Ungleichheitssemantiken im Wandel — Wahrnehmungen und Bewertungen von MigrantInnen in privaten Unternehmen

Based on theories of social inequalities and of ethnic boundaries we can conceptualise integration and disintegration of migrants and ethnic minorities not as given structures, but as interactive processes in different societal systems. Due to the specific context in every domain, specific semantics of inequality are used. In the article different semantics of inequality in the range of Austrian politics and economy are described. Based on qualitative interviews in Austrian enterprises, changes of semantics of inequality in one societal field are shown. It is stressed that in the Austrian economic domain in contrast to the domain of politics usually pragmatic semantics of inequality are used. They currently differentiate and so enhance the synchrony of different structural types of occupational integration.