Exploring the politics of linguistic difference: the construction of language requirements for migrants in jobs traditionally conducted by local native speakers

IF 1.2 4区管理学 Q4 MANAGEMENT Culture and Organization Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI:10.1080/14759551.2023.2170375

A. Theunissen, Koen Van Laer

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Abstract

ABSTRACT While linguistic difference has been identified as an organizational source of disadvantage for migrants, the construction of language requirements in relation to which these differences emerge has rarely been examined. Yet, this is key to understand the politics of difference. Taking a social constructionist approach and relying on the concept of the ideal worker, this article analyzes a case study of an organization that hires migrants for jobs that used to be conducted by local native speakers. This research shows how conflicting constructions of language requirements may emerge in relation to different contextual causal powers. This might lead migrants to be constructed as different and not different from contrasting ideal worker notions, resulting in their simultaneous inclusion and marginalization in jobs at the bottom of the labour market. Moreover, this conflict generates the notion of the ideal non-ideal worker, which may produce a hierarchical differentiation within the category of migrant workers.

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语言差异的政治探索:传统上由当地母语人士从事的工作对移民语言要求的建构

虽然语言差异已被确定为移民不利的组织来源，但与这些差异相关的语言要求的构建却很少被研究。然而，这是理解差异政治的关键。本文采用社会建构主义的方法，以理想工人的概念为基础，分析了一个组织雇佣移民从事过去由当地母语人士从事的工作的案例研究。本研究揭示了语言要求的冲突结构是如何与不同的语境因果力相关的。这可能导致将移徙者定义为不同于对比鲜明的理想工人概念，而不是不同，从而导致他们同时被纳入劳动力市场底层的工作并被边缘化。此外，这种冲突产生了理想的非理想工人的概念，这可能会在农民工类别内产生等级分化。

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Culture and Organization MANAGEMENT-

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期刊介绍： Culture and Organization was founded in 1995 as Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies . It represents the intersection of academic disciplines that have developed distinct qualitative, empirical and theoretical vocabularies to research organization, culture and related social phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as organizational, communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The Journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understanding of organizational phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understand-ing of organizational phenomena.