Recently published

• Scheibelhofer, E., Holzinger, C., & Draxl, A. (2023). Confronting Racialised Power Asymmetries in the Interview Setting: Positioning Strategies of Highly Qualified Migrants. Social Inclusion, 11(2). doi:https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i2.6468

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

Lecture series

• "Forschen in und mit vielen Sprachen? Sozialforschung in Migrationsgesellschaften, transnationalen Räumen und internationalen Kontexten"

Presentations within the project

• 08 Sept 2023. C. Holzinger, E. Scheibelhofer & A.-K. Draxl: “It’s not a must always but it’s a big plus” – How highly qualified migrants from CEE-countries experience the importance of German language on the Austrian labour market. AMLI 2023 Conference, Zurich.

• 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.

• 15 May 2023. A.-K. Draxl & C. Holzinger: Dolmetschen in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung (Interpreting in Social Science Research). ReTrans Lecture Series: Communication with refugees in flight and arrival situations. Zentrum für Translationswissenschaft, Universität Wien.
  • Blog post by students of translation studies about the presentation

• 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.