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1. Integration på egen hand : En studie av invandrade kvinnoföretagare i Sverige
Sammanfattning : The principal aim of this thesis is to discover and analyse the motives that make immigrant women start their own businesses in Sweden and to investigate whether this is a way to achieve integration in working life. The empirical material consists of two types of interviews. LÄS MER
2. Voices of entrepreneurship and small business : immigrant enterprises in Kista, Stockholm
Sammanfattning : Immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship is a subject that has received increased attention in recent years. Many immigrants or people with ethnic backgrounds different from the majority population run their own businesses, in Sweden as well as in most countries and contexts in the world. LÄS MER
3. Immigrant entrepreneurs in a changing institutional context : a mixed embeddedness approach
Sammanfattning : Immigrant entrepreneurs are known to be heterogeneous in terms of available resources and entrepreneurial outcomes. However, this heterogeneity, as well as immigrant entrepreneurs’ embeddedness in social networks and the institutional context of high-income welfare states such as Sweden, remains understudied. LÄS MER
4. Empirical Essays on Wage Setting and Immigrant Labor Market Opportunities
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays.Essay 1: This essay estimates wage assimilation among non-western immigrants in Sweden, controlling for selection into employment by including individual fixed effects. LÄS MER
5. Den självorganiserade staden: appropriation av offentliga rum i Rinkeby
Sammanfattning : The objective of this dissertation is to analyse and discuss the issue of self-organisation from a spatial point of view. The thesis takes its point of departure firstly from the assumption that self-organisation concerns a process through which subjects aspire to become involved in societal development and decision-making from below, and secondly that self-organisation always takes place in a social and spatial context that establishes its conditions. LÄS MER