Labor market related discrimination of women and migrants / Monika Eigmüller, Stefanie Börner, Christine Barwick-Gross (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eigmüller, Monika, editor.

Börner, Stefanie, 1980- editor.

Barwick-Gross, Christine, editor.

Series:

Zeitschrift für Politik. Sonderband ; 12.

Zeitschrift für Politik. Special issue ; 12

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

At head of title on Nomos website: ZfP | Special Issue 12.

Place of Publication:

Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2025.

Contents:

Cover

Discrimination against women and migrants in European labor markets: An introduction

Literature

"Non-take up", "Access to social rights", "Anti-discrimination": Reframing equality in France

1. Social citizenship and the conception of equality in France

2. Analytical grid: policy frames as normative and institutional devices

3. Policy frames: sequential analysis and institutionalization

3.1. Non-take up and access to social rights: sequential analysis of ideas and discourses (from the 1970s to 1998)

3.2. Institutionalizing access to social rights

3.3. Fighting discrimination: sequential analysis of ideas and discourses (from the 1950s to 2004)

3.4. Institutionalizing anti-discrimination

4. Conclusion

References

Gender and the labour market: A survey on French research

Introduction

1. The emergence and consolidation of gender issues in France: The driving forces of change

The feminist movement(s)

Internationalisation of scientific production and reappropriation of Anglo-Saxon research: the example of (labour) economics

European integration: law and cognitive frameworks

2. In what ways has the consideration of gender renewed our understanding of the dynamics of employment and inequality in France?

Revisiting the concepts, methods and canonical objects of investigation: dynamics of employment, increase in qualifications and enduring inequalities

Female employment at the heart of employment growth

Changes in qualification levels and female carriers

Analytical shifts and the exploration of new research topics: Fresh insights into gender inequalities in the labour market

New insides on gender inequality on the labour market

The reconsideration and evaluation of employment and other related public policies from a gender perspective.

Intersectionality and discriminations in pay and recruitment

Conclusion

Bibliography

"Give women proper part-time work!" - Historical trajectories of employment regulation and female labor market participation in Germany between 1998 and 2006

Welfare states' role in women's participation in the labor force and the German gender regime

Welfare states as norm givers

Tracing the intertwined policy norms of labor market and family policies: research design and methods used

German labor market policy and the feminization of part-time and marginal employment

Family policy and family models until the mid-2000s

Aligning contradicting normative orientations within the political discourse: Employment and family policy debates in the Bundestag in the 1990s and 2000s

Discussion and conclusion

Primary sources

The (dis-)comfort of diversity - perspectives of racialized workers and diversity practitioners on diversity and race at the workplace

The rise of the diversity discourse

Racial diversity and anti-discrimination in the context of the workplace

Data and Methodology

"Diversity ends with black people" - Racialized workers' experiences with diversity in the workplace

Insights from Diversity practitioners

Summary and Discussion

Acknowledgement

Precarity-based evidence: trade unions' knowledge production on migrant workers' occupational health in slaughterhouses in Germany

1. Introduction

2. Theory/methods package

2.1. Evidence-based policy

2.2. Data collection

2.3. Situational analysis of unions' evidence development

Situational maps

Social world/arenas

Positional maps

3. Union evidence in the ArbSchKG

4. Situating union evidence: structural precarity

4.1. Legal situation: systemic precarity.

4.2. Cultural situation: epistemic precarity

5. Precarity-based evidence: the experience of unions in Schleswig-Holstein

5.1. Phase 1: Initial knowledge gain

5.2. Phase 2: Knowledge verification

5.3. Phase 3: Knowledge application

5.4. Phase 4: Optimised knowledge gain

6. Final reflections

Competing Interests

Sources

Appendix

The impact of criminal records and ethnic-sounding names on young men's employment chances in Germany: Field experimental evidence

1 Introduction

2 Background

Discrimination theory

Crime &amp

labor market opportunities

Ethnicity

Interaction of crime &amp

ethnicity

3 Data &amp

Methods

Study design

Experimental manipulations

Applicant characteristics

Data collection

Outcome variable

Analytical strategy

4 Findings

Robustness checks

5 Discussion

German email

Email (translated)

Microaggressions at work: how highly qualified migrants experience individual discrimination at work settings

Background: The Danish narrative on the good, qualified migrant

Theoretical frame: Discrimination and microaggressions

Study Design

Results: Themes and Types of Microaggressions

Microinsults by direct degradation

Microinsults by comparison

Microinvalidations

Microexclusions

Microinvisibilizations

Who receives which type of microaggression?

Discussion and Conclusion: The specific experiences of highly qualified migrants

"I don't attribute that to the fact that I'm a foreigner" - Female CEE migrants in Austria and their perspectives on deskilli

1. Migration and deskilling

1.1 Deskilling among highly educated migrants from CEE countries in Austria

1.2 Gender differences in regard to deskilling.

1.3 Moving towards an understanding of the micro-processes of "deskilling"

2. Research question

3. Research context and methodological approach

4. The case study: Michaela

4.1 Applying a temporal lens

4.1.1 Early career migration

4.1.2 Incompatibility of childcare and labour

4.1.3 Interpreting deskilling

4.2 The contextuality of being a "foreigner" and a "woman"

4.2.1 "I'm really the only foreigner they have to deal with"

4.2.2 The altered relevance of gender

4.2.3 New ambivalences

5. Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Categorization and differentiation as 'useful others': An intersectional perspective on the European labor market

EU Labor Migration and the Construction of the "Useful Other"

Hierarchical Differentiation in the Labor Market: Neoliberal Capitalist, Colonial, and Heteropatriarchal Influences

Methodological approach

Examining the Construction of the "Useful Other": Macro- and Meso-Level Insights

Gender

Meso-level

Age

Origin

Class

Discussion

Websites.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-7489-4939-1

OCLC:

1521494329

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access