29/09/2022
Vår kollega Chiara Valli söker intervjupersoner i sitt nya spännande projekt:
We are looking for research participants in our project "Financialisation of everyday life in Sweden"!
Are you between 18 and 40 y.o.? Do you have a mortgage and have a precarious work situation (temporary employment, self-employment, hourly- contracts, studying..)? We want to talk to you! Do you know anybody in this situation we could talk to?
Research team: Chiara Valli Listerborn Carina Brett Christophers
Based at Malmö University Institute for Urban Research
We are a group of researchers based at Malmö University and Uppsala University, conducting a project financed by FORMAS with the title: “Financialization of everyday life in Sweden. Intersectional perspectives on housing and labor precarity” (Finansialisering av vardagslivet i Sverige. Intersektionella perspektiv på otrygghet i boendet och arbetslivet).
Project description:
Sweden housing crisis has been characterised by rising housing prices and household debt.
As a consequence, Swedish households have never been in as much debt as they are today. They are amongst the most indebted in Europe and today’s younger homebuyers appear to take on more mortgage debt in real terms than previous generations ever did.
In the past twenty years, levels of work precariousness have also risen, in the form of fixed-term, insecure employment.
These forms of contemporary precarity affect mostly the young adults –‘millennials’- generation, and arguably shape and deeply reconfigure societal structures and power relations.
Yet, indebtedness and labour precarity have never been analysed together.
This project contributes filling this knowledge gap by looking at the ‘everyday financialization’ of Swedish householders from an intersectional perspective that poses at its core the question of housing and other fundamental axes of inequality (gender/sex, immigration status, ethnicity, employment forms).
In particular, in this initial phase in the project, we are interest in understanding the situation of young adults that have a mortgage and are temporary employed (or affected by other forms of job insecurity).
Research method:
The research is carried out through a qualitative methods approach.
In this first phase, we conduct interviews with young (18-40 y.o.), mortgaged households that have a precarious job situation (temporary employment, hourly contract employment, self-employed, studying…). Through these interviews we want to investigate and understand the different ways in which mortgage affects the daily lives of this group.
