Work-life balance for transnational skilled workers in Sweden

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[1] Albrecht, J., Björklund, A. & Vroman (2003) ‘Is there a glass ceiling in Sweden?‘, Journal of Labor Economics, 21 (1):145–77.

[2] Auer, M. & H. Welte (2009) ‘Work–family reconciliation policies without equal opportunities? The case of Austria’, Community, Work and Family, 12:389–407.

[3] Bagger, J., A. Li & B.A. Gutek (2008) ‘How much do you value your family and does it matter? The joint effects of family identity salience, family-interference with-work, and gender’, Human Relations, 61:187–211.

[4] Baldassar, L. & L. Merla (2014) Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care: Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life. New York: Routledge.

[5] Beaverstock, J.V. (1996) ‘Revisiting high-waged labour market demand in the global cities: British professional and managerial workers in New York City’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 20 (3):422–45.

[6] Bradley, H. & R. Devadason (2008) ‘Fractured transitions: Young adults’ pathways into contemporary labour markets', Sociology, 42 (1):119–36.

[7] Brown, C. & L. Jones (2004) ‘The gender structure of the nursing hierarchy: The role of human capital’, Gender, Work and Organization, 11:1–25.

[8] Bryceson, D.F. (2019) ‘Transnational families negotiating migration and care life cycles across nation-state borders’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45 (16):3042–64.

[9] Bryceson, D. & U. Vuorela (eds) (2002) The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers.

[10] Clarke, A. (2005) Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn. London: SAGE.

[11] Cousins, C.R. & N. Tang (2004) ‘Working time and work and family conflict in the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK’, Work, Employment and Society, 18:531–49.

[12] Crenshaw, K. (1991) ‘Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics and violence against women of color’, Stanford Law Review, 43:1241–99.

[13] Crompton, R. & C. Lyonette (2006) ‘Work-life “balance” in Europe’, Acta Sociologica, 49 (4):379–93.

[14] Devadason, Ranji (2017) ‘The golden handcuffs? Choice, compliance and relocation amongst transnational professionals and executives’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43 (13):2265–82.

[15] Elder, G.H., Jr. (1994) ‘Time, human agency, and social-change: Perspectives on the life-course’, Social Psychology Quarterly, 57 (1):4–15.

[16] Favell, A. (2008) ‘The new face of east-west migration’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 34 (5):701–16.

[17] Fine-Davis, M., J. Fagnani, D. Giovannini, L. Højgaard & H. Clarke (2004) Fathers and Mothers: Dilemmas of the Work-Life Balance. A Comparative Study in Four European Countries. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

[18] Fleetwood, S. (2007) ‘Why work–life balance now?‘, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 18:387–400.

[19] Florida, R. 2002. ‘The economic geography of talent’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92(4): 743–755.

[20] Griffiths, M., A. Rogers & B. Anderson (2013) ‘Migration, time and temporalities: Review and prospect’, COMPAS Research Resources Paper.

[21] Hamidullah, M. & N. Ruccucci (2017) ‘Intersectionality and family-friendly policies in the Federal Government: Perceptions of women of color’, Administration & Society, 49 (1):105–20.

[22] Haskins, N.H., J. Ziomek-Daigle, C. Sewell, L. Crumb, B. Appling & H. Trepal (2016) ‘The intersectionality of African American mothers in counselor education: A phenomenological examination’, Counselor Education and Supervision, 55 (1):60–75.

[23] Hill Collins, P. (1990) Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge.

[24] Holt, H. & S. Lewis (2011) ‘“You can stand on your head and still end up with lower pay”: Gliding segregation and gendered work practices in Danish “family-friendly” workplaces’, Gender, Work and Organization, 18 (1):202–21.

[25] Kirk, K.E.B. & S.R. Janssen (2017) ‘Migrants in liminal time and space: An exploration of the experiences of highly skilled Indian bachelors in Amsterdam’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43 (16):2771–87.

[26] Kofman, E. (2014) ‘Towards a gendered evaluation of (highly) skilled immigration policies in Europe’, International Migration, 52 (3):116–28.

[27] Kofman, E. & P. Raghuram. (2005) ‘Gender and skilled migrants: Into and beyond the work place’, Geoforum, 36 (2):149–54.

[28] Kõu, A., L. van Wissen, J. van Dijk & A. Bailey (2015) ‘A life course approach to high-skilled migration: Lived experiences of Indians in the Netherlands’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41 (10):1644–63.

[29] Kõu, A., C.H. Mulder & A. Bailey (2017) ‘“For the sake of the family and future”: The linked lives of highly skilled Indian migrants’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43 (16):2788–05.

[30] Kraler, A. (2011) ‘Fixing, adjusting, regulating, protecting human rights: The shifting uses of regularisations in the European Union’, European Journal of Migration and Law, 13:297–316.

[31] Larsen, J.A., H.T. Allan, K. Bryan & P. Smith (2005) ‘Overseas nurses’ motivations for working in the UK: Globalization and life politics', Work, Employment and Society 19 (2):349–68.

[32] Marino, S. (2019) ‘Cook it, eat it, Skype it: Mobile media use in re-staging intimate culinary practices among transnational families’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 22 (6):788–803.

[33] Martin-Brelot, H., M. Grossetti & D. Eckert (2010) ‘The spatial mobility of the creative class: A European perspective’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34 (4):854–70.

[34] Maume, D.J., R.A. Sebastian & A.R. Bardo (2010) ‘Gender, work-family responsibilities, and sleep’, Gender and Society, 24:746–68.

[35] Meares, C. (2010) ‘A fine balance: Women, work and skilled migration’, Women's Studies International Forum, 33 (5):473–81.

[36] Mulder, C.H. & P. Hooimeijer (1999) ‘Residential relocations in the life course’ in L.J.G. van Wissen & P.A. Dykstra (eds) Population Issues, The Plenum Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, Dordrecht: Springer: 159–186.

[37] Munn, S.L. (2013) ‘Unveiling the work–life system: The influence of work–life balance on meaningful work’, Advances in Developing Human Resources, 15 (4): 401–17.

[38] Murphy, E. & D. Redmond (2009) ‘The role of “hard” and “soft” factors for accommodating creative knowledge: insights from Dublin's “creative class”‘, Irish Geography, 42 (1):69–84.

[39] Musterd, S. & O. Gritsai (2012) ‘The creative knowledge city in Europe: Structural conditions and urban policy strategies for competitive cities’, European Urban and Regional Studies, 20 (3):343–59.

[40] Nathan, M. (2014) ‘The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: A survey of the literature for receiving countries’, IZA Journal of Migration, 3 (1):1–20.

[41] Nedelcu. M. (2012) ‘Migrants’ new transnational habitus: Rethinking migration through a cosmopolitan lens in the digital age', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 38 (9):1339–56.

[42] Özbilgin, M.F., T.A. Beauregard, A. Tatli & M.P. Bell (2011) ‘Work–life, diversity and intersectionality: A critical review and research agenda’, International Journal of Management Reviews, 13 (2):177–98.

[43] Pillay, S. & S. Abhayawansa (2014) ‘Work-family balance: Perspectives from higher education’, Higher Education, 68 (5):669–90.

[44] Rajkumar, D., L. Berkowitz, L.E. Vosko, V. Preston & R. Latham (2012) ‘At the temporary-permanent divide: How Canada produces temporariness and makes citizens through its security, work, and settlement policies’, Citizenship Studies, 16 (3/4):483–510.

[45] Robertson, S. (2014) ‘Time and temporary migration: The case of temporary graduate workers and working holiday makers in Australia’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40 (12):1915–33.

[46] Ryan, L. (2018) ‘Differentiated embedding: Polish migrants in London negotiating belonging over time’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44 (2):233–51.

[47] Ryan, L. & J. Molholland (2014) ‘“Wives are the route to social life”: An analysis of family life and networking amongst highly skilled migrants in London’, Sociology, 48 (2):251–67.

[48] Saldaña, J. (2009) The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. London: SAGE.

[49] Salt, J. (1988) ‘Highly-skilled international migrants, careers and internal labour markets’, Geoforum 19 (4):387–99.

[50] Schans, D. (2009) ‘Transnational family ties of immigrants in the Netherlands’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 32 (7):1164–82.

[51] Shinozaki, K. (2014) ‘The role of gender in the work-family interaction’, Journal of Economic and Social Geography, 105:526–41.

[52] Simmel, G. (1950) ‘The stranger’ in Kurt Wolff (trans.) The Sociology of Georg Simmel, New York: Free Press:402–8.

[53] Strauss, L.A. & J. Corbin (1994) ‘Grounded theory methodology: An overview’ in N.K. Denzin and Y.S. Lincoln (eds) Handbook of Qualitative Research, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE:273–85.

[54] Van Echtelt, P., A. Glebbeek, S. Lewis & S. Lindenberg (2009) ‘Post-Fordist work: A man's world? Gender and working overtime in the Netherlands’, Gender & Society, 23:188–214.

[55] Watts, J.H. (2009) ‘“Allowed into a man's world’. Meanings of work–life balance: Perspectives of women civil engineers as “minority” workers in construction', Gender, Work and Organization, 16 (1):37–57.