CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Kisac, Burcu |
|---|---|
| Title | Rethinking Labor Market Participation through the Experiences of Turkish Immigrant Women in the Austrian Labor Market |
| Summary | This thesis investigates Turkish immigrant women’s labor market participation experiences in Vienna, Austria and it aims to explore the difficulties that Turkish immigrant women have to overcome to participate in the Austrian labor market and access qualified professions despite their citizenship, education, and language skills. The experiences of twenty women were analyzed using a qualitative interpretative approach. Based on the interviews, the difficulties that are experienced by Turkish immigrant women are diverse, and those difficulties impact immigrant women’s life to varying degrees. These difficulties are the negative attitude of teachers at schools towards immigrants, the automatic identity given to women regardless of their appearance (whether wearing a headscarf or not), lack of German language knowledge (especially for those who arrived under family reunification policies), stereotyping in workplaces, discrimination due to their names and adverse political and media discourses. The interviews also reveal that women of different generations go through unique challenges in accessing the education, linguistic, economic, and social life of the receiving country. The study concludes with a policy recommendation and a set of questions to be addressed in improving the labor market participation of Turkish immigrant women in Vienna, Austria. |
| Supervisor | Sata, Robert |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/kisac_burcu.pdf |
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