Multiple Discrimination in a Multicultural Europe: Achieving Labour Market Equality Through New Governance

Current Legal Problems, Vol. 61, 2009

23 Pages Posted: 28 Oct 2010

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Diamond Ashiagbor

University of London - Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; University of Kent, Kent Law School

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Abstract

This paper interrogates the extent to which, within the European Union, ‘hybrid’ approaches to combating labour market discrimination – combining ‘old governance’ regulatory mechanisms (such as the Race Directive) and alternatives to hard law, such as gender mainstreaming and diversity management – have the potential to provide a stronger framework for internalizing equality values. Before turning to the interaction between new and old governance within the EU anti-discrimination regime, the paper examines a number of background issues: the labour market situation of ethnic minority women in the European Union; the differing understandings of race and ethnicity across the various EU Member States; Member States’ divergent approaches to the management of minority populations and competing understandings of diversity. A preliminary conclusion is that the possibility of a hybrid approach at EU level, drawing on for instance both the Race Directive and mainstreaming, is constrained by competing national paradigms in discourses around race and multiculturalism, and the resultant differences in approach to the use of ‘race’ as a valid analytical category.

Keywords: European Union, labor law, equality law, intersectionality

JEL Classification: Labor law

Suggested Citation

Ashiagbor, Diamond and Ashiagbor, Diamond, Multiple Discrimination in a Multicultural Europe: Achieving Labour Market Equality Through New Governance. Current Legal Problems, Vol. 61, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1697847

Diamond Ashiagbor (Contact Author)

University of Kent, Kent Law School ( email )

Eliot College
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NS
United Kingdom

University of London - Institute of Advanced Legal Studies ( email )

Charles Clore House
17 Russell Square
London, WC1B 5DR
United Kingdom

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