Article in Nordic Journal of Migration Research 6/2 2016
Aadne Aasland and I have mapped the interrelationships between workplace organization, employment conditions and contentment and well-being at work, in the heterogeneous groups of hotel workers in the hotel sector in and around the Norwegian capital. Our analysis has revealed a moderately segmented labour market, where immigrant status predicts the kind of positions workers have in the hotel, as well as how they experience their working conditions and job permanence. However, instead of an immigrant/non-immigrant dichotomy, our analysis has shown significant differences among immigrant groups in how they experience their hotel jobs. Differences among subgroups of immigrants are as large as, or larger than, those between immigrants and native Norwegian hotel workers. The labour market was found to work in different ways depending on the ethnic origin of the worker: for some, it meant dead-end jobs; for other groups, the restaurant sector served as a stepping stone to other parts of the labour market. The article is open access and can be accessed here