Career practitioners as invisible street-level integrators

Miika Kekki

doi:10.20856/jnicec.5508

Authors

Miika Kekki University of Derby

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.5508

Keywords:

migrants, integration, career guidance, street-level work, Finland

Abstract

What is the most important task of career practitioners when working with migrants? Furthermore, who can define this task? Can career practitioners aim at changing people’s stories and lives? In my doctoral thesis I studied Finnish career practitioners from three viewpoints and analysed how they use power, how they see their professional agency and how they use discretion in their work. In this short text I discuss what all this means for the profession and how we could support the career practitioners to assume a more visible role in migrant integration.

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