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The naked truth about migrants’ views: User involvement as radical knowledge production
Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Centre for Municipality Studies – CKS. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0340-1358
2020 (English)In: Nordic Social Work Research, ISSN 2156-857X, E-ISSN 2156-8588, Vol. 10, no 4, p. 302-316Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This ethnographic case study examines how knowledge was produced in collaboration between a welfare organization and its target group. The study investigated the Swedish Public Employment Service (PES), which is responsible for the integration of newly arrived migrants through the ‘introduction programme’. To explore how migrants perceived its services, the PES initiated a six-month project in which three employee-researchers and four participant-researchers (migrants participating in the introduction programme) conducted an interview study together. I followed the project as an independent researcher, making observations and conducting interviews with the members of the research group on several occasions.

The study shows the participant-researchers were enabled to obtain quite extensive control over the project. The study also suggests that organizational leadership on practical and methodological matters does not necessarily conflict with the user perspective of the study. The project produced knowledge that revealed the migrants’ perceptions in a relatively unedited way. The knowledge produced was ‘radical’ as it differed considerably from the typical knowledge produced by the organization, which made it unfamiliar and difficult to handle. Not until the final report of the project included an organizational perspective was it made official, and even so the PES made no efforts to publicly present or disseminate the report.

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Routledge, 2020. Vol. 10, no 4, p. 302-316
Keywords [en]
User involvement, research, knowledge production, collaboration, control
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Social Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-152733DOI: 10.1080/2156857X.2018.1547786Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85100787813OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-152733DiVA, id: diva2:1264060
Available from: 2018-11-19 Created: 2018-11-19 Last updated: 2022-09-22Bibliographically approved

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