Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Management Wrocław University of Science and Technology Wroclaw Poland
2. Department of HR & Organization EM Normandie Business School Métis Lab Dublin Ireland
3. Faculty of Economics and Management Opole University of Technology Opole Poland
4. Brunel Business School Brunel University London Uxbridge UK
Abstract
Abstract185,000 refugees from Ukraine have started working in Poland since the Russian war began. Drawing on Bourdieusian concepts of capitals, misrecognition, habitus, and the field, the paper theorizes the subjective and objective terms of inclusion across intersectional interplay of motherhood, ethnicity, and refugee status. In particular, we explore how intersectional marginalized identities of individuals shape their negotiation power over terms of their labor market inclusion. Using qualitative interview data from 10 Ukrainian working mothers in Poland who became refugees following the Russian war in Ukraine in 2022, we demonstrate that misrecognition leads to uneven relations of power curtailing working refugee mothers' agency to negotiate the terms of their inclusion.