Background: Getting older means a series of changes in life, some of which lead toincreased risk of poor health outcomes. Older people who immigrate to a new countryalso need to adapt to new cultures and norms, and having to learn a new language inorder to communicate with their environment. Being older and immigrant thus leads toa double vulnerability. Aim: The aim of this literature review was to examine how olderimmigrants? health is affected by not being able to communicate in a country?s officiallanguage.

In Sweden there is an integration policy and a policy for national minorities. The integration policy aims to integrate newly arrived immigrants (nyanlända invandrare), whereas the minority policy aims to maintain and strengthen the rights of the national minorities. The national minorities are though, at times, included into the integration policy, even though they hold a minority status in Sweden. This paper aims to, through discourse analysis, investigate the research question: ?how is the content of integration referred to, when it is related to immigrants, contra when it is related to national minorities?.

This study is about the work of including immigrants to the Swedish society. The reason that we chose Landskrona community is that it is a town with a high population of immigrants. The purpose of this work has been to examine how projectleaders reflect about the work of integration in Landskrona and their point of view regarding the term integration. Our questions were: what is the projectleaders view on the term integration, how does the projectleaders reflect about the work of integration in Landskrona, how would the projectleaders like the work of integration to be, how does the projecleaders reflect about the future work of integration in Landskrona.We used a qualitative method to do this study and interviewed six persons who all work in various projects, that are working for including immigrants to the Swedish society.Our main results in our study is various kinds of thoughts and reflections of the work of integration in Landskrona, but there were some things that were more approaching than others. There is a high ambition of integrate immigrants into the Swedish society in Landskrona and the projectleaders had all many reflections of their work.

In Sweden there is an integration policy and a policy for national minorities. The integration policy aims to integrate newly arrived immigrants (nyanlända invandrare), whereas the minority policy aims to maintain and strengthen the rights of the national minorities. The national minorities are though, at times, included into the integration policy, even though they hold a minority status in Sweden. This paper aims to, through discourse analysis, investigate the research question: ?how is the content of integration referred to, when it is related to immigrants, contra when it is related to national minorities?.

In Sweden there is an integration policy and a policy for national minorities. The integration policy aims to integrate newly arrived immigrants (nyanlända invandrare), whereas the minority policy aims to maintain and strengthen the rights of the national minorities. The national minorities are though, at times, included into the integration policy, even though they hold a minority status in Sweden. This paper aims to, through discourse analysis, investigate the research question: ?how is the content of integration referred to, when it is related to immigrants, contra when it is related to national minorities?.

Papperslösa immigranter har begränsade rättigheter utifrån nationell lagstiftning på grund av sin juridiska "icke legala" status, vilket utmanar det sociala arbetets globala etiska värden med fokus på mänskliga rättigheter. Utifrån detta var studiens syfte att undersöka några socialarbetares arbete med papperslösa immigranter inom kommunens Socialtjänst. Med utgångspunkt i en kvalitativ ansats har fyra intervjuer gjorts med socialarbetare som arbetat med papperslösa immigranter. Fokus har varit; hinder och möjligheter att kunna hjälpa gruppen, beaktande av nationell lagstiftning och internationella principer samt upplevelsen av etiska dilemman i att vilja hjälpa och hinder i myndighetsutövningen. Studiens teoretiska utgångspunkter har varit nationalistisk byråkratisering samt anti- diskriminerande socialt arbete.

The purpose of this study was to explore the approach of the personal in residential care homes, legal guardians and Refugee secretaries consider as effective in their efforts to care for and guide unaccompanied boys in the Swedish society. With the help of qualitative method and semi-structured interviews, we have taken note of eleven informants? perspective on what approach they believe to be essential in the work of integration process with unaccompanied boys. We used Empowerment and the Swedish Integration Board´s proposal on indicators of integration as a theoretical base. The results show among other things, that our informants believe the keys to integration in Sweden for the unaccompanied youth are the Swedish language, education and a stable social network.

Syftet med studien ?r att unders?ka upplevelser hos yrkesverksamma som arbetar med att till?mpa djurunderst?tt arbete med hund inom ?ldreomsorgen och/eller arbetar i en s?dan verksamhet d?r hundinterventioner till?mpas. Studien str?var efter att f? insyn i de yrkesverksammas upplevelser om hundinterventioner inom ?ldreomsorgen, med fokus p? hur dessa insatser kan inverka p? ?ldres sociala delaktighet, psykiska v?lbefinnande och motivation till socialt engagemang. Studien genomf?rdes genom kvalitativa intervjuer med sex personer som arbetade antingen p? ett ?ldreboende d?r djurunderst?tt arbete med hund implementerats, eller som hundf?rare som bes?kte s?dana verksamheter.

In Sweden there is an integration policy and a policy for national minorities. The integration policy aims to integrate newly arrived immigrants (nyanlända invandrare), whereas the minority policy aims to maintain and strengthen the rights of the national minorities. The national minorities are though, at times, included into the integration policy, even though they hold a minority status in Sweden. This paper aims to, through discourse analysis, investigate the research question: ?how is the content of integration referred to, when it is related to immigrants, contra when it is related to national minorities?.

This research outlines studies about the relationship between social integration process of Japanese immigrants in Sweden and how social media assists in this process. The purpose of this research includes: To find out the reasons of migration to Sweden for six Japanese immigrants, any difficulties that they faced at the beginning of their immigration process and/or any positive qualities that they found in living in Sweden, whether they have accessed social media since they have moved in, if they do so, how the social media has been used and also, whether the social media has had a role to play in contributing to help their social integration process. In addition, it has been considered whether the participants have plans to return to Japan. In Sweden, there is relatively small Japanese migrant population. This social science research paper is the first in Sweden which explores the immigration process of Japanese migrants into Sweden.

Syftet med uppsatsen a?r att ta reda pa? bista?ndshandla?ggares syn pa? a?ldre med missbruksproblematik, samt deras syn pa? samarbetet med andra enheter ga?llande denna grupp. Underso?kningen a?r baserad pa? kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra bista?ndshandla?ggare fra?n tva? olika stadsdelar. Empirin a?r uppdelad i tre olika teman och dessa a?r o?verla?mning och samarbete mellan enheter, riktlinjer fo?r bemo?tande samt fo?rha?llningssa?tt och bista?ndshandla?ggares uppfattning kring arbetet med missbrukare.

När en individ känner tillhörighet till en grupp ökar det individens psykiska välbefinnande, bland annat individens självkänsla. Syftet med denna studie var att se om tillhörighet till det svenska samhället ökade individens självkänsla. Därför undersöktes sambandet mellan tillhörighet till det svenska samhället och självkänsla. Deltagarna var 134 vuxenstuderande, varav 57 svenskar och 77 immigranter. Det fanns ett positivt samband mellan tillhörighet och självkänsla, dock var det ingen skillnad mellan svenskar och immigranter.

Denna studie syftar till att analysera och f?rst? de breda effekterna av pensionsreformer i Sverige, Studien unders?ker specifikt hur dessa reformer p?verkar arbetsbesluten och syssels?ttningsm?nstret hos ?ldre individer f?r b?de m?n och kvinnor. Data samlades framf?rallt fr?n Statistiska Centralbyr?n. Huvudsyftet ?r att analysera hur den ?kade ?ldersgr?nsen i Lagen om Anst?llningsskydd (LAS-?ldern) har p?verkat andelen ?ldre p? arbetsmarknaden .

Different studies have shown that somewhere between 10 000 and 75 000 persons live in Sweden as undocumented migrants. They are not entitled to basic human and social rights such as access to health care on the same basis as persons holding a residence permit in Sweden. Undocumented migrants are often exploited as workers in the informal economy and they are not allowed to organize in unions. The Swedish Social Services is by law bound to care for all people living in Sweden, though in reality undocumented migrants are excluded from benefits and efforts granted by the Social Services. Our aim with the study has been to investigate the situation of undocumented migrants in Sweden and in relation to Social Services.

Bakgrund: När omvårdnadspersonal möter patienter som är immigranter med ett annat modersmål så räcker inte språkkunskaperna alltid till. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva omvårdnadspersonals upplevelser av att kommunicera med patienter som är immigranter med annat modersmål. Metod: En litteraturstudie baserad på tio vetenskapliga artiklar genomfördes. Artiklarna granskades utifrån Röda Korsets Högskolas granskningsmall. Resultat: Utifrån det givna innehållet så sammanställdes resultaten under tre kategorier: Språkbarriären som hinder för vård, här uppmärksammas att ?språkbarriären? som uppstår i kommunikationen mellan omvårdnadspersonalen och patientkategorin immigranter, är ett hinder i vården.