Beskrivelse
This study identifies micro-level, interpersonal experiences with discrimination in professional, organizational settings, as accounted by highly qualified migrants in Denmark. Conceptually, the study departs from Sue et al.’s (2007) groundwork on microaggression, in particular their notions of microinsult and microinvalidation. Further, the study employs the notion of ‘Communication Constitutes Organizations’ (CCO), to understand how individual discriminatory speech acts may manifest institutional discrimination. Thematic analysis and deductive content analysis of narrative interviews with highly qualified migrants highlight the most common microaggressions. Microaggressions detrimentally affect psychological and physical health and trigger a cycle of insecurity and alienation from the host country. Despite being discursively framed as ‘welcomed migrants’ in a tense political climate, highly qualified migrants report several specific types of microaggression they experience at work settings. This study shows that migrants experience five types of microaggression. Beyond Sue et al’s initial categories of 1) microinsult and 2) microinvalidation, migrants report microinsults by comparison (being ‘the good migrant’), microexclusion, often by mundane boundary construction, and microinvisibilization, a communicative disregard of the migrant’s heritage. The study draws attention to veiled forms of individual and by extension institutional discrimination at places of work, and implications of this discrimination for the so called ‘welcomed’ migrants.| Periode | 10. dec. 2024 |
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| Begivenhedstitel | Research Seminar (4/2024) Organizing Social Sustainability |
| Begivenhedstype | Workshop |
| Placering | Sønderborg, DanmarkVis på kort |
| Grad af anerkendelse | International |