Ali Osman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4065206 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ali Osman |
| PRENOMES | Ali |
| SOBRENOME | Osman |
| ASSINATURA | OSMAN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9906-5389 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Pathways to occupational inclusion in host societies
Immigrants’ access to relevant jobs is crucial for social integration and better life chances. For migrants in regulated professions, occupational reintegration depends on accreditation of previous learning by national, sectorial authorities. These migrants face complex systems that both enable and hinder occupational reintegration. In this article, we examine skilled migrants’ pathways to their vocations in Norway and Sweden, with a special emph…
The Coffins of 'Irwt
One of the most beautiful coffins from the 21st Dynasty is the coffin of Lady "Irwt", which was discovered by the mission of the Egyptian University of Science and Technology working in the eastern Tabet Al-Geish area in Saqqara during the 2022 season. This unique coffin was found directly south of the temple of Hathor, which was partially uncovered in the 2021 season and fully uncovered in the 2022 season. The coffin was first discovered as a st…
Migration, Education and Employment
This open access book focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants. Free and unlimited online access 24/7!
Equity of spatial access to polling stations in selected regions in Ghana
Equity of access to electoral polling stations (EPS) is a key to enhancing the legitimacy of elections in democratic governance. A crucial characteristic of this equity is the level of spatial access to EPS and its distribution among populations and related socio-economic determinants. This study investigates the disparities of access to EPS for four selected regions in Ghana. The findings show that economic status and access to EPS are inversely…
From segregation to non-incorporation
Local School Desegregation Practices in Sweden
The focus of this paper is to examine the desegregation of hyper-segregated schools in Sweden. In this paper, our focus is on the practice(s) of desegregation in four Swedish municipalities. This study is based on interviews with municipal school politicians, school headmasters, and municipal school officials. Theoretically, the study departs from the theory of steering. This study shows that the municipalities use a strong belief in the peer eff…
‘Back to work’—factors facilitating migrants’ re-entry into their previous vocations
This article focuses on ‘successful migrants’, who have succeeded in gaining employment in Sweden in their previous vocational area. The aim is to describe factors on various levels – individual, organisational and national – that have facilitated migrants’ way back to work as well as their inclusion at workplaces. Twenty migrants and five employers/mentors were interviewed. The overarching theme of facilitating factors concerns language proficie…
Who is responsible for the hockey rink? – A critical analysis of a citizen dialogue meeting in a small Mill town
Sweden is often perceived as “a model welfare state” (Castell, 2013, p. 1) with a generous welfare system (Bergh, 2011). A substantial part of the welfare provision is organized and administered at
Momentums of success, illusio and habitus
Through interviews with 52 upper-secondary students from different socioeconomic, educational and migrant/native backgrounds, the article examines students’ own stories of what drives them to perform well in school. Different kinds of ‘illusios’ are reconstructed in terms of Bourdieu's sociology; Revanche, Proficiency, Fear of failing and Expectations. They relate to different forms of social energy and emotions, such as the desire for rehabilita…
Popular education by and for migrants. A study of preconditions for involvement of migrant study circle participants in the Swedish Workers’ Educational Association
This article explores the role of popular education for migrants in a social movement context. The aim of this study is to explore how migrants’ societal involvement is enabled and constrained by participation in study circles organised in a local branch of the Swedish Workers’ Educational Association (ABF). The study was designed and conducted in close cooperation with ABF. Drawing on the theory of practice architectures, the preconditions for i…
Being in limbo or learning to belong? – Telling the stories of asylum seekers in a mill town
This paper explores how young asylum seekers learn to belong to a local community. It takes its point of departure from a biographical and socially situated learning perspective and uses four analytical aspects of belonging: biographical experiences, engagement, imagination, and alignment. The data on which this paper is based are biographical interviews with five asylum seekers and field notes from a small mill town in Sweden. The findings show …
Narratives of the urban-rural divide
This paper explores learning trajectories in becoming ‘rural women’ in Sweden, by using a biographical and socially-situated learning perspective. The data is based on in-depth biographical interviews with three young women who moved between rural and urban areas, and finally decided to return to a rural area. The findings show three learning phases: the mythical, the questioning and the self-positioning phase. Furthermore, the paper identifies f…
Recipe for educational success
The focus of this paper is to investigate what type of support high-achieving Swedish upper secondary students from families with low socioeconomic and educational capital, identified contributed to embark on a successful educational career. The analytical framework of the study is concepts that have emerged in empirical studies inspired by both Coleman’s and Bourdieu’s understanding of social capital concerning educational performance. The data …
On a Nubian frontier — landscapes of settlement on the Third Cataract of the Nile, Sudan
Through the twentieth century much of the Nubian Nile Valley has seen archaeological survey and excavation, largely in response to its destruction by successive dams built at Aswan. The Mahas Survey Project of the University of Khartoum has continued this work on the Third Cataract approximately 700 km upriver of the First Cataract, within a survey concession extending over some 80 km of the Nile and its immediate hinterlands, an area now under t…
In Search of Green Pastures
The focus of this paper is on how transnational relations of Somali-Swedes shapes their onward immigration to the United Kingdom and intervenes in their educational and labour market career. The data for the study was collected using ethnographic interview methods in multiple locations: Stockholm, London and Birmingham and analysed using the concept of imagination as a social practice. The results of this study show that onward immigration of Som…
Being in limbo or learning to belong? – Telling the stories of asylum seekers in a mill town
This paper explores how young asylum seekers learn to belong to a local community. It takes its point of departure from a biographical and socially situated learning perspective and uses four analytical aspects of belonging: biographical experiences, engagement, imagination, and alignment. The data on which this paper is based are biographical interviews with five asylum seekers and field notes from a small mill town in Sweden. The findings show …
From segregation to non-incorporation
In Search of Green Pastures
The focus of this paper is on how transnational relations of Somali-Swedes shapes their onward immigration to the United Kingdom and intervenes in their educational and labour market career. The data for the study was collected using ethnographic interview methods in multiple locations: Stockholm, London and Birmingham and analysed using the concept of imagination as a social practice. The results of this study show that onward immigration of Som…
Who is responsible for the hockey rink? – A critical analysis of a citizen dialogue meeting in a small Mill town
Sweden is often perceived as “a model welfare state” (Castell, 2013, p. 1) with a generous welfare system (Bergh, 2011). A substantial part of the welfare provision is organized and administered at
On a Nubian frontier — landscapes of settlement on the Third Cataract of the Nile, Sudan
Through the twentieth century much of the Nubian Nile Valley has seen archaeological survey and excavation, largely in response to its destruction by successive dams built at Aswan. The Mahas Survey Project of the University of Khartoum has continued this work on the Third Cataract approximately 700 km upriver of the First Cataract, within a survey concession extending over some 80 km of the Nile and its immediate hinterlands, an area now under t…
On a Nubian frontier — landscapes of settlement on the Third Cataract of the Nile, Sudan
Through the twentieth century much of the Nubian Nile Valley has seen archaeological survey and excavation, largely in response to its destruction by successive dams built at Aswan. The Mahas Survey Project of the University of Khartoum has continued this work on the Third Cataract approximately 700 km upriver of the First Cataract, within a survey concession extending over some 80 km of the Nile and its immediate hinterlands, an area now under t…
In Search of Green Pastures
The focus of this paper is on how transnational relations of Somali-Swedes shapes their onward immigration to the United Kingdom and intervenes in their educational and labour market career. The data for the study was collected using ethnographic interview methods in multiple locations: Stockholm, London and Birmingham and analysed using the concept of imagination as a social practice. The results of this study show that onward immigration of Som…
Recipe for educational success
The focus of this paper is to investigate what type of support high-achieving Swedish upper secondary students from families with low socioeconomic and educational capital, identified contributed to embark on a successful educational career. The analytical framework of the study is concepts that have emerged in empirical studies inspired by both Coleman’s and Bourdieu’s understanding of social capital concerning educational performance. The data …
Momentums of success, illusio and habitus
Through interviews with 52 upper-secondary students from different socioeconomic, educational and migrant/native backgrounds, the article examines students’ own stories of what drives them to perform well in school. Different kinds of ‘illusios’ are reconstructed in terms of Bourdieu's sociology; Revanche, Proficiency, Fear of failing and Expectations. They relate to different forms of social energy and emotions, such as the desire for rehabilita…
Popular education by and for migrants. A study of preconditions for involvement of migrant study circle participants in the Swedish Workers’ Educational Association
This article explores the role of popular education for migrants in a social movement context. The aim of this study is to explore how migrants’ societal involvement is enabled and constrained by participation in study circles organised in a local branch of the Swedish Workers’ Educational Association (ABF). The study was designed and conducted in close cooperation with ABF. Drawing on the theory of practice architectures, the preconditions for i…
Being in limbo or learning to belong? – Telling the stories of asylum seekers in a mill town
This paper explores how young asylum seekers learn to belong to a local community. It takes its point of departure from a biographical and socially situated learning perspective and uses four analytical aspects of belonging: biographical experiences, engagement, imagination, and alignment. The data on which this paper is based are biographical interviews with five asylum seekers and field notes from a small mill town in Sweden. The findings show …
Narratives of the urban-rural divide
This paper explores learning trajectories in becoming ‘rural women’ in Sweden, by using a biographical and socially-situated learning perspective. The data is based on in-depth biographical interviews with three young women who moved between rural and urban areas, and finally decided to return to a rural area. The findings show three learning phases: the mythical, the questioning and the self-positioning phase. Furthermore, the paper identifies f…
Local School Desegregation Practices in Sweden
The focus of this paper is to examine the desegregation of hyper-segregated schools in Sweden. In this paper, our focus is on the practice(s) of desegregation in four Swedish municipalities. This study is based on interviews with municipal school politicians, school headmasters, and municipal school officials. Theoretically, the study departs from the theory of steering. This study shows that the municipalities use a strong belief in the peer eff…
‘Back to work’—factors facilitating migrants’ re-entry into their previous vocations
This article focuses on ‘successful migrants’, who have succeeded in gaining employment in Sweden in their previous vocational area. The aim is to describe factors on various levels – individual, organisational and national – that have facilitated migrants’ way back to work as well as their inclusion at workplaces. Twenty migrants and five employers/mentors were interviewed. The overarching theme of facilitating factors concerns language proficie…
Who is responsible for the hockey rink? – A critical analysis of a citizen dialogue meeting in a small Mill town
Sweden is often perceived as “a model welfare state” (Castell, 2013, p. 1) with a generous welfare system (Bergh, 2011). A substantial part of the welfare provision is organized and administered at
Migration, Education and Employment
This open access book focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants. Free and unlimited online access 24/7!
Equity of spatial access to polling stations in selected regions in Ghana
Equity of access to electoral polling stations (EPS) is a key to enhancing the legitimacy of elections in democratic governance. A crucial characteristic of this equity is the level of spatial access to EPS and its distribution among populations and related socio-economic determinants. This study investigates the disparities of access to EPS for four selected regions in Ghana. The findings show that economic status and access to EPS are inversely…
From segregation to non-incorporation
The Coffins of 'Irwt
One of the most beautiful coffins from the 21st Dynasty is the coffin of Lady "Irwt", which was discovered by the mission of the Egyptian University of Science and Technology working in the eastern Tabet Al-Geish area in Saqqara during the 2022 season. This unique coffin was found directly south of the temple of Hathor, which was partially uncovered in the 2021 season and fully uncovered in the 2022 season. The coffin was first discovered as a st…
Pathways to occupational inclusion in host societies
Immigrants’ access to relevant jobs is crucial for social integration and better life chances. For migrants in regulated professions, occupational reintegration depends on accreditation of previous learning by national, sectorial authorities. These migrants face complex systems that both enable and hinder occupational reintegration. In this article, we examine skilled migrants’ pathways to their vocations in Norway and Sweden, with a special emph…
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