Call for Papers:

Special Issue in Social Inclusion: Multilingual Challenges: Empirical Social Research in Migration Societies, Transnational Spaces, and International Contexts

Editors:Clara Holzinger (University of Vienna) and Anna-Katharina Draxl (University of Vienna)

Submission of Abstracts: 15-31 January 2025

For more information: www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/pages/view/nextissues

 

Recently published

  • Holzinger, C. & Draxl, A.-K. (2024). Ein rassismuskritischer Blick auf sprachbezogene Diskriminierung beim Zugang zu wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Leistungen und am Arbeitsmarkt. Momentum Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1-55.
  • Scheibelhofer, E., Holzinger, C., & Draxl, A.-K. (2023). Confronting Racialised Power Asymmetries in the Interview Setting: Positioning Strategies of Highly Qualified Migrants. Social Inclusion, 11(2). 
 
Media reports on the project
  • Understanding complex “deskilling” processes of migrants in Vienna. Challenges and solution strategies. Societal Impact Plattform, University of Vienna.
  • Holzinger, C. (Interviewpartnerin) & Hirschvogl, C. (Interviewpartnerin). Mehrsprachigkeit in der Sozialforschung - sprecht darüber! Podcast Methoden:Koffer, Folge 40.

 

Accepted papers

  • Holzinger, C. & Draxl, A.-K. (accepted/minor revisions): “I don’t attribute that to the fact that I’m a foreigner”—Female CEE migrants in Austria and their perspectives on deskilling experiences. In: Barwick-Gross/Börner/Eigmüller (Eds.): Labor market related discrimination of women and migrants, Zeitschrift für Politik.
  • Holzinger, E., Scheibelhofer, E. & Draxl, A.-K. (accepted): Wenn grenzüberschreitende Mobilität und Sprachkenntnisse den Zugang zu sozialer Sicherheit erschweren: Fallstudien aus Österreich. In: Ratzmann/Borelli/Kurt (Eds.): Die Verknüpfung von Migrationskontrolle und Sozialpolitik in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Transcript.

 

For further work please visit the research team's website!

 

Lecture series

Sociological talks, winter term 2023/24
Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna
lecture series in German language
coordination: Clara Holzinger, Anna-Katharina Draxl, Elisabeth Scheibelhofer

 

Presentations within the project

  • 20 Sept 2024. C. Holzinger, H. Pasch, S. Rennert: Mehrsprachigkeit in der qualitativen Sozialforschung: Eine Lehrkooperation für Soziologie und Translationswissenschaft. TRANSLATA V: Schnittstellen der Translation, Innsbruck.
  • 19 Sept 2024. C. Holzinger: Diskriminierungserfahrungen von EU-Bürger:innen aus Osteuropa am Arbeitsmarkt in Wien. 8th Conference on Migration Research in Austria : Global inequalities, (Im)Mobilities and Migration Societies: Post-Migrant Perspectives, Innsbruck.
  • Aug 2024. C. Holzinger: „These Tiny Differences“. Subtle Forms Of Discrimination Experienced By Highly Skilled CEE Migrants in Vienna. 16th ESA (European Sociological Association) Conference 2024: Tension, Trust, and Transformation, Porto, Portugal.
  • 2 May 2024. C. Holzinger: Addressing societal multilingualism in street-level bureaucracies. Linguistic Diversity in Professional Settings: Needs, Policies and Practices, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
  • 2 May 2024. A.-K. Draxl: How highly qualified EU-migrants from CEE countries experience the importance of language(s) in professional settings in Vienna. Linguistic Diversity in Professional Settings: Needs, Policies and Practices, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
  • 05 July 2023. A.-K. Draxl & C. Holzinger: “It is important to know the language” – Die Bedeutung von Sprache(n) am österreichischen Arbeitsmarkt aus der Perspektive von hochqualifizierten EU-Migrant:innen. Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, WU Wien.
  • 30 Mar 2023. E. Scheibelhofer: Fractured biographies of highly skilled European migrants – configurations and positionalities in times of multi-layered crises: Reflections on an ongoing interpretative temporal analysis. ESA RN35 “Sociology of Migration” Midterm Conference, Naples, Italy.
  • 18 Mar 2023. C. Holzinger & A.-K. Draxl: “All the meetings were held in German. Not the bigger ones... but the small ones for sure” - Erlebte (deutsch)sprachliche Anforderungen im Arbeitsalltag. ÖDaF-Jahrstagung 2023, Vienna, Austria.
  • 28 Sept 2022. C. Holzinger & A.-K. Draxl: „das rechne ich nicht dem zu, dass ich Ausländerin bin“ – Dequalifizierungserfahrungen von hochqualifizierten EU-Migrant*innen in Wien. 41. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Bielefeld, Germany.
  • 20 Sept 2022. E. Scheibelhofer & C. Holzinger: “there are also these different levels for this discrimination” – Grappling with identifying experiences of discrimination among highly qualified EU-migrants. CESSMIR Conference, Ghent, Belgium.
  • 29 Jun 2022. C. Holzinger & A.-K. Draxl: Changing expectations and strategies in regard to deskilling and reskilling. Investigating the labour market integration of highly educated EU migrants from new member states in Vienna. 19th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Oslo, Norway.