Å utforske velferdsobjektivering: Nav-ansattes erfaringer med samarbeid

Abstract

In this chapter, I show how I have applied the concept of objectivation to explore how frontline workers in the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration carry out and reflect on interprofessional collaboration in their work with youth. Institutional and political discourse on interprofessional collaboration motivates collaborative efforts across services. In this chapter, I describe the interaction between frontline workers’ experiences of interprofessional collaboration and the institutional conditions and procedures associated with interprofessional collaboration. I analyze nine semi-structured interviews with frontline workers in the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration. Applying objectivation as an analytical concept, I find that even though interprofessional collaboration occasionally can be useful and effective for the youth, the unquestioned understanding of interprofessional collaboration as positive also leads to the frontline workers subsuming the youths’ experiences.