@article{1450160,
      recid = {1450160},
      author = {Romens, Anne-Iris,},
      title = {Deconstructing essentialism : migrant women in stratified  labour markets /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 150 pages) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book proposes an original approach to analyse the  social and professional trajectories of migrant women with  tertiary education. It focuses on the role of essentialism  in stratifying labour markets based on gender, class and  racialisation, and in limiting migrant women's employment  opportunities. Based on multi-sited fieldwork conducted in  France and Italy, the book highlights how essentialism  influences the assessment of working capacities, stressing  that skills are socially constructed and valued depending  on who embodies them. It also emphasises that migrant women  and labour market gatekeepers are not only passively  accepting essentialism, but some are also resisting and  eventually challenging this process. Deconstructing  essentialism enables us to better understand the mechanisms  that produce stratifications and aids in designing paths  towards more equal access to employment. Anne-Iris Romens  is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology  and Social Research of the University of Milan-Bicocca,  Italy. Her research interests regard migration, care, and  labour processes which she analyses from an intersectional  perspective.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1450160},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14399-1},
}