Bridging the state and market logics of refugee labour market inclusion – a comparative study on the inclusion activities of German professional chambers
- Due to their high numbers, refugees’ labour market inclusion has become an important topic for Germany in recent years. Because of a lack of research on meso-level actors’ influences on labour market inclusion and the transcendent role of organizations in modern societies, the article focuses on the German professional chambers’ role in the process of refugee inclusion. The study shows that professional chambers are intermediaries between economic actors, the government and refugees, which all follow their own logics and ideas of labour market inclusion (the state, the market and the community logic). The measures taken by professional chambers mainly reflect a governmental logic (to reduce refugee unemployment) combined with a market logic (to provide human resources to economic actors). A community logic (altruism) only comes into play as a rather unintended consequence of measures addressing the other two logics. The measures of two types of professional chambers are compared. Close similarities between them reveal that theDue to their high numbers, refugees’ labour market inclusion has become an important topic for Germany in recent years. Because of a lack of research on meso-level actors’ influences on labour market inclusion and the transcendent role of organizations in modern societies, the article focuses on the German professional chambers’ role in the process of refugee inclusion. The study shows that professional chambers are intermediaries between economic actors, the government and refugees, which all follow their own logics and ideas of labour market inclusion (the state, the market and the community logic). The measures taken by professional chambers mainly reflect a governmental logic (to reduce refugee unemployment) combined with a market logic (to provide human resources to economic actors). A community logic (altruism) only comes into play as a rather unintended consequence of measures addressing the other two logics. The measures of two types of professional chambers are compared. Close similarities between them reveal that the organization type is of theoretical relevance to explain the type of measures organizations opt for.…
Author: | Martina Maletzky de GarcíaORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021100821553693088701 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00232-6 |
Parent Title (English): | Comparative Migration Studies |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2021 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/11/04 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/11/04 |
Publishing Institution: | Universität Passau |
Release Date: | 2023/03/20 |
Article Number: | 25 |
Page Number: | 20 Seiten |
Source: | Comparative Migration Studies 9, 25 (2021) |
Institutes: | Philosophische Fakultät |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
Funding Acknowledgement: | Gefördert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Universitätsbibliothek Passau. |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |