Production of the Marginalised in the British Labor Market: A Study of the Intersections of Religious and Ethnic Identity

This study examines the extent to which it was possible for individuals belonging to different ethnic–religious groups in Britain to obtain managerial and professional jobs of standing over the 12–year period 2002–2013, to illustrate how differing levels of marginalisation in the UK labor market are strongly related to processes of racialization, with marginalization taking place through discrimination based on intersections of religious and ethnic identity. Our interest here lies in discerning, in the United Kingdom, discrimination differences based on "color" (especially black skin) and «culture» (especially Islamic identity) and showing how racial labeling has been carried out against different groups of Muslims and blacks.

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This study examines the extent to which it was possible for individuals belonging to different ethnic–religious groups in Britain to obtain managerial and professional jobs of standing over the 12–year period 2002–2013, to illustrate how differing levels of marginalisation in the UK labor market are strongly related to processes of racialization, with marginalization taking place through discrimination based on intersections of religious and ethnic identity. Our interest here lies in discerning, in the United Kingdom, discrimination differences based on "color" (especially black skin) and «culture» (especially Islamic identity) and showing how racial labeling has been carried out against different groups of Muslims and blacks.

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