Gender, age and migration: an intersectional approach to inequalities in the labour market

Stypińska, Justyna; Gordo, Laura Romeu

doi:10.1007/s10433-017-0419-2

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“…Older migrants' career trajectories are often marked by precariousness, social disadvantage, economic illness and hardship (Chin, 2019 ). Further, older migrants face discrimination not only in terms of age, but also potentially based on ethnicity, disability and gender (Stypińska and Gordo, 2018 ). Here, it is important to draw lessons from the literature on intersectionality to recognize that the barriers which older migrants face may be unique and separate from those of both older non-migrant workers and younger migrants.…”

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Older Migrants and Overcoming Employment Barriers: Does Community Activism Provide the Answer?

Flynn

Wong

2022

Front. Sociol.

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As populations age and pension ages rise, there is a growing interest in the ability of workers to extend working life. In response to a call for a more robust dialogue on the heterogeneity of the older workforce, this article explores the interplay between different employment barriers faced by one group facing significant employment barriers: older migrants. Older Chinese migrants in the United Kingdom face multiple barriers to work resulting from age, ethnicity and the intersectionality of such barriers which creates a unique set of barriers to continued work. Community activism can play an important role in supporting older constituents, particularly in matching the skills which they have to offer with the needs within and beyond the migrant community. In this study, we use Participatory Action Research to explore with older Chinese migrants the barriers they face in the job market and how community activism can empower them in maintaining employment. As government seeks to raise real retirement ages, more research is needed on its implications for vulnerable groups of older people including migrants.

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Older Migrants and Overcoming Employment Barriers: Does Community Activism Provide the Answer?

Flynn

Wong

2022

Front. Sociol.

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“…It would be possible to examine, for example, the intersectionality of class, profession, religion, culture, and other identifiers in ways that enable drivers and expressions of power dynamics. Bastia (2014) and Stypińska and Romeu Gordo (2018) are examples of the use of intersectionality in relation to development–migration and inequalities, although heritage and cultural identity have not been the focus of these articles.…”

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Heritage practices as development's blind spot: A case study of Coptic tattooing in Libya and Egypt

Tadros

2022

Development Policy Review

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Summary Motivation The relationship between heritage and international development has been understudied despite more recent attempts to highlight the role of culture, and heritage as an element of it, for holistic and sustainable conceptions of development. Purpose The article explores the relationship between heritage practices and inclusive development through the exploration of the role of Coptic tattooing in shaping the experiences of Coptic men as migrant workers in Libya and as job‐seekers in Egypt, and of Coptic women in Egypt. Methods and approach The methodology combined primary and secondary data and is informed by a grounded theory approach; 20 in‐depth interviews with Coptic migrants who had worked in Libya and returned to Egypt is complemented by over 80 interviews with Coptic women and men across different generations living in southern Egypt who have imprinted religious tattoos. Findings The main findings are that the presence of a tattoo, an embodied form of religious heritage practice, contributed to exposing Coptic Egyptian migrant men to religious profiling and targeting, to the point of putting their lives in danger. The prohibition of Egyptian labour migration to Libya would not remove the susceptibility of these Coptic men to economic exclusion and discrimination since employers in Egypt also vetted them out in the labour force. Policy implications Policy‐making can enable more “heritage‐aware development” by undertaking situational and context analysis that takes into account the full spectrum of the sources and drivers of inequality and exclusion; by considering ways in which experiences and responses to heritage practices can shed light on exclusion and developing policies that take into account the immateriality of “otherization” and are designed to be purposely inclusive.

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“…In fact, in some studies of immigrant women's wages, occupational status is included as an explanatory variable. Evidence from Germany (Stypińska andGordo 2018), Sweden (Grand andSzulkin 2002), and Spain (Nicodemo and Ramos 2012) all show that occupational status factors into female immigrants' wage disadvantage. Nonetheless, studies also examine occupational status in its own right, either with regard to occupational segregation, over-qualification, or occupational mobility over time-all issues that impact the position of immigrant women on the labor market.…”

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“…Husted et al (2000);Nielsen et al (2004);Basilio et al (2009);Fullin and Reyneri (2011);Kogan (2011);Pichler (2011);Steinhardt (2012);Fleischmann and Höhne (2013);Gathmann and Keller (2018);Stypińska and Gordo (2018) …”

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The labor market integration of immigrant women in Europe: context, theory, and evidence

Schieckoff

Sprengholz

2021

SN Soc Sci

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In this overview, we seek to provide a comprehensive resource for scholars of female immigrant labor market integration in Europe, to act both as a reference and a roadmap for future studies in this domain. We begin by presenting a contextual history of immigration to and within Europe since the Second World War, before outlining the major theoretical assumptions about immigrant women’s labor market disadvantage. We then synthesize the empirical findings from quantitative studies published between 2000 and 2020 and analyze how they line up with the theoretical predictions. We supplement the review with descriptive analyses using data from 2019, which expose any discrepancies between the current situation in European countries and the situation during the time periods considered in the reviewed studies. Our review has three main take-aways. First, the theoretically relevant determinants of immigrant women’s labor market integration are generally supported by empirical evidence, but the unexplained heterogeneity that remains in many cases between immigrant women and other groups on the labor market calls for more systematic and comprehensive investigations. Second, quantitative studies which take a holistic approach to studying the labor market disadvantages of immigrant women—and all the considerations related to their gender and nativity that this entails—are rare in this body of literature, and future studies should address this. Third, fruitful avenues for future contributions to this field include expanding on certain overlooked outcomes, like immigrant women’s self-employment, as well as geographic regions that until now have received little attention, especially by employing the most recent data.

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Gender, age and migration: an intersectional approach to inequalities in the labour market

Cited by 15 publications

References 41 publications

Older Migrants and Overcoming Employment Barriers: Does Community Activism Provide the Answer?

Older Migrants and Overcoming Employment Barriers: Does Community Activism Provide the Answer?

Heritage practices as development's blind spot: A case study of Coptic tattooing in Libya and Egypt

The labor market integration of immigrant women in Europe: context, theory, and evidence

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