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Journal | Identities-Global studies in culture and power |
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Date | Accepted/In press - 4 Oct 2018 |
Date | E-pub ahead of print - 23 Oct 2018 |
Date | Published (current) - 2019 |
Issue number | 3 |
Volume | 26 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Pages (from-to) | 321-338 |
Early online date | 23/10/18 |
Original language | English |
This article presents an analysis of employment trajectories of refugee staff in migrant support and advocacy organisations in the UK, Austria and the Netherlands. In contrast to existing scholarship, it takes refugees’ success in finding employment as a starting point. Moreover, it makes an important contribution to extant literature by identifying the unique features of a niche employment sector for refugees: migrant support organisations. I demonstrate that the mainstream explanatory concepts of ‘labour market segmentation’ and ‘ethnic niche’ fail to capture refugees’ pathway from client to service provider and neglect the sector’s status as a mid- to high-skilled but feminised employment sector. I propose instead to understand ‘refugeeness’ as a form of capital and argue that this capital provides access to employment in migrant support and advocacy organisations, while simultaneously trapping refugees in front-line work with high degrees of hidden, devalued labour and inadequate career mobility.
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