Class, race – and place: immigrants’ self-perceptions on inclusion, belonging and opportunities in Stockholm and Barcelona

Hellgren, Zenia

doi:10.1080/01419870.2018.1532095

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“…Racist insults and crimes of racial, religious, and political discrimination show an increase of intolerance towards the differences, in a society considered global. Attributes such as skin color continue to differentiate the treatment of minority groups, leading to difficulties for their inclusion and identification with the majority society (Hellgren, 2018).…”

Section: Migrants Racial Discrimination and Precarious Workmentioning

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“…Race is as an important element for better understanding immigrants' disadvantages (Hellgren, 2018), and it remains a form of division and selection of the labor market in contemporary society. By preventing a significant part of the population from being permanently racialized, people assume their black identity as a way of reaffirming their humanity condition and their rights (Silverio, 2002).…”

Section: Migrants Racial Discrimination and Precarious Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By preventing a significant part of the population from being permanently racialized, people assume their black identity as a way of reaffirming their humanity condition and their rights (Silverio, 2002). Negative differential treatment, based on the majority of the population, that is, discrimination, can hinder immigrants' access to quality jobs, participation in decision-making, access to housing and attractive places, to resources, and to social participation (Hellgren, 2018). Even after the increase in education rate, specialized work is still a few people's priority, and the block to professional advancement remains at a higher level, especially for the black population (Pochmann, 2006).…”

Section: Migrants Racial Discrimination and Precarious Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Relationship between precarious work and racism for migrants in Brazil

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Amid the growing global flow of goods, workers migrating in search of work face a major challenge of integration in destination countries. Issues of racism and discrimination emerge in the workplace, causing inequality of opportunity. This research aims to describe the relationship between precarious work, discrimination at work, and perception of racism by migrant workers. The preliminary analysis of scientific production on the subject in Brazil suggests that the racist social structure is a condition for the insertion of migrant workers in precarious working conditions, compromising their social insertion. A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted through a survey of four ethnic groups from different Brazilian regions. The results confirm the influence of precarious work on the perception of racism, with discrimination at work being a moderating variable in this relationship.

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Section: Migrants Racial Discrimination and Precarious Workmentioning

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Section: Migrants Racial Discrimination and Precarious Workmentioning

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Section: Migrants Racial Discrimination and Precarious Workmentioning

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“…Empirical evidence presented in this study confirms that low‐status expats are faced with a unique challenge of being prejudiced against by the host nationals. In addition to being denied relevant support by the locals compared with the high‐status expats, the perceived prejudice negatively affects self‐esteem and, by extension, this is expected to affect their job attitudes (Hellgren, ; Shen & Jiang, ). Previous studies have mainly focused on the adaptability and success of high‐status expats giving little focus on low‐status expats; therefore, this research introduces an interesting aspect of analyzing the negative side of expatriation by analyzing the effects of prejudice and lower host nationals' support to expats.…”

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“…Empirical evidence presented in this study confirms that low-status expats are faced with a unique challenge of being prejudiced against by the host nationals. In addition to being denied relevant support by the locals compared with the high-status expats, the perceived prejudice negatively affects self-esteem and, by extension, this is expected to affect their job attitudes (Hellgren, 2018;Shen & Jiang, 2015).…”

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Do identity and status matter? A social identity theory perspective on the adaptability of low‐status expatriates

Sunguh

Abbas

Olabode

et al. 2019

Journal of Public Affairs

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The study aims to investigate the effect of identify and status in the field of global mobility and expatriate management. It conceptualizes perceived prejudice towards low‐status expatriates (LSE) though the social identity theory (SIT) lens and examines the effect it has on two state self‐esteem domains, that is, performance self‐esteem and social self‐esteem. The study also highlights that the moderation roles education level and age of expatriates play towards their adaptability. In doing so, it seeks to expand the expatriate management domain by investigating the negative side associated with expatriation. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to analyze responses from 373 LSE working in China. The results provide evidence indicating the significance attached to status and identity, thus indicating that perceived prejudice significantly affects expatriate's self‐esteem negatively and that age and education level mitigate these effects by moderating the relationship. Age and education level attained by the expatriates are found to be significant moderators in this relationship. The study therefore proposes the use of SIT as a powerful theoretical lens for understanding LSE.

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Intercultural Citizenship in the Making: Public Space and Belonging in Discriminatory Environments

Zapata‐Barrero

Hellgren

2023

IMISCOE Research Series

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Public space is essential to foster a sense of belonging among immigrants and racialized groups. This is especially true for groups who are still framed as different in relation to an abstract but taken-for-granted notion of we-ness that remains strongly connected to colonial thinking (Mayblin & Turner, 2021), according to which people perceived as white and western represent the norm in European societies. In this chapter we assume that there is an interrelation between the concepts of discrimination and interculturalism that is essential for the life conditions of immigrants and racialized groups. On the one hand, ethnic discrimination constitutes an impediment for the fulfilment of interculturalist policy goals, while on the other hand, interculturalism, understood as a strategy promoting contact among people from different backgrounds, including nationals, may potentially constitute a fruitful political and discursive tool to combat discrimination (Hellgren & Zapata-Barrero, 2022). In this chapter we defend that intercultural citizenship is a useful conceptual framework to analytically examine how such belonging could be constructed in multiethnic urban neighbourhoods, understanding multiplicity of linkages across ethnic divides as a key element. For such multiple ways of understanding contact (including formal/informal, conventional/unconventional, and also nonverbal communication, body language, eye contact, gestures and even silence (Samovar et al., 2015) to fulfil the conditions of citizenship-making and developing a sense of belonging need to take place under conditions of equality and power-sharing or be discrimination-free. We contend therefore that these people-to-place linkages in diversity settings are even more important than the probably more traditional people-to-people linkages that usually define interculturalism (Zapata-Barrero, 2017). For instance, migrants tend to use open public spaces, community gardens, and parks to gather and congregate in ways that are reminiscent of their home country, transforming the parks of their adoptive community into familiar spaces, creating an “autotopography” that links their daily practices and life experiences to a deep sense of place (Agyeman, 2017).

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Class, race – and place: immigrants’ self-perceptions on inclusion, belonging and opportunities in Stockholm and Barcelona

Cited by 25 publications

References 19 publications

Relationship between precarious work and racism for migrants in Brazil

Relationship between precarious work and racism for migrants in Brazil

Do identity and status matter? A social identity theory perspective on the adaptability of low‐status expatriates

Intercultural Citizenship in the Making: Public Space and Belonging in Discriminatory Environments

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