“Nationalisms and the Workplace”
Diversity management approaches often struggle in conceptualizing employees’ diverse origins and descents as a relevant dimension of diversity. Usually origin and descent are adumbrated under the ambiguous constructs of race or ethnicity, and the concept of racism is utilized to explain origin-based mechanisms of exclusion. In doing so scant attention is paid to employees’ nationality, a contingent construct massively loaded with stereotypes that influence everyday workplace-situations, especially for those employees who are not perceived as “domestic” in terms of their nationality in different national settings. Taking into account that the dimensions of ethnicity, race, nationality, and also religion are not clear-cut phenomena, and very often interact within individuals and workplace situations they are confronted with, this stream wants to put an emphasis on nationality and nationalisms.