Society needs to find new ways to utilise its resources in the best possible way in order to enable satisfactory services for its citizens in the long term. This is particularly important in sparsely populated areas, and in cities and municipalities with a declining population. This study contributes to this field by analysing a project for collaboration between the rescue service and the home-care service that has been introduced in a number of Swedish municipalities. The collaboration is intended to ensure welfare and safety for citizens, to guarantee a more efficient use of municipal resources, and to contribute to improved emergency management and civil protection.

The rescue service and the home-care service are two clearly gender-coded occupations that also operate on gender-coded workplaces and places of work. An overarching aim has therefore been to study gendered obstacles and possibilities of the collaboration. In our analysis of the empirical data – interviews with persons involved in the collaboration – place emerged as an important aspect of the collaboration processes, and is therefore elaborated in this article to contribute with knowledge of how conceptions and gender-coding of places and occupations affect sustainable and well-functioning collaboration processes.

The results show that collaboration processes between municipal services are complex and challenge ideals of the organisation, content and responsibility of work and who should perform certain work tasks. Notions of gender and gender differences are reproduced through the collaboration, which affect the efforts of municipalities to ensure welfare and safety for citizens.

社会需要寻找新的方法来以最佳方式利用其资源，以便长期为其公民提供满意的服务。这在人口稀少的地区以及人口下降的城市和直辖市尤为重要。本研究通过分析瑞典多个城市引入的救援服务与家庭护理服务之间的合作项目，为该领域做出了贡献。该合作旨在确保公民的福利和安全，保证更有效地利用市政资源，并有助于改善应急管理和公民保护。

救援服务和家庭护理服务是两个明确的性别编码职业，它们也在性别编码的工作场所和工作场所运作。因此，首要目标是研究性别障碍和合作的可能性。在我们对经验数据的分析中——对参与合作的人的采访——地方成为合作过程的一个重要方面，因此在本文中进行了阐述，以帮助了解地方和职业的概念和性别编码如何影响可持续和运作良好的协作流程。

结果表明，市政服务之间的协作过程是复杂的，并且挑战了工作的组织、内容和责任以及谁应该执行某些工作任务的理想。通过合作再现了性别和性别差异的概念，这影响了市政当局为确保公民的福利和安全所做的努力。