Struggles for recognition: The politics of racioethnic identity among Dutch national tax administrators

Siebers, Hans

doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2008.11.009

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“…The third respondent said "they discriminate against me simply because I am a Christian woman", the thought that was completely supported by the discourse of respondent number 17 who clarified that the majority of patients prefer to be served by Christian nurses because only Christian nurses fully understand their job duties not only because nursing is considered a human humble act but also because responsible job performance reflects a good image of religious belief. Schaafsma (2008) and Siebers (2009b) indicate that people use similarities and dissimilarities to categorize themselves into groups, and as such they positively evaluate people who are similar and negatively evaluate those who are different. This provides interpretation for why Christian nurses only believe in other Christian colleagues.…”

Section: How Nurses Perceive Their Diversity Within the Context Of Kamentioning

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How do nurses perceive their cultural diversity? An exploratory case study

Mohamed

2017

Afr. J. Bus. Manage.

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Due to its effect on both individual outcomes like job mobility, job satisfaction, job involvement and fair remuneration on the one hand and organizational outcomes like employees' attendance, turnover, cynicism and performance on the other, diversity has become a rising trend more than ever before. The concept is no longer limited to Western countries but has become popular in many parts of the world. This study focuses only on Kasr El Eini hospital and in an attempt to investigate how nurses perceive their diversity. 25 semi-structured interviews were conducted, and the findings reflect that nurses at Kasr El Eini hospital, like many other classes of Egyptian society, struggle in a state of division and lack the value of inclusion in their workplace. Moreover, distributive justice was perceived with doubt by nurses there. The study ends with the recommendation that managers at Kasr El Eini hospital establish a professional identity for the hospital in which the concept "good colleague" should be utilized. Furthermore, paying attention to both inclusion and justice is also a needed mechanism there.

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Section: How Nurses Perceive Their Diversity Within the Context Of Kamentioning

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How do nurses perceive their cultural diversity? An exploratory case study

Mohamed

2017

Afr. J. Bus. Manage.

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“…This denotational vagueness in job criteria, euphemized into soft skills, does not have arbitrary (nondiscriminatory) effects on the workforce. On the contrary, the use of fuzzy and ambiguous criteria in assessment procedures has been widely documented to fuel ethnic inequality in work settings (e.g., Campbell and Roberts ; Moss and Tilly ; Siebers and ). The argument advocated by Siebers is that fuzzy criteria exacerbate ethnic inequality because they calibrate and evaluate employees' qualities on the basis of subjective judgment rather than objective criteria, and thus allow for unequal treatment.…”

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“All of Me”: PsychologizingTurkish‐Dutch Police Officers in theNetherlands

Mutsaers

2014

Anthropology of Work Review

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This article offers a critical take on the excessive use of psychological applications in the work sphere, that is, management techniques that open up the psyche of the individual employee to interceptions, evaluations, and manipulations by superiors. It builds upon existing work on the psychologization of labor under the aegis of human resource apparatuses and contributes to it by centralizing the role that confessions have in this process. The article details the careers of Fehim and Halil, both Turkish-Dutch officers working for a Dutch police agency.The field data, which have been obtained through an ethnographic fieldwork between 2008 and 2013, offer an insight into how psychological applications (such as personal development plans, "fireplace sessions," empowerment courses, personality surveys, etc.) affect labor relations. The analysis opens up pathways for a better understanding of ethnic inequality in the workplace.

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“…The events in the media and political arena discussed earlier in this article are no isolated phenomena, but reflect a pattern of practices. There is power involved in the knowledge about and the meanings attributed to these events as there are striking similarities in the ways in which respondents understand and react to these events (Siebers, 2009b), whatever the sources of information or the type of discourse involved. Moreover, the current study shows that this knowledge has serious material consequences, in this case reflected in inequality in career advancement.…”

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The Impact of Migrant-Hostile Discourse in the Media and Politics on Racioethnic Closure in Career Development in the Netherlands

Siebers

2010

International Sociology

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Racioethnic inequality is a persistent trait of labour markets in countries that receive transnational migration flows. Little is known about the societal factors that influence the production of such inequality. Based on research among employees of the Dutch national tax administration, this article identifies the rise of a migrant-hostile discourse that has come to dominate Dutch politics and media since 2000 as an example of a societal factor that aggravates racioethnic closure in career advancement. It shows that tensions among colleagues triggered by public events that express this discourse fuel the career insecurities of migrant employees in particular. This insecurity has negative career consequences for them. The article argues that the study of racioethnic inequality in the labour markets of migrant-receiving countries needs to include a focus on the impact of (changes in) dominant discourses in the media and the political arena on migrants and migration.

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Struggles for recognition: The politics of racioethnic identity among Dutch national tax administrators

Cited by 43 publications

References 37 publications

How do nurses perceive their cultural diversity? An exploratory case study

How do nurses perceive their cultural diversity? An exploratory case study

“All of Me”: PsychologizingTurkish‐Dutch Police Officers in theNetherlands

The Impact of Migrant-Hostile Discourse in the Media and Politics on Racioethnic Closure in Career Development in the Netherlands

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