In their own time: Refugee healthcare professionals’ attempts at temporal re-appropriation

Scholarship on refugee labour market participation regularly alludes to the temporal dimension of process, yet explicit engagement with it remains limited. I argue that researching temporalities employment re-entry is valuable as discerns recursive interrelation between social structure and individual agency advances or curbs trajectories refugees. Namely, refugees’ perceptions time inform their integration pathways. In this article, interrogate how highly educated refugees perceive imposed upon them by framework, efforts re-appropriation ways in which institutional factors these and, thus, individuals’ sense integration. To end, discuss compare 11 healthcare professionals’ licensure procedures Oslo Malmö based material from semi-structured interviews. The professionals reported appropriated through, for instance, prolonged suspension work abundance pointless waiting time. Seeing a precious commodity, they deemed problematic, employing different attempts speed up process. When comparing Malmö, find perceived clarity requirements accessibility support structures existence tailored qualification programmes lend quality plasticity. This fosters accelerate endeavours, thereby promoting into market. However, rather than disrupting underlying power relations determining relative value foreign qualifications, maintained established rationale.