Career rewind: professional trajectories of pharmacists with a refugee background

Figures & data

Table 1. Study informants.

Informants	Name (pseudonym)	Gender	Age	Family status	Registration
1	Khalil	M	40+	Family reunification	Yes
2	Salim	M	40+	Child/ren	No
3	Abdel	M	36–40	Wife, child/ren	Yes
4	Khaled	M	40+	Wife, child/ren	Yes
5	Hassan	M	31–35	Came alone, family now	Yes
7*	Mariam	F	36–40	Husband, child/ren	No
8	Layla	F	31–35	Came alone	No
9	Seth	M	31–35	Came alone	Yes
10	Ghassan	M	40+	Wife, child/ren	Yes
11	Farid	M	31–35	Wife, child/ren	Yes
12	Aminah	F	26–30	Came alone	Yes
13	Aisha	F	40+	Husband, child/ren	Yes
14	Mariam	F	31–35	Came alone	Yes
15	Karim	M	31–35	Family reunification	Yes
16	Rafik	M	40+	Wife, child/ren	No
17	Farhan	M	31–35	Family reunification	Yes
18	Walid	M	40+	Wife, child/ren	No (industry)
19/mngr	Reza	M	40+	Wife, child/ren	Yes
20/mngr	Essam	M	40+	Wife, child/ren	Yes
21/mngr	Ali	M	40+	Wife, child/ren	Yes

All informants arrived in Sweden in 2015 or earlier.

Informants 19–21 are pharmacy managers.

*Informant 6 was removed from the sample because this person did not have a refugee background.

Figure 1. The career rewind for highly skilled refugees in registered professions. The dotted arrows show that the careers of highly skilled refugees do not follow a linear, unidirectional and chronological trajectory. For example, one can take the aptitude test before showing proof of Swedish language competency.