Abstract
The chapter deals with low educated and language weak unemployed women migrants on the European labour market. For this group new creative solutions are needed. One such a solution is work integrating social enterprises (WISE), often run as social cooperative with democratic involvement and a hybrid business model related to both economic and social goals. Leaning on new institutional theory, the chapter highlight Sweden, a Nordic welfare state where the public sector has catered for citizen employability
but not promoted WISE as a legitimate partner. The chapter presents cases-studies of Swedish WISE and how these as institutional change agents cope with regulatory, financial and cultural hindrances. It is suggested that signs of a more resilient societal contract might rebalance the role of the public and private sector in favor of new models for work-integration like WISE.