Stasio Lab

European University Institute

Centro (IT) (ITI) · Italy

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ERC Starting Grant · 2021

What Makes People Targets: A Multi-Actor Study of How Ethnic Discrimination is Perceived, Tackled and Avoided

Despite progressive anti-discrimination legislation and the popularity of diversity policies touted as the key to a culturally diverse workplace, discrimination of ethnic minorities in the labor market is remarkably persistent and pervasive. TARGETS integrates literature from sociology, social psychology, organization and sociolegal studies into a novel multi-actor and dynamic theoretical framework to examine what makes people targets of ethnic discrimination. Both conceptually and empirically, the key contribution of our approach is that we define and operationalize discrimination claims as, inherently, relational. We test the core proposition that relational claims-making is the key…

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