Children or productive adults? Infantilisation and exploitation of refugees in Germany and Austria.

Autor/in	Harbisch, Amelie
Titel	Children or productive adults? Infantilisation and exploitation of refugees in Germany and Austria. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kinder oder produktive Erwachsene? Infantilisierung und Ausbeutung von Flüchtlingen in Deutschland und Österreich.
Quelle	In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 50 (2024) 6, S. 1590-1608 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1369-183X; 1469-9451
DOI	10.1080/1369183X.2023.2166908
Schlagwörter	Stereotyp; Fremdeinschätzung; Vorurteil; Fremdsprachenkenntnisse; Arbeitspolitik; Ausbeutung; Arbeitsmarkt; Berufliche Integration; Erwerbspersonenpotenzial; Qualifikationsanforderung; Unterwertige Beschäftigung; Arbeitsförderungsmaßnahme; Internationaler Vergleich; Flüchtling; Berlin; Deutschland; Wien; Österreich
Abstract	"The persisting poor labor market integration of refugees and asylum seekers is puzzling, especially given host states' declared desirability of refugees and asylum seekers being employed. Existing research on the determinants of refugees' lack of labor market integration has analyzed possible factors such as refugee health and education as well as host countries' policies and discrimination. Based on original ethnographic data generated in Berlin and Vienna in 2019, I argue that the poor labor market integration can be better understood when we consider colliding perceptions, called scripts, of refugees and asylum seekers: At the same time that they are constructed as potentially useful labor, they are also constructed as helpless children who can never quite be ready for the labor market. I present each script's ascriptions and prescriptions towards refugees and asylum seekers, show how these are enacted by the people subjected to them and analyse how disruptions occur when there are simultaneous, contradictory demands. Policy implications are that the host society's perceptions do matter and that integration measures must be reviewed with regard to their potentially infantilising tendencies." The study refers to the period 2019-2019. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2024/1