Sammanfattning Denna studie syftar till att få en inblick i socialsekreterarnas erfarenhet av att arbeta med nysvenskar med ett långvarigt behov av försörjningsstöd i en mellansvensk kommun. Förutom detta syftar studien till att undersöka hur socialsekreterare kan motverka ett långvarigt försörjningsbehov och hur ett professionellt arbete kan bedrivas inom verksamhetens villkor. Studien baseras på en kvalitativ metod med fyra semistrukturerade intervjuer med socialsekreterare som möter nysvenskar i sitt arbete. Det empiriska materialet analyserades sedan med hjälp av teorier och begrepp såsom kultur, kulturkrockar, gräsrotsbyråkrat och handlingsutrymme. Resultatet visar att socialsekreterare finner svårigheter med att motverka ett långtidsberoende för nysvenskar. Socialsekreterarna upplever att fler myndigheter måste arbeta mer intensivt med målgruppen för att göra det möjligt att motverka ett långtidsberoende. Förutom detta har socialsekreterarna lagar och riktlinjer de ska förhålla sig till, vilket kan begränsa deras arbete. Socialsekreterarnas upplevda arbetsbelastning bidrar till tidsbrist, vilket leder till att förändringsarbetet med nysvensken blir bristfällig. Förutom socialsekreterarens svårigheter att motverka ett långtidsberoende har även nysvenskens begränsningar uppmärksammats då de kan försvåra att nysvensken kan komma ut i egenförsörjning.

The aim of this thesis is to examine how the municipality of Helsingborg, Sweden intend to integrate immigrants as their new residents, and to ascertain what factors already integrated immigrants in Helsingborg mean have been crucial for their personal integration processes. This to possibly find any connection between their personal experiences of integrating in and to Helsingborg and the municipality’s effort in the matter. To achieve this a document examination of documents, linked to the integration related efforts, from the municipality of Helsingborg has been done and combined with interviews with integrated immigrants from the city about their integration processes. Two interviews has also been done with two different actors from whitin the municipality about their effort to support the integration related work; Gruppen för Religionsdialog and Helsingborgshem. The results of the document examination and interviews has been analyzed through two theories of how actors such as Helsingborg municipality should and/or should not work with integration; José Alberto Diaz’s and Roger Andersson’s. The study shows that Helsingborg municipality work with integration in many different ways that are related to the two theories, for example through housing and education in Swedish, among many other initiatives. The study also shows that the key factor, according to already integrated immigrants, for a successful integration is an employment or studies along with other important factors, such as the opportunity to live in a ethnically diversed neighborhood.

In today’s multicultural Sweden, museums need to work more inclusively to reflect the country’s national identities. This is both difficult and complex. The purpose of this thesis is to increase the understanding of whether and, if so, the museums’ diversity work affects the museums’ role in society as either a meeting place or as an exclusionary field in contemporary multicultural Sweden. More specifically, the thesis aims to investigate how museums’ diversity work is perceived by both museum staff and new Swedes, especially with regards to recruitment, staff composition and treatment of visitors, and how new Swedes relate to the cultural heritage as presented and reinterpreted in exhibitions at museums in Stockholm. The qualitative material consists of seven individual in-depth interviews with new Swedes who are non-academics, a focus group interview with seven new Swedes who are academically educated and three in-depth interviews with three museum employees from different museums. The results show that the museums have difficulty recruiting more widely and this lack of diversity among staff contributes to the critique expressed by the new Swedes about the museums’ diversity work and the expertise of the museums that interpret cultural heritage from different parts of the world. These attitudes and experiences have reproduced various notions of museums, Swedishness, cultural heritage and class differences that exist in Swedish society. The results show that the new Swedes consider the museums to be white rooms, mainly for white children. Five non-white new Swedes testify that they have been exposed to racism in the museums and these individuals believe that the museum staff is the source of their perceived insecurity. Both the new Swedes and the museum staff agree that the museums maintain old habits that hinder the museums’ diversity work.