Futures in line? Occupational choice among migrant adult students in Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11423915 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magnus Dahlstedt (0000-0003-0694-5753, Linköping University, corresponding author), Andreas Fejes (0000-0002-9916-8705, Linköping University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76-87 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Lifelong Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-1370 • E-ISSN: 1464-519X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02601370.2018.1497719 |
| OpenAlex | W2868057010 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 13 |
The aim of this article is to analyse the ways in which migration plays out in adult students’ narratives about their occupational choice and future, focusing on three individual narratives of adult students with various experiences of migration to Sweden. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s conception of orientation, our results show how the adult students’ narratives on their future occupations are formed on the basis of migration, pertaining to their particular experiences of being recognised as migrant Others. Among the three students, similar challenges emerge in terms of their claims for belonging. One the one hand, the students do claim belonging to the Swedish social community. On the other hand, they are – as ‘migrants’ – repeatedly reminded of their non-belonging to this community. In various ways, they feel out of place. Although migration, in the narratives, is not played out one and the same way, but in various ways, engagement in adult education as a means of finding a job appear as the main orientation guiding the futures of the adult students, as being an important way of finding a future and claim one’s belonging to the Swedish social community
Adult education · Futures contract · Narrative · Pedagogy · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Psychology · Social Psychology
Choosing Without Choice
Organising special education support in adult education
Study and career counselling in Swedish adult education
Unraveling Integration
Temporality and space in highly skilled migrants’ experiences of education and work in the rural north of Sweden
Chilean Migrants in the Swedish Context from the 1970s until Recently
Black Skin, White Masks
Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State
Reimagineering the Nation
Conceptions of Immigrant Integration and Racism Among Social Workers in Sweden
Åkesson at Almedalen
Opening discourses of citizenship education
A phenomenology of whiteness
Orientations
Crisis of Solidarity? Changing Welfare and Migration Regimes in Sweden
The end of Swedish exceptionalism? Citizenship, neoliberalism and the politics of exclusion
This other and other others
| Citations per year | 1.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |