Finding ways : Career guidance in schools for migrant youths’ career transitions and inclusion

This proposal presents a work in progress about Swedish schools' work with career guidance and counselling (CGC) to support newly arrived students' career transitions and meaning-making about the future. The study is part of a research project with the aim to study the importance of inclusion and recognition in the organization and design of CGC. Specifically, this study examines how newly arrived students learn about education and working life, and what opportunities for meaning-making about career issues the students are given. The study has an ethnographic approach and has been conducted at the language introductory program (LIP), whose target group is newly arrived students, at four upper secondary schools. The analysis is ongoing but so far it points to that without a comprehensive work based on knowledge and understanding of both career issues and inclusion challenges, the students are at risk of being left to manage their inclusion on their own