Learning to Live Together—Towards a New Integration Society

Piñeiro, Esteban; Haller, Jane

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1466-3_7

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“…Over time, the situation of guest workers was ameliorated, allowing for family reunions during the early 1960s and resulting in the continued expansion of the permanent foreign resident population (e.g., Ruedin et al 2013). By the 1990s, the guest-worker system was replaced with a three-and then a twotiered labor-market model (Pineiro and Haller 2012). Since 2003, following the introduction of the free movement of persons, high-skilled immigration, particularly from European countries, grew relatively stronger (Becker et al 2008), and the highest share of immigrants arrived from Western European countries, followed by Southern and Eastern Europe.…”

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Can signaling assimilation mitigate hiring discrimination? Evidence from a survey experiment

Fossati

Liechti

Auer

2020

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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Using a survey experiment, we test whether discrimination against job candidates with a secondgeneration migration background varies by signaling either assimilation into the host society or attachment to the country of origin. In our study, Swiss HR managers evaluate descriptions of fictitious CVs in which we vary the origin, language proficiency, and extracurricular activity of the jobseekers with and without a cultural context. The findings reveal that candidates with Polish-or Turkishsounding names are evaluated worse than candidates with Swiss-or Spanish-sounding names. The effect of signaling attachment to the native and host country culture depends on the perceived distance of the cultural background. A candidate with a Spanish-sounding name who speaks the native language and acts as a chairperson in a Spanish cultural association is granted a better evaluation by employers. Regarding the Polish applicants, neither signaling attachment to the country of origin nor assimilation to the Swiss background makes a significant difference. In contrast, regarding applicants with Turkishsounding names, signaling assimilation improves employers' evaluation of their profile, whereas signaling attachment to the Turkish culture either by an extra curricula activity or indicating proficiency in both the Swiss and Turkish languages leads to significantly worse evaluations. We conclude that especially for individuals stemming from origins that are perceived as culturally distant, signaling attachment to the culture of origin may result in a higher occurrence of discrimination, even when the signal indicates higher human-or social-capital of the jobseeker.

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Section: Migration In Switzerlandmentioning

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Can signaling assimilation mitigate hiring discrimination? Evidence from a survey experiment

Fossati

Liechti

Auer

2020

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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“…In other words, we aim to show how governing works as a form of exclusionary inclusion and inclusionary exclusion on refugees and immigrants, and what they must adopt and adapt to as part of their subjectification process in order to become integrateable. It is also crucial to say that governing is multidimensional rather than a form of domination, and is related to the emergence of a specific type of individualism that constructs its own particular subjectification, which in this article is understood as 'integrateable' (see Piñeiro & Haller 2012).…”

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Becoming integrateable: hidden realities of integration policies and training in Finland

Masoud

Holm

Brunila

2019

International Journal of Inclusive Education

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This article scrutinizes the normalised realities behind integration policies and training for refugees and immigrants that are claimed to be inclusive. The 'great narrative' of Finland has been focused on equal opportunity via education and training, which makes it even more important to examine the hidden realities and how such realities affect the integration process. We focus on labour marketoriented integration training, since employment is considered to be the most important element for successful integration and social inclusion. Our data consists of interviews with twenty refugees, five immigrants, six integration professionals and three policy makers, in addition to ethnographic field notes. Through a discursive approach and utilising studies on governmentality, we unveil how governing through integration practices works. The article explores how integration practices that claim to be inclusionary are maintaining forms of exclusion, which becomes a mechanism of exclusionary inclusion. Our analysis shows what refugees and immigrants have to adopt and adapt to as part of their own subjectification in order to become integrateable, and thus includable.

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Die Kunst, „ganze Menschen“ zu regieren. Über die politische Vermenschlichung ausländischer Arbeitskräfte

Piñeiro

2015

Arbeit, Migration Und Soziale Arbeit

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Learning to Live Together—Towards a New Integration Society

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Can signaling assimilation mitigate hiring discrimination? Evidence from a survey experiment

Can signaling assimilation mitigate hiring discrimination? Evidence from a survey experiment

Becoming integrateable: hidden realities of integration policies and training in Finland

Die Kunst, „ganze Menschen“ zu regieren. Über die politische Vermenschlichung ausländischer Arbeitskräfte

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