for work with newly arrived refugees. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 25, 191-207
Open this publication in new window or tab >>This is what it is like to be church: The Church of Sweden’s conditions for work with newly arrived refugees
2024 (English)In: Journal of International Migration and Integration, ISSN 1488-3473, E-ISSN 1874-6365, Vol. 25, p. 191-207Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Many newly arrived refugees suffer from mental health problems due to trauma. Research has shown that social participation after migration, such as taking part in social activities, networks and community work, is important for mental health and well-being. In Sweden, many civil society organisations, such as the Church of Sweden, take great responsibility for the establishment and integration of new arrivals. At the same time, the role of civil society organisations in the welfare society is not obvious, and the place of religious communities is sometimes challenged. Due to today’s growing secular and globalised society, the role of the Church of Sweden has changed. Its power has decreased, and the indications are that this will continue. There are also circumstances that point to the church having to adapt to the norms of secular society to have an impact. As the Church of Sweden fulfils an important function as a provider of welfare services, not least in work with newly arrived refugees, this article studies how the employees of the Church of Sweden feel about their conditions for this work and what guides it. It is based on a qualitative study of 19 interviews with employees in 4 different parishes.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2024
Keywords
Refugees, Secularisation, Social participation, Civil organisations, Church of Sweden
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Historical Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51818 (URN)10.1007/s12134-023-01053-5 (DOI)001016381100001 ()2-s2.0-85162913711 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2016-07194
Available from: 2023-06-27 Created: 2023-06-27 Last updated: 2024-04-09Bibliographically approved
Zackariasson, M., Gunnarsson, D. & Wollin, E. (Eds.). (2023). Det komplexa uppdraget: kulturanalytiska perspektiv på skola, förskola och fritidshem. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Det komplexa uppdraget: kulturanalytiska perspektiv på skola, förskola och fritidshem
2023 (Swedish)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2023. p. 204
National Category
Ethnology Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51346 (URN)9789144159805 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-04-18 Created: 2023-04-18 Last updated: 2023-06-16Bibliographically approved
Zackariasson, M., Gunnarsson, D. & Wollin, E. (2023). Kulturanalytiska perspektiv på skola, förskola och fritidshem: en introduktion. In: Maria Zackariasson; David Gunnarsson; Elisabeth Wollin (Ed.), Det komplexa uppdraget: kulturanalytiska perspektiv på skola, förskola och fritidshem (pp. 13-38). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kulturanalytiska perspektiv på skola, förskola och fritidshem: en introduktion
2023 (Swedish)In: Det komplexa uppdraget: kulturanalytiska perspektiv på skola, förskola och fritidshem / [ed] Maria Zackariasson; David Gunnarsson; Elisabeth Wollin, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2023, p. 13-38Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [sv]

Frågor runt skola och förskola diskuteras i en rad olika sammanhang och av en mängd olika personer – i politiken, i tidningar, tv och radio, sociala medier, i forskningen, i vardagliga samtal mellan grannar i trappuppgången eller föräldrar som hämtar sina barn på fritids och, givetvis, av de som arbetar inom skolan. I och med att vi alla har personlig erfarenhet av skolan och väldigt många också av förskolan och av att ha sina barn i skola och förskola, tenderar frågor inom detta område att väcka engagemang och åsikter. Samtidigt är skolkontexten en komplex arena när det gäller relationer, interaktion, roller, föreställningar, normer och praktiker.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2023
National Category
Ethnology Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51347 (URN)9789144159805 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-04-18 Created: 2023-04-18 Last updated: 2023-07-03Bibliographically approved
Gunnarsson, D., Larsson, S. & Vikdahl, L. (2023). Legal Conditions for Refugees’ Mental Health: Implications of Legislative Changes in Programs for Newly Arrived Refugees in Sweden. Challenges, 14(3), 1-16
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Legal Conditions for Refugees’ Mental Health: Implications of Legislative Changes in Programs for Newly Arrived Refugees in Sweden
2023 (English)In: Challenges, E-ISSN 2078-1547, Vol. 14, no 3, p. 1-16Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

As the number of refugees in the world is increasing and it is known that social inequality negatively impacts mental health, it is important to study integration policies, such as labour market measures. In this article, the strategic interventions of the Swedish Public Employment Service are analysed to determine how the agency’s management handled and implemented the legal changes in the new support document for its case workers. The focus is on the effects of the changes in the legal text that transferred the responsibility for establishment initiatives for newly arrived migrants to the agency and, as a result, changed the conditions for newly arrived refugees’ mental health in the new establishment programme. Eight people representing different management functions at the agency were interviewed. The results show that the intention in the new programme to view newly arrived refugees in the same way as all other unemployed people, rather than as a special category, has meant that less attention is paid to the refugees’ mental health, and the opportunities for the agency’s street-level bureaucrats to help clients have decreased. In the face of predicted growing numbers of people having to abandon their homes due to conflicts and climate changes, governmental strategies such as these needs to be revisited in order for societies worldwide to be better prepared for that challenge.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Basel: MDPI, 2023
Keywords
mental health; social participation; labour market; newly arrived refugees; the Swedish Public Employment Service; establishment programme; street-level bureaucrats
National Category
Social Work International Migration and Ethnic Relations
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-52060 (URN)10.3390/challe14030032 (DOI)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2016-07194
Available from: 2023-08-22 Created: 2023-08-22 Last updated: 2024-04-30Bibliographically approved
Gunnarsson, D. (2023). Religion, existentiella frågor och empati: medvaro, undervisning och ledarskap i fritidshemmet. In: Zackariasson, Maria; Gunnarsson, David; Wollin, Elisabeth (Ed.), Det komplexa uppdraget: Kulturanalytiska perspektiv på skola, förskola och fritidshem (pp. 145-165). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Religion, existentiella frågor och empati: medvaro, undervisning och ledarskap i fritidshemmet
2023 (Swedish)In: Det komplexa uppdraget: Kulturanalytiska perspektiv på skola, förskola och fritidshem / [ed] Zackariasson, Maria; Gunnarsson, David; Wollin, Elisabeth, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2023, p. 145-165Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2023
National Category
Ethnology Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51877 (URN)9789144159805 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-07-03 Created: 2023-07-03 Last updated: 2023-07-03Bibliographically approved
Larsson, S. ., Gunnarsson, D. & Vikdahl, L. (2022). Social Participation and Mental Health in the Establishment Programme for Newly Arrived Refugees in Sweden—A Document Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(8), Article ID 4518.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Social Participation and Mental Health in the Establishment Programme for Newly Arrived Refugees in Sweden—A Document Analysis
2022 (English)In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, ISSN 1661-7827, E-ISSN 1660-4601, Vol. 19, no 8, article id 4518Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers constitute a vulnerable population in terms of health and social conditions due to lived trauma and experiences of loss, as well as factors in the host country such as not speaking the language, not having employment and social exclusion. Studies have shown that many newly arrived refugees find it difficult to establish a sustainable position in the host country’s labour market due to a lack of connections, low levels of education and politi-cal, social and cultural barriers. The Swedish Public Employment Service runs an establishment programme aimed at helping newly arrived refugees to find employment quickly and manage their own livelihoods. In this study, we analyse the administrator support document used by Swedish Public Employment Service case workers in their work with the programme to explore whether and how it considers the participants’ mental health and conditions for social participation. The results show that despite newly arrived refugees being especially vulnerable in terms of mental health, little attention is paid to these aspects, the possible effects they may have on the programme, the participants’ integration into the labour market and Swedish society as a whole.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI, 2022
Keywords
establishment programme, labour market, mental health, newly arrived refugees, social participation, the Swedish Public Employment Service, administrative personnel, adult, article, attention, employment, female, human, human experiment, job market, male, refugee, social worker, Sweden
National Category
International Migration and Ethnic Relations
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-48807 (URN)10.3390/ijerph19084518 (DOI)000785239200001 ()35457384 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85127633272 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2016-07194
Available from: 2022-04-22 Created: 2022-04-22 Last updated: 2022-05-06Bibliographically approved
Gunnarsson, D. (2021). Den systerskapliga etnologin och forskarens ansvar (1ed.). In: Kim Silow Kallenberg; Jenny Ingridsdotter; David Gunnarsson (Ed.), Frihet! Politik! Systerskap!: (pp. 87-93). Huddinge: Södertörns högskola
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Den systerskapliga etnologin och forskarens ansvar
2021 (Swedish)In: Frihet! Politik! Systerskap! / [ed] Kim Silow Kallenberg; Jenny Ingridsdotter; David Gunnarsson, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2021, 1, p. 87-93Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2021 Edition: 1
National Category
Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-46428 (URN)978-91-89109-72-8 (ISBN)978-91-89109-73-5 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-09-17 Created: 2021-09-17 Last updated: 2021-09-17Bibliographically approved
Silow Kallenberg, K., Ingridsdotter, J. & Gunnarsson, D. (Eds.). (2021). Frihet! Politik! Systerskap!. Huddinge: Södertörns högskola
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Frihet! Politik! Systerskap!
2021 (Swedish)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

I den här boken medverkar lärare och forskare som på olika sätt adresserar något eller flera av orden frihet, politik och systerskap. En rad vetenskapliga essäer ger bland annat läsaren inblick i alpackors skapande av systerlig gemenskap tillsammans med människor, systerskap som politiskt begrepp, frågor om forskares ansvar, akademiskt systerskap, skrivande som feministisk gemenskap, post-migranters erfarenheter och identitetsskapande samt mycket annat. Detta är en vänbok till Beatriz Lindqvist, professor i etnologi, och texterna har därför funnit inspiration i hennes person och forskargärning.

Beatriz Lindqvist har varit en drivande person i uppbyggnaden av etnologiämnet på Södertörns högskola. Hon har även haft ett stort engagemang i lärarutbildningen, såväl genom deltagande i råd och undervisning som genom hennes förskoleinriktade forskning.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2021. p. 171
National Category
Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45379 (URN)978-91-89109-72-8 (ISBN)978-91-89109-73-5 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-08-27 Created: 2021-08-27 Last updated: 2022-03-29Bibliographically approved
Gunnarsson, D. (2021). Gräsrotsbyråkratens förhandlingar med riktlinjer och pragmatik: mångfald, religion och sekularism i folkhemmet. In: Ali Hajighasemi; Jørgen Straarup (Ed.), Socialt arbete i ett mångkulturellt Sverige: migrationens bidrag till folkhemmet (pp. 110-124). Stockholm: Liber
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Gräsrotsbyråkratens förhandlingar med riktlinjer och pragmatik: mångfald, religion och sekularism i folkhemmet
2021 (Swedish)In: Socialt arbete i ett mångkulturellt Sverige: migrationens bidrag till folkhemmet / [ed] Ali Hajighasemi; Jørgen Straarup, Stockholm: Liber, 2021, p. 110-124Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Liber, 2021
National Category
Ethnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45983 (URN)9789147140589 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-06-28 Created: 2021-06-28 Last updated: 2021-06-28Bibliographically approved
Sorgenfrei, S., Thurfjell, D., Bergdahl, L., Bergkvist, M., Berglund, J., Borevi, K., . . . Åström, K. (2021). Mångreligiositet och sekularitet i svenskt polisväsende, vård, skola och offentlig förvaltning: en forskningsöversikt. Huddinge: Södertörns högskola
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Mångreligiositet och sekularitet i svenskt polisväsende, vård, skola och offentlig förvaltning: en forskningsöversikt
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2021 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Under de senaste decennierna har Sverige genomgått stora demografiska och politiska förändringar. Tillsammans har dessa inneburit att Sverige idag samtidigt är ett av Europas mest sekulariserade och mest mångreligiösa länder. Den snabba demografiska förändring Sverige har genomgått har ställt många inför nya, stora och i vissa fall skyndsamma kunskapsbehov samtidigt är forskningen om situationen delvis eftersatt. I denna rapport identifieras hur den nya situationen relaterar till det lagstadgade uppdrag som svenskt polisväsende, vård, skola och offentlig förvaltning har. Den forskning som gjorts inom dessa områden sammanfattas och de viktigaste forskningsbehoven identifieras.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2021. p. 67
Series
IMS rapportserie ; 1
Keywords
Religion, mångreligiositet, mångkultur, sekularitet, IMS, polis, skola, vård, förvaltning
National Category
Religious Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-44285 (URN)
Available from: 2021-02-18 Created: 2021-02-18 Last updated: 2024-09-23Bibliographically approved
Organisations
Identifiers
ORCID iD: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-3848-0869

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