The Relational Reproduction of Inequality: Organizational Structures of Disadvantage in the Syrian Refugee Crisis
This study furthers our understanding of how the inequalities that characterize the lives of refugees are substantively constituted and reproduced within workplace settings by a web of interactions among employers and local workers, supported by weak state intervention and strong societal belief systems. We find that the institutionalization of refugees’ positions in organizations is a collective endeavor by actors through specific forms of relationships that are recursively linked to broader institutional structures. In identifying the mechanisms of interactional silencing, distancing, and degrading, we show how refugees become involved in the co-construction of the system in which they are embedded. We thus further theory on how patterns of structural disadvantage are enacted daily within the increasingly salient context of refugee workforce integration.
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