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Author Sheikh, Hina

Title How Global Migration Changes the Workforce Diversity Equation
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (501 pages)
Series ADAPT labour studies book-series
ADAPT labour studies book-series.
Contents Table of contents; list of illustrations; list of tables; introduction; chapter one; global migration flowsand income differentials; the relevance of africandiaspora in britain; the grand duchy of luxembourg; the migration of central easterneuropean physicians to germany; innovation through integration; temporary migrant workersin australian horticulture; chapter two; why firms need diversity managersand task forces; the legal treatment of banterin national origin employmentdiscrimination cases; diversity management in the italiancontract catering sector
Contributions and barriersto developing black and latinoleadership in the publicand nonprofit sectors of the economychapter three; occupational licensureand changing barriers to immigrantworkforce incorporation; trade unions and migration in europe; migrants and the differentperspectives on diversity managementwithin trade unions; coping with internationalmigration and diversity; tensions that make a difference; competing for jobs or welfare?the material manifestationof anti-immigrant sentimentin belgium and spain; the legal construction of precariousmigrant work relations; contributors
Summary This volume explores some of the ways that a dialogue between diversity researchers and migration researchers can deepen the understanding of both. It moves across economics, sociology, political science, labour relations, and legal studies, demonstrating that the value of this dialogue cuts across disciplines. The book particularly underlines the challenges faced in host societies, including exclusion to the point of ""hyper-precarity, "" anti-migrant attitudes, and the widespread organizationa ..
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Foreign workers.
Emigration and immigration.
Diversity in the workplace.
Emigration and Immigration
immigration.
emigration.
Migration period (Medieval culture or period)
migrations (events)
Sociology: work & labour.
Population & demography.
Society & social sciences.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Diversity in the workplace
Emigration and immigration
Foreign workers
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Sperotti, Francesca
Tilly, Chris
Pilati, Massimo
ISBN 9781443878784
1443878782