02420nas a2200217   4500008004100000022001400041245014600055210006900201300001200270490000700282520159200289653002101881653002501902653001401927653003301941653003301974653002802007100001702035700002002052856013002072       2024                        eng d  a2300-168200a‘For a Secure and Stable Life’: Constructing Life Satisfaction  in the ‘Migratory Careers’ of Russian Immigrant Physicians in Finland0 aFor a Secure and Stable Life Constructing Life Satisfaction in t  a189-2100 v133 a<p>This article investigates the subjective life satisfaction of Russian immigrant physicians in Finland. It focuses on how life satisfaction is subjectively experienced and interpreted post migration in a bid to identify the resources which influence it in both work and family domains. The advantage of life satisfaction is taking it as a unifying cross-disciplinary conceptual framework and as a multidimensional analytical approach, including macro-societal, meso-relational, and micro-personal levels. We use the concept of the migratory career to analyse work and family life on migration journeys. These life evaluations are analysed using a sociological conception of subjective life satisfaction and a psychological conception of wellbeing as guiding principles in theory and analysis. Based on 26 semi-structured qualitative interviews, the study finds that an interplay between societal-structural and personal-relational resources makes the interviewees satisfied with their work and family lives. Societal-structural resources included the work environment, income, life security and stability, while personal-relational resources included social support, social trust, and family relationships. Beyond the classical income and job security, we find our participants&rsquo; experienced and interpreted life satisfaction is essentially associated with outcomes of family-friendly and supportive work conditions. Moreover, social and personal security and family stability are important for their quality of life in a characteristic Nordic social environment.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>10amigratory career10aqualitative approach10aresources10aRussian immigrant physicians10asubjective life satisfaction10awork and family domains1 aHabti, Driss1 aSzczygiel, Nina  uhttps://www.ceemr.uw.edu.pl/content/secure-and-stable-life-constructing-life-satisfaction-migratory-careers-russian-immigrant