Migrants, Ethnic Minorities and the Labour Market

FRANK BOVENKERK Professor of Criminology, Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Sciences, University of Utrecht LORENZO CACHA-N Professor of Sociology, University of Madrid GIOVANNA CAMPANI Department of Science, Universita degli Studi di Firenze FRANCESCO CARCHEDI President of PARSEC (Research and Social Intervention), Rome VAeRONIQUE DE RUDDER CNRS Researcher to URMIS (Unite de Recherche: Migrations et Societe) MITZI GRAS Researcher, Municipal Health Service, Amsterdam EDGAR HASSAN Researcher, Open University, Milton Keynes WUOKKO KNOCKE Senior Researcher, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm ALBERT MARTENS Professor in Sociology of Industrial Relations, University of Leuven FRANCESCA POGLIA MILETI Institute of Sociology, University of Neuchatel TAREQ QURESHI Policy Officer, Centre for Policy of Ageing, London NORA RA THZEL Researcher, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Bremen MARITTA SOININEN Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Stockholm MERYSE TRIPIER Professor of Sociology, University of Paris 7, Denis Diderot FRANCOIS VOURC'H Sociologist and CNRS Researcher attached to URMIS, Universites Paris 7 and Paris 8

This text examines racial and ethnic discrimination in the labour markets and workplaces of western Europe. Contributors set out the experience and implications of this exclusion for two main groups: the established second and third generations of post war migrant descent, and the "new" migrants.This book examines racial and ethnic discrimination in the labour markets and workplaces of western Europe. Scholars from ten different countries set out the experience and implications of this exclusion for two main groups: the more established second and third generations of postwar migrant descent, and the 'new' migrants, including seasonal and undocumented workers and refugees, who are vulnerable to extreme exploitation and unregulated working environments. The book finishes by addressing the implications of these issues for trade unions and employers in Europe.