Conquering the Labour Market - The Socioeconomic Enablement of Refugee Women in Austria

Autor(en)

David Wolfgang Schiestl, Bernhard Kittel, Maite Ibanez-Bollerhoff

Abstrakt

Refugee women from the Near and Middle East face specific challenges when entering the Austrian labour market. Particularly gender-based factors, including care and reproductive work, exert pressure on these women and constitute major hurdles for successful entry into employment in Austria. Based on nine qualitative interviews with refugee women who swiftly gained entry to the labour market as well as ten qualitative interviews with experts from public and private support organisations, we investigate refugee women's social and cultural capital as well as the individual agencies that foster paths into the labour market. We introduce the concept of enablement as the process of gathering the preconditions for overcoming the challenges that arise on that path. Finally, we illuminate the ways in which the three dimensions of individual, relational and institutional enablement interrelate and shape individual agency with regard to labour market integration.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Wirtschaftssoziologie

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Bristol

Journal

Comparative Migration Studies

Band

9

Anzahl der Seiten

18

ISSN

2214-594X

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00267-9

Publikationsdatum

12-2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504030 Wirtschaftssoziologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Demography, Geography, Planning and Development, Law, Sociology and Political Science, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/64271cc5-9190-411d-850c-cf10987a56fc