Ethnic minority professionals’ experiences with subtle discrimination in the workplace
基于对佛兰德地区土耳其或马格里布裔专业人士的26次深度访谈，揭示了工作场所微妙歧视的三个关键特征：模糊性、权力过程（如正常化、合法化）以及与社会结构的关联。
This qualitative study aims to explore the processes underlying subtle discrimination in the workplace. Based on 26 in-depth interviews with minority professionals of Turkish or Maghrebi descent in Flanders, we argue that subtle discrimination in the workplace is characterized by three important elements. First, subtle discrimination is ambiguous, and often involves disempowerment through apparent empowering behavior. Second, subtle discrimination is based on processes of power — normalization, legitimization of only the individual, legitimization as the Other and naturalization — which subtly, through everyday incidents, disempower minority individuals. Third, subtle discrimination in the workplace is linked to societal structures and discourses, which permeate the workplace through, and are reproduced by, workplace encounters.