Race Discrimination and Management of Ethnic Diversity and Migration at Work

Joana Vassilopoulou is an Associate Professor in HRM at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London. She also works at the Erasmus Centre for Women and Organizations, Erasmus University in The Netherlands. Her research focuses on race and gender equality and migrants at work.Julienne Brabet is Professor Emeritus of Management at Université Paris Est Créteil, a Vice-President of the Société Française de Management and an Honorary Fellow of EURAM (European Academy of Management). Victoria Showunmi is a Senior Lecturer at the University College London, researching within the areas of gender, education and the wellbeing of young black women, specifically in relation to educational leadership and gender policies.

This volume compiles 10 essays by business, management, education, sociology, and other researchers from Europe, who consider developments and manifestations of race discrimination in the labor market in the European Union, focusing on France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Italy, Cypress, and Greece. Each country chapter describes the historical context for issues of racism and discrimination at work, equality, and diversity; facts, statistics, and demographics about ethnicity in society and at work in each country; the discourse pertaining to race discrimination and race equality at work; the measures used at the national and organizational levels to tackle race discrimination and its effects; and specific cases, particularly migrant workers. An introductory chapter explores the idea of ethnic diversity and Europe-wide differences in defining and managing ethnic diversity and equality.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Setting the context of race discrimination at work in the European Union; Joana Vassilopoulou and Julienne Brabet Chapter 2: Reflections on definitions, methods, challenges of and ways forward for ethnic counting in Europe; Semra Karakas and Mustafa Ozbilgin Chapter 3: The French Model and the discriminations toward visible minorities at work; Julienne Brabet, Maria-Giuseppina Bruna, Jean-François Chanlat and Florimond Labulle Chapter 4: An overview of diversity policies in the public and private sector that seek to increase the representation of migrants and ethnic minorities in the workplace. The case of Germany; Joana Vassilopoulou, Andreas Merx and Verena Bruchhagen Chapter 5: Race Discrimination and the Management of Ethnic Diversity at Work: The Case of Elementary Teachers in Ireland; Thomas Walsh and Rory McDaid Chapter 6: Race Discrimination at Work in the UK; Rifat Kamasak, Mustafa Ozbilgin, Meltem Yavuz and Can Akalin Chapter 7: Ethnic discrimination in the labour market: the Dutch case; Dr. Iris AndriessenChapter 8: Discrimination at work: The case of Norway;  Arnfinn H. Midtbøen Chapter 9: The intertwinement of symbolic and structural violence: Migrant agricultural labourers in two regions of Southern Italy; Martina Lo Cascio and Domenico Perrotta Chapter 10: Migrants in the workplace: the case of Cyprus; Andri Georgiadou Chapter 11: (Un)Maid in Greece: Repercussions of precarious, low-status work on family and community networks of solidarity of migrant Filipina live-in domestic workers and race discrimination at work; Theodoros Fouskas Chapter 12: Conclusion: Race Discrimination at work in Europe: a civil society perspective; Michaël Privot