Emancipation Through Learning at Work: Work Cooperatives for “Unemployable” Immigrant Women

Maria Norbäck () and María José Zapata Campos ()
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Maria Norbäck: University of Gothenburg
María José Zapata Campos: University of Gothenburg

Chapter 6 in Organising Immigrants' Integration, 2023, pp 89-108 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Traditional methods for labour market integration of foreign-born citizens have failed to reach groups that do not “fit” conventional practices. Paradoxically, these standardised programmes can be experienced by the participants as inefficient and oppressive. Informed by the study of the women’s work cooperative Yalla Trappan, this chapter shows how these alternative practices redefine traditional methods for organising labour market integration of immigrant women with no previous work experience and very low levels of formal education and how they deliver not only jobs but also a sense of freedom, self-sufficiency, emancipation, and personal development. The analysis is grounded in Freire’s pedagogy of the oppressed, and the idea of affective solidarity put forward by feminist scholars.

Keywords: Pedagogy of the oppressed; Openness; Togetherness; Logic of “womanness”; Caregiving (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26821-2_6

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