Trajectories of Newly Arrived Migrants in the Swedish Introduction Program

Elin Ennerberg

doi:10.16993/njtcg.33

Trajectories of Newly Arrived Migrants in the Swedish Introduction Program

Nordic Journal of Transitions, Careers and Guidance

Volume 2 (2021): Issue 1

By: Elin Ennerberg

Open Access

|Sep 2021

Abstract

In a 2010 policy reform, the centre-right Swedish government attempted to bring the area of integration policy into closer alignment with labour market policy for newly arrived migrants. In this paper, empirical data gathered from 181 individual case files from the Public Employment Service (PES) is used to analyse the different trajectories of migrants. I construct a typology of five different sub-groups to explore how migrants manage the different challenges of the policy program. The main contribution of the article is to highlight the individual differences among the group and how various strategies are formed within the same policy framework.

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