Attityder kring etnicitet är en företeelse som förekommer i många sammanhang. I arbetet med människor är attityder kring etnicitet väsentligt för hur arbetsplatsen upplevs, både för anställda och klienter. Idag består Sveriges yrkesliv av anställda med växlande/olika bakgrunder och etniciteter, vilket påverkats av den ökade invandrarpopulationen sedan 2000-talet. Attityder kring etnicitet framkallar hinder för ett jämställt arbete och risken för etnisk diskriminering blir därför större. Att synliggöra hur attityder påverkar arbetsplatsen kan vara komplext och kräver att anställda kritiskt granskar sig själva, sina medarbetare och klientarbetet. Upplevelser av attityders påverkan beror på flera individuella faktorer och kan skilja sig åt på olika arbetsplatser. Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie var att undersöka attityder kring etnicitet hos ett urval av Socialtjänstens anställda samt hur attityderna påverkar mötet med klienter. Med en socialpsykologisk ansats genomfördes denna studie utifrån teorier om social kognitionsteori, attityder, social attributionsteori samt etnicitet, vi och dem-tänkande & indirekt diskriminering. Undersökningen innehåller tio semistrukturerade intervjuer med socialarbetare på socialtjänsten i tre olika kommuner. Resultaten visar att negativa attityder kring etnicitet framkommer på socialtjänsten, både på arbetsplatsen och i bemötandet med klienter. Hur attityderna framkommer i arbetet påverkas ett flertal olika faktorer såsom erfarenhet, medvetenhet kring negativa attityder och öppna dialoger mellan anställda. I mötet med klienter har attityders påverkan en grund i anställdas förståelse, bemötande och förmågan att hålla sig till den professionella rollen. / Attitudes and prejudice about ethnicity is a phenomenon that occurs in many different contexts. When working with people, attitudes about ethnicity is essential for how the workplace is experienced, both for the employees and clients. The work-life in Sweden consists of employees with different backgrounds and ethnicities. Norms about ethnicity create obstacles to achieve equality and the risk of ethnic discrimination enhances. The issue can be complex and requires employees to critically examine themselves and their colleagues. Experiences of attitudes depends on several individual factors, therefore they may differ in different workplaces. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate attitudes about ethnicity among Social Services' employees and how the attitudes affect the work with clients. With a social psychological approach, this study was conducted based on theories of social cognition theory, attitudes, social attribution theory and ethnicity, we and them-thinking & indirect discrimination. The essay contains ten semi-structured interviews with social workers in three different municipalities. The results show that it exists negative attitudes about ethnicity in the social services, both between employees and clients. How attitudes appear in the work is affected by several different factors such as experience, awareness of negative attitudes and open dialogues between employees. Whilst working with clients, the influence of attitudes has a basis in the employees´ level of understanding, treatment and ability to maintain the professional role.

The study deals with the life stories of six women and four men who were born in Germany and who now live in Sweden.  Its purpose is to examine the histories of those who grew up in Germany during and after the Nazi era, their descriptions of their lives and experiences during childhood and adolescence, and how they regard their encounters with Swedish people, and the ways in which these encounters have affected their ways of describing the growth of their attachment to this country. The main approach is a narrative analysis focussing on the interview interaction and the wider social and political contexts of their life stories. When speaking of their lives in the two countries they show varying degrees of attachment to the places involved. This is why I use the term “travellers” when describing how their feelings of “belonging” change. The theoretical concepts used are those of habitus and capitals derived from Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice, and Marianne Horsdal’s view that people often refer to the idea of a “good life” when relating their life stories. This concept can of course vary widely from one person to another. Nine of the group emigrated to Sweden voluntarily; the remaining one came here as a refugee after the end of the second World War.  The older ones - born between 1920 and 1940 - have memories of their early years in Nazi Germany and of the wartime period. The younger ones, born after 1950, have differing memories of childhood and adolescence spent in East and West Germany. Some of them lost close relatives during the war.  Those who came to Sweden during the late 1940s and the 1950s were met with very negative attitudes from some Swedes, while the later immigrants were treated with respect. / Tyskland i Sverige och Sverige i Tyskland