Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Volume 41 Issue 7

Guest editorial: Crossing boundaries and strengthening social connections through improved professional integration of immigrants

Tania Saba, Joana Vassilopoulou, Eddy Ng, Mustafa Ozbilgin

Gender equality in the workplace in Quebec: strategic priority for employers or partial response to institutional pressures?

Émilie Genin, Mélanie Laroche, Guénolé Marchadour

This paper examines the challenges posed for employers by gender equality in the workplace, in a seemingly favourable institutional context (the province of Quebec, Canada), and…

Bridging social boundaries and building social connectedness: Through youth development programs

Keith Trevor Thomas

The youth leadership development program is an opportunity to establish best practices for the development of youth and of the wider community. Based on underpinning research…

From institutionalized othering to disruptive collaboration: A postcolonial analysis of the police force in Greenland

Lotte Holck, Sara Louise Muhr

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the construction and everyday maintenance of racialized psychological borders in the Greenlandic Police Force reproduce a…

Diversity as job quality: toward the inclusion of trade unions in public procurement of social services

Orly Benjamin

When union representatives are included in government procurement procedures for contracting-out of social welfare services, organizational diversity is enhanced if the job…

Competing diversity indices and attitudes toward cultural pluralism in Europe

Ádám Németh, Dávid Sümeghy, András Trócsányi, Gábor Pirisi

The purpose of this analysis is to collect and classify the most important diversity indices, outline the logical connections between them and answer the following question: How…

Migrants with insecure legal status and access to work: the role of ethnic solidarity networks

Janroj Yilmaz Keles, Eugenia Markova, Rebwar Fatah

Building upon previous studies on the factors shaping undocumented migrants’ experiences on the host labour markets, the purpose of this paper is to expand the theoretical…

Work experiences of qualified immigrants: a review of theoretical progress

Ali Dehghanpour Farashah, Tomas Blomquist

Qualified immigrants (QIs) and their work experiences have been studied using a wide variety of theoretical approaches with divergent characteristics. This paper reviews…

Immigrant perceptions of integration in the Canadian workplace

Secil E. Ertorer, Jennifer Long, Melissa Fellin, Victoria M. Esses

This paper explores integration experiences of immigrants in the Canadian workplace from the perspective of immigrants themselves, focusing on cultural capital and cultural…

Gender stereotypes: persistence and challenges

Gladys Merma-Molina, María Alejandra Ávalos-Ramos, María Ángeles Martínez Ruiz

The aims of this study are to identify and analyse prevalent gender roles and the persistence of sexist stereotypes among teachers in training in Spain, to determine the reasons…