This collection of field studies offers novel insights into the issues of migration and integration of immigrants. The focus of the chapters is on actions, processes, and complexity of organising practices, in contrast to more policy-oriented works. The contributors address vital questions: How is the labour market integration of refugees and other immigrants being organised in practice? What ideas of integration give rise to, and are promoted by contemporary integration initiatives? And what are the effects of these integration initiatives – on immigrants’ lives, and on their labour market integration in terms of diversity, gender, and power relations?
With contributions highlighting the importance of coordination and collaboration for the successful organising of integration, this book should be of interest to researchers and advanced students from the fields of management and organisation studies, public administration and management, migration and integration studies, sociology, cultural studies and science and technology studies. It should also interest professionals and policymakers working with integration who face the challenges described here in their daily work.
Author(s): Andreas Diedrich, Barbara Czarniawska
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 305
City: London
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Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction
Part One: Integration—What Is It, and Where Does It Begin?
Part Two: Integration, Translation, and Change
Part Three: Integration—When, Where, and How Does It End?
References
Part I: Integration, What Is It and Where Does It Begin?
2: Alternative Perspectives on Immigrant Accommodation to Society: Implications for Organising, the Labour Market, and Workplace Integration
Introduction
Assimilation, Integration, and Inclusion: Origins and Meanings
Assimilation
Integration
Inclusion
Organisational Practices Associated with Assimilation, Integration, and Inclusion: A Fictional Vignette
Conclusion
References
3: Organising (Refugee) Integration in Sweden: How It Begins
Modes of Ordering
Coordination
Addition Ignoring Discrepancies
Addition with Hierarchy
Calibration
Distribution
Itinerary
Indication Criteria
Conditions of Possibility
Accounting for Previous Realities
Inclusion
Transitive Inclusion
Mutual Inclusion
My Study
Organising Refugees in Stockholm
Conclusions
References
4: “Tough Love”: The Roles Played by Municipal Housing Corporations for Integration of Newly Arrived Immigrants in Vulnerable Neighbourhoods
Data Collection
The Role of Municipal Housing Corporations for Integration
The Roles Played by Housing Corporations
Doing Good and Being Business-like
Activities to Improve the Neighbourhoods
Tackling Wicked Problems: Step by Step and in Collaboration
Discussion and Conclusions
References
Part II: Integration, Translation and Change
5: Procuring for Labour Market Integration
5.1 Integration Policy, Public Organisations, and Public Procurement
5.2 Using Procurement to Promote Employment
5.3 Social Considerations in Procurement: A Gothenburg Version
5.4 A Hampering Paradox, Shifting Towards Competence Supply and Effects
5.4.1 Local Considerations in an International Context
5.4.2 The Shift Towards Competence Supply
5.4.3 Effects and Calculated Benefits
5.5 A Device to Handle with Care
5.5.1 Sources Analysed
References
6: Emancipation Through Learning at Work: Work Cooperatives for “Unemployable” Immigrant Women
Introduction
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Affective Solidarity
Yalla Trappan: A Foreign-Born Women’s Work Cooperative
Are Labour Market Integration Programmes Oppressive?
Alternative Practices: Organising Labour Market Integration Through Women Cooperatives
Openness
Togetherness
Revealing “Womanness”
Conclusion: Valorising Women’s Skills as a Road to Emancipation
References
7: Pluralised Attempts to Translate Refugees’ Labour Market Integration: Field Dynamics in Two Cases of “Promoting Accessibility” in Berlin
Introduction
Translating “Accessibility” in Organisational Fields
Context and Design of the Study
Translating Accessibility in the Field of Labour Market Integration in Berlin
Job-Related Language Promotion
Episode 1: The Long Summer of Migration (2015)
Episode 2: Companies Challenge the Existing Field Regulation (2017/2018)
Episode 3: Fragmentation on the Supply Side (2019)
Creating “Berlin’s Overall Concept for the Integration and Participation of Refugees”
Episode 1: The Concept Is Formed (2017)
Episode 2: Thematic Working Groups and Elaboration of the Concept (2018)
Episode 3: Problems in Most of the Voluntary and Refugee Organisations Remain (2018–2020)
Discussion: Field Dynamics and Their Consequences for the Labour Market Integration of Refugees
References
8: The Italian Non-model. Integrating Immigrant Labour in Practice
Immigration as a Political Issue
Institutional Logics and Organisational Practices
Market- and Community-Based Institutional Logics
The Community-Based Model: The Riace Ambiguity
Gender and Work Integration: A Complex Covenant
Final Remarks
References
9: Integrating Recent Refugees into the Labour Market: The Action Net in Austria
Introduction
The Austrian Context
The Action Net of Integrating Refugees into the Labour Market
How the Action Net Changed After the Arrival of Refugees from Ukraine
Discussion
References
10: Speaking Swedish: The Role of Language Skills in an Integration Support Project
What Level of Swedish Is the “Right” One for Employability?
A Project for Those Who Are Struggling the Most
Emerging Challenges and Responses
An Experiment, or a Model for the Future?
Speaking and Writing Swedish: A Necessity for a Job?
Language Tests: A Pragmatic Solution?
References
11: Organising the “Labour of Hope”: A Critical Take on the Role of Internships and Mentorships in Supporting Highly Skilled Immigrants into Jobs
Introduction
Why Is It Difficult for Highly Skilled Immigrants to Find a Job? Problems and Proposed Solutions
Hoping for a Better Future
The Research Setting
Findings: The Labour of Hope
Being Placed into “Some Kind of Activity”
An Internship Will Lead to a Job…or At Least Another (Swedish) Item on Your CV
A Mentoring Programme Will Get You a Job or At Least Will Develop You as a Person
The Programmes “Bring You Closer to the Labour Market”: But at What Distance?
Discussion: Organising Highly Skilled Immigrants’ Hopes for the Future
References
Part III: Integration, When, Where and How Does It End?
12: Older Immigrants’ Integration: Organisational Processes and Practices in the Australian Context
Introduction
Multiculturalism
Mainstreaming Diversity
Organisation of Care and Services for Older People in Australia
Integration
Incorporating the Life Course Perspective
Method
Results
Migrant Support Organisations Engagement with Ageing Immigrants
Supporting Cultural Autonomy, Language, and Identity in Later Life
Organising Continued Integration for Older Immigrants
Discussion and Conclusion
References
13: But You Are Not an Immigrant! On Nordic Immigration in a Cultural Perspective
Denmark
Scania Becomes Danish!
A New Tribe: Regionauts
“Brians”, Forest Dwellers and Love Refugees
Finland
The Early Novels
The Second Generation
Symmetrical Stereotypes
Being an Underclass
At a Distance
Nordic but Not Scandinavian?
References
14: The “Integration Problem”: A View from the Rocking Chair
The Problem and the View
“Radical Hope” as a Solution
The Problem of the Recipient: Clausewitz’s Logic of Tact
Integration Without Crisis? (When Those Who Are to Be Integrated Have More Attractive Alternatives)
Is There a Way to Make Sense of These Fragments Theoretically?
But There Is No Crisis… or Is There?
References
15: Organising Integration: Some Conclusions and Directions for the Future
Integration as a Boundary Word
Organising Integration as Construction of Action Nets
Agency Is Distributed and Shared, Not Individual
To Conclude
References
Index
