A relational understanding of work-life balance of Muslim migrant women in the west: future research agenda

Ali, Faiza; Malik, Ashish; Pereira, Vijay; Ariss, Akram Al

doi:10.1080/09585192.2016.1166784

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“…2012; Ali et al . 2017; Crowley‐Henry et al . 2018; Fossland 2013) and map our findings across three levels of analysis: institutional, organizational and individual (see Figure 1).…”

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Unveiling theCanvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration

Lee

Szkudlarek

Nguyen

et al. 2020

Int J Management Reviews

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Increasing levels of displacement and the need to integrate refugees in the workforce pose new challenges to organizations and societies. Extant research on refugee employment and workforce integration currently resides across various disconnected disciplines, posing a significant challenge for management scholars to contribute to timely and relevant solutions. In this paper, we endeavour to address this challenge by reviewing and synthesizing multidisciplinary literature on refugee employment and workforce integration. Using a relational framework, we organize our findings around three levels of analysis -institutional, organizational and individual -to outline the complexity of factors affecting refugees' employment outcomes. Based on our analysis, we introduce and elaborate on the phenomenon of the canvas ceiling -a systemic, multilevel barrier to refugee workforce integration and professional advancement. The primary contributions of this paper are twofold. First, we map and integrate the multidisciplinary findings on the challenges of refugee workforce integration. Second, we provide management scholarship with a future research agenda to address the knowledge gap identified in this review and advance practical developments in this domain.

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“…2012; Ali et al . 2017; Crowley‐Henry et al . 2018; Fossland 2013) and map our findings across three levels of analysis: institutional, organizational and individual (see Figure 1).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unveiling theCanvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration

Lee

Szkudlarek

Nguyen

et al. 2020

Int J Management Reviews

117

126

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“…Insight into the complex nature of well-being does not only require in-depth inner understanding. The relational dynamic between or intersection of the individual, the organization, and society (Ali et al, 2017 ) is important as it provides understanding of systemic conscious and unconscious behavior (Cilliers, 2017 ). As a result, the psycho-social dynamics uncovered in the present study, highlight how intrapersonal dynamics collude with the gendered socio-cultural and organizational system to sustain disparaging stereotypes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Well-Being, More Than a Dream: Women Constructing Metaphors of Strength

Barnard

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Research on gender inequalities in well-being, attribute lower levels of wellness in women to the burden of multiple role demands, particularly during midlife. Using mostly quantitative measures of subjective well-being (SWB), such studies tend to narrow the concept of well-being and overlook the value of in-depth, context-specific inquiry. Work-life balance is also a consistent causative narrative in studies on women's well-being. Yet, such a narrative frequently emphasizes individual agency in a seemingly unattainable quest, implying an anomaly on how women then actually manage to sustain their well-being. The present study therefore explored the work-life experiences of women in their midlife. The aim was to reach a deeper understanding of the psycho-social dynamics at play in sustaining a psychologically-well self. Meta-theoretically the study built on non-traditional and gendered career models that augment female employees' unique career needs. From a socioanalytic stance, this study investigated secondary data gathered from focus groups, which were based on the socioanalytic method of social dream drawing. The data originated from four sessions of social dream drawings, in which the researcher as participant-observer, investigated work-life experiences of seven women. The gathered information was managed through Atlas.ti and processed through phenomenological hermeneutic analysis. The findings contribute to the discourse on women and well-being and give insight into the application of a unique socioanalytic methodology to research in this field from a gendered perspective. Results were analyzed by developing metaphors from the data. These metaphors reflect women's well-being as they present three unique career needs, namely challenge, balance, and authenticity, during their midlife career stage. Findings show how women's projective identification with outdated gender role norms may perpetuate a gendered notion of work-life balance, which consistently challenges their well-being. Projective identifications are evident in introjected feelings of self-doubt, self-stereotyping, and in the tension between female employees' personal and social identities. The study ultimately points to well-being as a dynamic phenomenon, which women sustain by engaging both positive and negative experiences and through identity tasks such as self-awareness, self-authorisation, self-regard, and authentic self-expression. These findings highlight the importance of creating self-reflective space in organizations to facilitate women's psychological well-being.

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“…The article also shows the importance of analytically embedding the intersection of gender and other categories of difference to understand what shapes the uneven experiences of diverse groups. This adds to debates that argue for a more nuanced understanding of intersectionality in work and organizations (Rodriguez et al, ) and responds to calls for more intersectional analyses of the work experiences of skilled migrants (Ali, Malik, Pereira, & Al Ariss, ; Kemp & Rickett, ).…”

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Female and foreign: An intersectional exploration of the experiences of skilled migrant women in Qatar

Rodríguez

Scurry

2019

Gender Work & Organization

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This article explores how the intersection of gender and foreignness shapes the experiences of skilled migrant women. Drawing on interviews with skilled migrant women working in Qatar, we situate their experiences in institutional, organizational and sociocultural terms to show how the intersection is articulated and mobilized to subordinate, marginalize and exclude them in work and social spaces. Findings show that the intersection is used to reinforce the status of the women as outsiders to the country (foreignness) and its cultural order (gender), resulting in structural and qualitative differences in the experiences of the group. In highlighting their nuanced experiences, we contribute to debates about gender, skilled migration and work in the Middle East. We also contribute to intersectionality debates by expanding the conceptual limits and analytical use of social categories of difference to explain experiences of work and unpack the simultaneity of subject positioning within institutional, organizational and sociocultural dynamics.

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A relational understanding of work-life balance of Muslim migrant women in the west: future research agenda

Cited by 67 publications

References 65 publications

Unveiling theCanvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration

Unveiling theCanvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration

Well-Being, More Than a Dream: Women Constructing Metaphors of Strength

Female and foreign: An intersectional exploration of the experiences of skilled migrant women in Qatar

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