Migration and Labour Market Integration

Information

Course leaders: Maja Cederberg and Andrea Spehar
Duration: TBC
Location: Online and University of Gothenburg
Language: English
Study pace: 100%

Course Description

This course is about migration, work and labour market integration. The search for higher wages and better employment opportunities form important motivations for migration, and migrant labour plays a key role in many economies and societies. While migrants tend to be disproportionately exposed to exploitation and poor working conditions, it is important to recognise the diverse ways in which migrants are incorporated into labour markets, ranging from low-paid jobs and precarious positions to well-paid and highly qualified employment. The course will look at different patterns of migrants’ employment incorporation and attend to the factors that shape them. This includes social divisions and inequalities linked to gender, class and processes of racialisation, as well as the role played by migration policies in shaping employment opportunities, conditions and rights for different groups and categories of migrants. Furthermore, migrants’ employment integration needs to be understood in the context of how labour markets transform. Students will engage with concepts such as flexibilisation, precariarisation, upskilling, deskilling and polarisation, and gain an understanding of how migration processes and labour market processes intersect. The course will address these issues at different levels: at the labour market and broader societal level, the organizational level, and at the micro-level, by considering migrants’ experiences and how they negotiate the barriers and opportunities they encounter.

Course Lecturers

TBA

How to Apply

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