The conditions for intra-European labour mobility have changed significantly during recent decades, mainly due to the European Single Market. Despite this, internationally mobile and highly skilled intra-EU migrants from West to West have not received enough attention in the sociology of work. The present article focuses on highly skilled labour migrants with a university degree from Sweden, currently working in Germany or the UK. Swedish migrants feel they challenge specific norms related to hierarchies in the workplace, behaving according to their own ‘taken-for-granted’ norms concerning the ways in which work is organized and tasks are assigned. Their privileged position as educated Swedish migrants is an important part of their self-image and enables them to challenge norms. Furthermore, they also deal with self-perceived otherness while making sense of their experiences of contradictions and norm-breaking. The findings highlight their self-definitions, according to which they are simultaneously (by default) insiders and/or (superior) outsiders.

近几十年来，欧洲内部劳动力流动的条件发生了重大变化，这主要是由于欧洲单一市场。尽管如此，从西方到西方的国际流动和高技能的欧盟内部移民在工作社会学中还没有得到足够的关注。本文重点介绍拥有瑞典大学学位、目前在德国或英国工作的高技能劳工移民。瑞典移民觉得他们挑战了与工作场所等级制度相关的特定规范，按照他们自己关于工作组织和任务分配方式的“理所当然”的规范行事。他们作为受过教育的瑞典移民的特权地位是他们自我形象的重要组成部分，使他们能够挑战规范。此外，他们还处理自我感知的他者，同时理解他们的矛盾和破坏规范的经历。调查结果突出了他们的自我定义，根据这些定义，他们同时（默认情况下）是内部人员和/或（高级）外部人员。