Migrants, Ethnic Minorities and the Labour Market

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Discrimination and Diversity

   1. Introduction: Discrimination and Diversity

      • Andrea Rea, John Wrench, Nouria Ouali

      Pages 1-18

3. Internal Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Young Migrants in the Belgian Labour Market: Integration, Discrimination and Exclusion

      • Nouria Ouali, Andrea Rea

      Pages 21-34

   3. Workers of Migrant Origin in Germany: Forms of Discrimination in the Labour Market and at the Workplace

      • Nora Räthzel

      Pages 35-53

   4. From School to the Labour Market in Britain: the Qualitative Exposure of Structures of Exclusion

      • John Wrench, Edgar Hassan, Tarek Qureshi

      Pages 54-71

   5. Foreigners and Immigrants in the French Labour Market: Structural Inequality and Discrimination

      • François Vourc’h, Véronique De Rudder, Maryse Tripier

      Pages 72-92

   6. Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands: Discrimination in Access to Employment

      • Mitzi Gras, Frank Bovenkerk

      Pages 93-107

   7. The Labour Market for Immigrant Women in Sweden: Marginalised Women in Low-valued Jobs

      • Wuokko Knocke

      Pages 108-131

   8. Young People of Foreign Origin Born in Switzerland: Between Invisibility and Diversity

      • Francesca Poglia Mileti

      Pages 132-152

4. New Flows

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Seasonal Work in Italy: Flexibility and Regularisation

      • Giovanna Campani, Francesco Carchedi

      Pages 155-173

   3. Immigrants in Spain: From Institutional Discrimination to Labour Market Segmentation

      • Lorenzo Cachón

      Pages 174-194

   4. Refugee Care in Sweden: the Problems of Unemployment and anti-Discrimination Policies

      • Maritta Soininen

      Pages 195-216

5. Responses and Implications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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   2. Migratory Movements: the Position, the Outlook. Charting a Theory and Practice for Trade Unions

      • Albert Martens

      Pages 219-228

   3. Employers and anti-Discrimination Measures in Europe: Good Practice and Bad Faith

      • John Wrench

      Pages 229-251

6. Back Matter

   Pages 252-274

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This book examines racial and ethnic discrimination in the labour markets and workplaces of western Europe. Scholars from ten different countries set out the experience and implications of this exclusion for two main groups: the more established second and third generations of postwar migrant descent, and the 'new' migrants, including seasonal and undocumented workers and refugees, who are vulnerable to extreme exploitation and unregulated working environments. The book finishes by addressing the implications of these issues for trade unions and employers in Europe.

• employment
• integration
• labor market
• migrants
• Minorities
• unemployment
• unions

• Danish Centre for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

  John Wrench

• Centre de Sociologie Politique Institut de Sociologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  Andrea Rea

• Centre de Sociologie du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Formation, Institut de Sociologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  Nouria Ouali

FRANK BOVENKERK Professor of Criminology, Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Sciences, University of Utrecht LORENZO CACHÖN Professor of Sociology, University of Madrid GIOVANNA CAMPANI Department of Science, Università degli Studi di Firenze FRANCESCO CARCHEDI President of PARSEC (Research and Social Intervention), Rome VÉRONIQUE DE RUDDER CNRS Researcher to URMIS (Unité de Recherche: Migrations et Societé) MITZI GRAS Researcher, Municipal Health Service, Amsterdam EDGAR HASSAN Researcher, Open University, Milton Keynes WUOKKO KNOCKE Senior Researcher, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm ALBERT MARTENS Professor in Sociology of Industrial Relations, University of Leuven FRANCESCA POGLIA MILETI Institute of Sociology, University of Neuchâtel TAREQ QURESHI Policy Officer, Centre for Policy of Ageing, London NORA RÄTHZEL Researcher, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Bremen MARITTA SOININEN Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Stockholm MERYSE TRIPIER Professor of Sociology, University of Paris 7, Denis Diderot FRANCOIS VOURC'H Sociologist and CNRS Researcher attached to URMIS, Universités Paris 7 and Paris 8

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