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THURSDAY 16 APRIL 2015 15:00-15:30
We address these issues with an experimental study, where respondents were asked to evalu-ate their willingness to
accept hypothetical job offers described in short text vignettes with an experimental variation of job characteristics,
including contract type. We examine how the acceptance of FTCs is related to personal and context factors.
Preliminary results from a double hurdle model reveal a preference for permanent over fixed-term contracts when
respondents are confronted with jobs of otherwise comparable quality. The acceptance of FTCs is shaped by factors
defining workers' bargaining position vis-à-vis employers. While higher skills, a higher social class position and a
better financial standing decrease the acceptance of FTCs, unemployment fosters it. A 'willingness-to-pay' analysis
shows that low-qualified and unemployed persons require lower levels of financial compensa-tion for FTCs. This
suggests path-dependencies: individuals in disadvantaged labour market positions have a high risk of further
weakening their bargaining position by accepting precari-ous employment.
POSTER 7
Coordinating Death: Exploring Healthcare Professional Interactions in the Hospital Admissions of Patients
Close to the End of Life
Hoare, S., Barclay, S., Kelly, M.P.
(University of Cambridge)
The provision of end-of-life care in England typically necessitates the collaboration of a large variety of healthcare
professionals. As patients are dying, coordinated practice is required quickly and tends to include much emotion work.
The various healthcare backgrounds of those involved are reflected in differences in perceptions of how to provide
best practice in end-of-life care.
In this paper I will explore these differences and their implications on where dying patients are cared for. To do so I will
draw upon my current PhD research of case study interviews of healthcare professionals from both hospital and
community settings who were involved in the care of a patient who was admitted to hospital shortly before their death.
Hospitals are where most patients in the UK die, yet as a place of death are derided in healthcare policy as expensive
and against patient choice. I will argue that one reason that dying patients are cared for there is due to the diversity of
healthcare professionals. Hospital becomes a default choice for professionals because it is the only placed accepted
by all. For all participants hospital was a place recognised as somewhere patients would receive adequate care;
accessible to every patient regardless of condition or resources and, critically, requiring fewer complicated interprofession
negotiations than other care settings. My research is ongoing, but suggests that if hospital admissions are
to be reduced for patients at the end of life more emphasis should be placed on understanding the dynamics between
the different healthcare professionals involved.
POSTER 8
Beyond Methodological Separatism: The Everyday Construction of National Identifications amongst Migrants
to and from Finland
Holley, P.
(University of Helsinki)
In the social sciences there has been a tendency to treat concepts such as ethnicity, nation and 'race' as analytically
distinct categories. However, feminist accounts, for example, have shown that these classifications are not mutually
exclusive, but rather embedded within one another. In relation the study of racism, Cousin and Fine (2012) argue that
the distinction between racism and anti-Semitism – two beliefs that often lead to discriminatory practices affecting the
members of specific groups – is the result of a methodological separatism that narrows our analytic lens. Likewise,
methodological separatism causes researchers to overlook the interconnectedness of ethnic, racial and national
categories as ordinary people use them to construct their collective identifications. Drawing upon ongoing
ethnographic research amongst migrants to and from Finland, this paper analyses the ways in which everyday
understandings of ethnicity and 'race' are embedded in talk of nationhood and national belonging. It highlights the
dynamic ways in which migrants employ ethnic and racial categories when positioning themselves and others as
members (or non-members) of different national groups. This analysis is based upon a substantial body of data
collected in a multicultural immigrant group in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and amongst emigrant Finns residing
across the UK. The data analysed includes fieldnotes, biographic narrative interviews in which individual migrants
convey their 'migration stories', and thematic group discussions.
49 BSA Annual Conference 2015
Glasgow Caledonian University