Underemploying highly skilled migrants: An organizational logic protecting corporate ‘normality’
| Autor: | Laurence Romani, Annette Risberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Underemployment
Employment Labour economics Norms Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject High-skilled migrants Relational theory of risk Organizational normality Employability Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Hiring skilled migrants Normality media_common Highly skilled 05 social sciences 050209 industrial relations General Social Sciences Highly-skilled migrants Ask price Business 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Human Relations |
| ISSN: | 1741-282X 0018-7267 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0018726721992854 |
| Popis: | Why do highly skilled migrants encounter difficulties getting a skilled job? In this study, instead of searching for an answer in migrants’ characteristics, we turn to organizations and ask: why do organizations underemploy highly skilled migrants? With an in-depth qualitative study of a programme for highly skilled migrants’ labour integration in Sweden, we show that highly skilled migrants are perceived as a potential threat to organizational norms and practices. Using the relational theory of risk – approaching risk as socially constructed – the study provides a novel explanation for highly skilled migrants’ underemployment. It shows an organization logic protecting corporate practices seen as ‘normal’ from a perceived disruption that employing highly skilled migrants could possibly cause. Theoretical contributions to the understanding of highly skilled migrants’ employability are threefold: (1) the field assumption that organizations are in favour of hiring migrants is challenged; (2) highly skilled migrants’ underemployment is explained through a protective organizational logic; and (3) we stress the necessity to problematize an implicit reference to organizational normality when recruiting. |
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