Familiar Strangers: Two ‘Turkish’ employees in a Danish SME

Heidrun Knorr

doi:10.4324/9781351121064-11

Familiar Strangers: Two ‘Turkish’ employees in a Danish SME

Heidrun Knorr

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This chapter highlights how ethnic difference and national culture are ‘naturalized’ through organizational practices which render two ethnic-minority Turkish employees ‘familiar strangers’. Furthermore, the chapter explains how ethnic identity intersects with other socio-cultural categories, such as educational background, family relations, and work attitude. Hence, the exclusion of two employees with Turkish backgrounds becomes a process of interacting practices of a power play, which is based on a variety of perceived intersecting differences of which ethnicity is but one.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cases in Critical Cross-Cultural Management : An Intersectional Approach to Culture
Editors	Jasmin Mahadevan, Henriett Primecz, Laurence Romani
Number of pages	12
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	Nov 2019
Pages	125-136
Chapter	10
ISBN (Print)	9780815359340, 9780815383482
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351121064
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351121064-11
Publication status	Published - Nov 2019

Keywords

Intersectionality and power relations
exclusion
Bourdieu
ethnic minorities
naturalization

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Familiar Strangers: Two ‘Turkish’ employees in a Danish SME. / Knorr, Heidrun.
Cases in Critical Cross-Cultural Management: An Intersectional Approach to Culture. ed. / Jasmin Mahadevan; Henriett Primecz; Laurence Romani. Routledge, 2019. p. 125-136.

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