Organizing Immigrants’ Integration: Practices and Consequences in Labor Markets and Societies

This collection of field studies offers novel insights into the issues of migration and integration of immigrants. The focus of the chapters is on actions, processes, and complexity of organising practices, in contrast to more policy-oriented works. The contributors address vital questions: How is the labour market integration of refugees and other immigrants being organised in practice? What ideas of integration give rise to, and are promoted by contemporary integration initiatives? And what are the effects of these integration initiatives - on immigrants’ lives, and on their labour market integration in terms of diversity, gender, and power relations?
With contributions highlighting the importance of coordination and collaboration for the successful organising of integration, this book should be of interest to researchers and advanced students from the fields of management and organisation studies, public administration and management, migration and integration studies, sociology, cultural studies and science and technology studies. It should also interest professionals and policymakers working with integration who face the challenges described here in their daily work.

Andreas Diedrich is Associate Professor of Management and Organization Studies at the Dept. of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Barbara Czarniawska is a Senior Professor at GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.