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Migration, Education and Employment

Pathways to Successful Integration

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Editors:
  1. Marianne Teräs

    1. Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  2. Ali Osman

    1. Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  3. Eva Eliasson

    1. Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Focuses on social justice as a key factor of democratic social policies
  • Illustrates global issues such as migration, integration, and recognition of immigrants' skills and educational level
  • Combines discussion of theories and empirical studies
  • Covers both first and second generation immigrants, integration to education and working life in their new countries
  • This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

Part of the book series: Education, Equity, Economy (EEEC, volume 10)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Integration in and Through Education and Employment

    • Marianne Teräs, Ali Osman, Eva Eliasson
    Pages 1-7Open Access
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  3. The Swedish Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Migrant Successfully Accessing Their Vocation in Sweden: The Significance Labour Market Initiatives to Facilitate the Integration of Migrants and Refugees

      • Ali Osman
      Pages 11-28Open Access
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    3. Understanding Recognition of Prior Learning as a Tool for the Labour Market Integration of Skilled Migrants

      • Per Andersson
      Pages 29-44Open Access
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    4. Potential, Actuality or Vulnerability? The Importance of Recognition in Career Counselling for Newly Arrived Migrants

      • Fredrik Hertzberg
      Pages 45-66Open Access
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    5. Important Encounters for Education and Employment

      • Eva Eliasson
      Pages 67-84Open Access
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    6. Education for Access to the Swedish Labour Market and Society: A Historical Comparison of Practices for the Integration of Immigrants in the 1960s and Early 2000s

      • Åsa Broberg, Lázaro Moreno Herrera
      Pages 85-97Open Access
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    7. Integration as a Conceptual Resource When Studying Skilled Migrants in the Workplace

      • Marianne Teräs
      Pages 99-112Open Access
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    8. Integration and the Art of Making a Society: The Case of Swedish Society

      • Petros Gougoulakis
      Pages 113-130Open Access
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  4. The Swiss and Norwegian Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Successful Integration of Refugees in Vocational Education and Training: Experiences from a New Pre-vocational Programme

      • Barbara E. Stalder, Marlise Kammermann, Iris Michel, Marie-Theres Schönbächler
      Pages 133-154Open Access
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    3. ‘Open Sesame’: Skilled Immigrants’ Experiences with Bridging Programmes in the Validation Process in Norway

      • Line Nortvedt, Astrid Gillespie, Kari Dahl, Ida Drange
      Pages 155-178Open Access
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    4. Multicultural Perspectives in Driving Instructor Education and Driving Schools for Professional Drivers in Norway

      • Tatjana Bru Blixen, Kai Andre Fegri, Ellen Beate Hellne-Halvorsen
      Pages 179-200Open Access
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    5. Concluding Remarks

      • Eva Eliasson, Ali Osman, Marianne Teräs
      Pages 201-203Open Access
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About this book

This is an open access book which focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants in three countries: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The chapters in this book reflect on these issues from micro, meso and macro perspectives; some are based on interviews with migrants and people who work with them, others on documents and literature about migration. There are different pathways for skilled migrants to vocations. Some start working in their previous vocations after arriving in the new environment. Some re-enter their professions but on a lower level. Some can re-train themselves in a new vocation, and some will go to further education, as studies in different chapters of this book suggest. Common for successful integration seems to be several intertwined factors: the target language competence, strong motivation and agency, supporting networks and supporting persons, as well as structural opportunities of the new environment. The book’s editorial board takes an eclectic view, hoping to start an academic debate about what ‘successful integration’ means. While discussions about the integration of migrants tend to focus on integration failures, there are millions of migrants, in different countries, who have successfully integrated into their new societies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Marianne Teräs, Ali Osman, Eva Eliasson

About the editors

​Marianne Teräs is Professor of Education in the Department of Education, Stockholm University, Sweden During the last 20 years, she has studied migration from the perspective of vocational education and training both in Finland and in Sweden. She led the research project focusing on integration and inclusion of migrants in and through vocation and work. The project was funded by The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare. 

Ali Osman is Associate Professor in the Department of Education, Stockholm University, Sweden. He has studied questions concerning migration over 25 years from various perspectives. He has studied multicultural discourses in adult education, migration and recognition of prior learning, school segregation and transitions between different educational systems and working life.


Eva Eliasson is Senior Lecturer in Educational Science in the Department of Education, Stockholm University, Sweden. She has studied vocational and teacher knowledge, especially in health care education, and the interplay between power relations and vocational knowledge. Her recent study focused on how skilled migrants in Sweden gain access to their previous vocation.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Migration, Education and Employment

  • Book Subtitle: Pathways to Successful Integration

  • Editors: Marianne Teräs, Ali Osman, Eva Eliasson

  • Series Title: Education, Equity, Economy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41919-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41917-1Published: 14 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41919-5Published: 13 October 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2364-835X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-8368

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 203

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Migration, Administration, Organization and Leadership

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