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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Midtboeen, Arnfinn H

Titel

The Invisible Second Generation? Statistical Discrimination and Immigrant Stereotypes in Employment Processes in Norway

Ist Teil von

• Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 2014-10, Vol.40 (10), p.1657-1675

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Although children of immigrants usually have acquired fluency in the majority language as well as domestic educational qualifications and work experience, recent quantitative and experimental studies indicate that the 'second generation' experiences discrimination in accessing entry-level jobs in Europe. In this article, I take as my point of departure a field experiment documenting that descendants of Pakistani immigrants indeed face discrimination in the Norwegian labour market, and use data from in-depth interviews with 42 of the employers subjected to research in the experiment to explore the decision-making processes leading to the disadvantages observed. The qualitative material suggests that stereotypes associated with immigrants are inferred from ethnically distinct names by employers, and that negative experiences are generalised between ethnic groups and across generations. The implications for the employment opportunities of children of immigrants are potentially severe. Instead of experiencing equal access to the labour market, they encounter attitudes and stereotypes attached to their parents' generation, making their domestic educational qualifications and linguistic fluency 'invisible' in the eyes of employers.