What is it about?
How resourceful, job-seeking migrant women perceive that the competences and education they acquired from their country of origin are received in Norway, and how their job-seeking experiences influence their work-related self-efficacy and identity. They experience a downgrading of their education and competences. Because their active efforts have not led to work, they have nearly given up trying to gain entry into the Norwegian workforce, - and their self-efficacy beliefs and identity regarding having a professional career are weakened.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show how resourceful, job-seeking migrant women in Norway perceive that their competences and education from their countries of origin are not seen as valuable in terms of Norwegian expertise and employee qualities. Their affiliation and position conflict with both what they expected to achieve and workfare in Norwegian society; their competences from their countries of origin are not perceived as valuable enough in terms of Norwegian expertise and employee qualities.
Perspectives
The women I interviewed show that perceptions of self-efficacy are not a static concept but take shape through interactions. Although the interviewees are very active in their job search, in the end, they are “objects” of others’ control, namely, from potential employers, who can be seen as representatives of the Norwegian majority. It cannot be excluded that the interviewees are exposed to a conscious or an unconscious ethnic discrimination by the employers. The challenges in obtaining access to the Norwegian labour market also affect female immigrants who have many resources, not just those with a lack of resources.
Anita Røysum
Hogskolen i Oslo og Akershus
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This page is a summary of: The job-seeking experiences of resourceful female immigrants and the impact on their self-efficacy beliefs, European Journal of Social Work, May 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2018.1476328.
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