Immigrant women in Finland - Self-reported perception on education, health, employment and gender violence
Karanja, Joseph Kihagi (2019)
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019052712178
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019052712178
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While native Finnish women enjoy many basic rights and are globally empowered in their societies many immigrant women living in Finland do not enjoy this rights or feel empowered in their new environment. Immigrant women living in Finland have reported experiences like discrimination, racism, communication difficulties, difficulties in accessing public services and gender violence.
The aim of my thesis is to investigate the current situation of immigrant women living in Finland and to highlight about their current situation as immigrant women in their new host country. The study focuses on major areas like health, education, gender violence and employment. The literature framework explores on what has been written about immigration and immigrant women in general and in Finland.
Five immigrant women with different backgrounds were chosen through purposive sam-pling to participate in the study. Semi structured interviews using open ended questions were done. Content analysis was undertaken through identification of categories. The participants expressed their experiences and perception on the current situation of education, health, employment and gender violence in Finland.
The results reveled that immigrant women were generally positive about their current situation in Finland but faced major challenges like unemployment, language barrier and discrimination in the different sectors that were studied. The study also makes some recommendation that could be implemented to tackle the challenges facing immigrant women in Finland.
The aim of my thesis is to investigate the current situation of immigrant women living in Finland and to highlight about their current situation as immigrant women in their new host country. The study focuses on major areas like health, education, gender violence and employment. The literature framework explores on what has been written about immigration and immigrant women in general and in Finland.
Five immigrant women with different backgrounds were chosen through purposive sam-pling to participate in the study. Semi structured interviews using open ended questions were done. Content analysis was undertaken through identification of categories. The participants expressed their experiences and perception on the current situation of education, health, employment and gender violence in Finland.
The results reveled that immigrant women were generally positive about their current situation in Finland but faced major challenges like unemployment, language barrier and discrimination in the different sectors that were studied. The study also makes some recommendation that could be implemented to tackle the challenges facing immigrant women in Finland.