Critical race theory and inequality in the labour market : racial stratification in Ireland / Joseph Ebun.

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Introduction -- Race: the unmarked marker in racialised hierarchial social systems -- Migration, whiteness and Irish racism -- Evidence of racial stratification in Ireland: comparing the labour market outcomes of Spanish, Polish and Nigerian migrants -- A framework for exposing racial stratification: theory and methodology -- Knowing your place: racial stratification as a 'default' starting position -- Intersecting stratifiers: how migrants change their place on the labour supply chain -- Minority agency, experiences and reconstructed identities: how migrants negotiate racially stratifying systems -- Policing the racial order through the group favouritism continuum -- Conclusion: towards a critical race theory of the labour market.

This book presents racial stratification as the underlying system that accounts for the differential in outcomes in the labour market. It employs critical race theory to discuss the operation, research, maintenance and impact of racial stratification.