Chapter 7 Exploring Intersectionality, Systems and Capitals: The Case of a Filipino Nurse in Norway

Abstract

In this chapter, I discuss intersectionality in relation to complexity theory as an approach to social systems, inspired by Sylvia Walby's ground-breaking work where she brings together these two theoretical perspectives (2007, 2009, p. 250). In order to apply her synthesis to my study of migrant nurses to Norway, I examine the methodological potential of Bourdieu-inspired feminist concept of capitals (Adkins & Skeggs, 2004) in grasping the connections between individual agency and intersecting systems of inequality.

Citation

Seeberg, M.L. (2012), "Chapter 7 Exploring Intersectionality, Systems and Capitals: The Case of a Filipino Nurse in Norway", Aslaug Sollund, R. (Ed.) Transnational Migration, Gender and Rights (Advances in Ecopolitics, Vol. 10), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 127-147. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2041-806X(2012)0000010011