The sixth volume of
International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion addresses workplace discrimination of ethnic minority people and migrants in Europe.
Race Discrimination and Management of Ethnic Diversity and Migration at Work analyses perspectives from nine countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Italy, Cyprus and Greece. Each country-focused chapter examines the historical context surrounding diversity, equality, racism and discrimination, along with facts and statistics about ethnicity in society and at work. Chapters then investigate the discourse and measures deployed at the national and organisational levels to combat race discrimination and their effects, and each provides a country-specific case study. The book concludes with a reflection on the development of equality legislation in the EU and its impact on racial equality at the workplace.
This volume constitutes a cooperative effort to shed light on the management of ethnicity, diversity and migration within the workplace, emphasising the opportunity for improvement within this area. It is an illuminating book for researchers of equality and diversity within organisations, along with stakeholders involved in finding solutions to race and ethnic discrimination at work.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Setting the context of race discrimination at work in the European Union;
Joana Vassilopoulou and Julienne Brabet Chapter 2: Reflections on definitions, methods, challenges of and ways forward for ethnic counting in Europe; Semra Karakas and Mustafa Ozbilgin
Chapter 3: The French Model and the discriminations toward visible minorities at work; Julienne Brabet, Maria-Giuseppina Bruna, Jean-François Chanlat and Florimond Labulle
Chapter 4: An overview of diversity policies in the public and private sector that seek to increase the representation of migrants and ethnic minorities in the workplace. The case of Germany; Joana Vassilopoulou, Andreas Merx and Verena Bruchhagen
Chapter 5: Race Discrimination and the Management of Ethnic Diversity at Work: The Case of Elementary Teachers in Ireland; Thomas Walsh and Rory McDaid
Chapter 6: Race Discrimination at Work in the UK; Rifat Kamasak, Mustafa Ozbilgin, Meltem Yavuz and Can Akalin
Chapter 7: Ethnic discrimination in the labour market: the Dutch case; Dr. Iris Andriessen
Chapter 8: Discrimination at work: The case of Norway; Arnfinn H. Midtbøen
Chapter 9: The intertwinement of symbolic and structural violence: Migrant agricultural labourers in two regions of Southern Italy; Martina Lo Cascio and Domenico Perrotta
Chapter 10: Migrants in the workplace: the case of Cyprus; Andri Georgiadou
Chapter 11: (Un)Maid in Greece: Repercussions of precarious, low-status work on family and community networks of solidarity of migrant Filipina live-in domestic workers and race discrimination at work; Theodoros Fouskas
Chapter 12: Conclusion: Race Discrimination at work in Europe: a civil society perspective; Michaël Privot
Joana Vassilopoulou is an Associate Professor in HRM at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London. She also works at the Erasmus Centre for Women and Organizations, Erasmus University in The Netherlands. Her research focuses on race and gender equality and migrants at work.
Julienne Brabet is Professor Emeritus of Management at Université Paris Est Créteil, a Vice-President of the Société Française de Management and an Honorary Fellow of EURAM (European Academy of Management).
Victoria Showunmi is a Senior Lecturer at the University College London, researching within the areas of gender, education and the wellbeing of young black women, specifically in relation to educational leadership and gender policies.