Dimitria Groutsis
Biographic Data
| ID | 199776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitria Groutsis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitria |
| FAMILY NAME | Groutsis |
| SIGNATURE | GROUTSIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4890-8216 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Conceptualizing class in workplace diversity: A narrative review
How is class discussed in workplace diversity research? Class has long been central to social studies of inequality, yet its meaning remains fragmented and contested across sociology, political economy, psychology and organization studies. This creates a challenge for workplace diversity scholarship: although class is increasingly treated as an important dimension of diversity, it is often unclear whether class is being understood as an individua…
Whose Justice? A Turn to Relational Equality from the Experiences of Ethno-Racially Marginalised Women in Australian Workplaces
This paper examines how ethno-racially marginalised women in Australian workplaces continue to be constrained by enduring organisational norms that privilege whiteness, masculinity, and Western/Anglo-cultural modes of participation. Further, we show how mainstream diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives reproduce exclusion and marginalisation in unintended and new ways by misrecognising or sidelining intersectional experiences. Through…
A multi-layered approach to accounting for ethno-racial diversity: An Australian study
This paper makes a novel contribution to organisational scholarship and practice by addressing the absence of an operationally useful approach to ethno-racial diversity that adequately accounts for the contested, context-dependent, and power-laden nature of ethnicity and race. Informed by the complexities surrounding the objective/subjective binary to measuring ethno-racial diversity, we develop a multilayered conceptual framework, incorporating …
The Refugee Integration Industry: Stakeholder Power, Market Logic, and the (De)Humanisation of Refugee Labour
This paper theorises the refugee integration industry by examining how institutional configurations and stakeholder arrangements shape labour market integration outcomes for refugees in Germany and Turkey. Drawing on Spender's theory of industrial recipes, we conceptualise the integration industry as a network of public, private and third‐sector actors governed by competing logics of humanitarianism and market efficiency. Through a comparative ca…
Spatial and transformative dimensions of recent Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan refugee family settlement in Australia
Temporary Migrants as Dehumanised 'Other' in the Time of Covid-19: We're All in This Together
Temporary migrants comprise a substantial component of the Australian workforce. Evidence of the tensions and contradictions in Australia's reliance on temporary migrant workers was spotlighted during the COVID-19 global health crisis, particularly with regards to the actions and responsibilities of key players in the attraction, recruitment, deployment and ultimately abandonment of these workers. In this article, we interrogate the public framin…
Populism as New Wine in Old Bottles in the Context of Germany: ‘Symbolic Violence’ as Collective Habitus That Devalues the Human Capital of Turks
Populism in Germany is not a new phenomenon. For a long time, the alleged integration problems of Turkish workers in Germany have been at the center of the dominant discourse and academic studies. This paper demonstrates how ‘symbolic violence’ as collective habitus frames the human capital of Turks as deficient, a phenomenon which has prevailed even prior to the recent populist movements. Drawing on a company case study, interviews, and observat…
Regulating migrant worker temporariness in Australia: The Role of Immigration, Employment and Post-Arrival Support Policies
This article examines how the interaction of migrant agency and policy arrangements influence different forms of regulated temporariness in Australia’s temporary migration regime. It analyses regulated temporariness under the temporary skilled visa, the Seasonal Workers Program, working holidaymaker visa and international student visa schemes. The findings demonstrate that migrant temporariness is a form of insecurity driven not only by policies …
Gender, bodies and identities in organization: Postcolonial critiques
Critical perspectives on embodiment in organizations acknowledges that the body is a site, object and subject of the labor force, crossing and spanning the material, social, cultural, and natural world (Dale, 2005; Monaghan, 2002; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Binary distinctions between body and mind are challenged (Pullen & Knights, 2007), placing the lived experience as locus of analysis (Kringen & Novich, 2018; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Impor…
The 'New' Migration for Work Phenomenon: The Pursuit of Emancipation and Recognition in the Context of Work
This article examines the 'new' migration for work phenomenon gripping Southern Europe since the Global Financial Crisis struck in 2008, by focusing on the case of skilled Greeks migrating to Germany for work purposes. In applying Honneth's concept of emancipation to the domain of work, the article frames emancipation as a phenomenon which emerges from an individual's search for meaningful work and as a form of resistance to deteriorating institu…
Women, Work and Migration: Nursing in Australia
This book looks at the migration and work experiences of six women who have migrated to Australia from China; Zimbabwe; South Korea; the United Kingdom; India and the Philippines. It sets their journeys out into three distinct periods of migration, including the first period of their lives when they reflect on their experiences growing up with their immediate families and the factors that encouraged them to gravitate towards a nursing career. The…
Intermediaries and destination reputations: Explaining Flows of Skilled Migration
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
From India to Canada: An Autoethnographic Account of an International Student's Decision to Settle as a Self-Initiated Expatriate
International students can be a source of skilled workers for many industrialized countries with an aging population. However, it is unclear if international students would stay after completing their studies, given booming economies in their home countries. The present paper explores the decision processes international students make when contemplating whether to stay or return home after completing their studies. The paper is based on an autoet…
Employer-sponsored temporary labour migration schemes in Australia, Canada and Sweden: Enhancing Efficiency, Compromising Fairness
For governments concerned with enhancing labour market efficiency, employer-sponsored temporary labour migration schemes have become increasingly popular. However, the equity implications of these arrangements, which constrain the mobility of migrant workers, have largely been ignored. This paper assesses the factors affecting the vulnerability of employer-sponsored migrant workers and addresses the question of whether these schemes comply with e…
Global nursing and the lived experience of migration intermediaries
Discussion of skilled migration often focuses on skill shortages and global labour market trends, with little attention directed to the individual experiences of the migrants themselves. 'Divina' is a migrant nurse who left her home country of the Philippines to gain work in Australia. In the process of this migration, Divina was drawn into a complex web of co-ethnic relationships with migration intermediaries that shaped much of her experiences …
Commercial migration intermediaries and the segmentation of skilled migrant employment
Like all migration, skilled migration depends on intermediary operators providing services that assist the mobility, labour market entry and integration of migrant workers. By re-engaging with the literature on skilled migration, the authors highlight the importance of new theorizing and empirical investigations into the labour market implications of intermediary activities, which at present remain poorly understood. Most particularly, this artic…
Reporting on the gender and diversity, standing working group at the European group of organizational studies colloquium
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Gender and Diversity Stream, Standing Working Group (SWG) at the recent European Group of Organisational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, which was hosted in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The paper provides an overview of the SWG before turning to the scope of the papers and a brief synopsis of three of the best papers within the context of the stream. Design/methodology/approach – Appr…
Transformations in Network Governance: The Case of Migration Intermediaries
Market liberalisation has fundamentally changed state interventions in the supply of services and supportive infrastructure across a range of public services. While this trend has been relatively well documented, there has been a dearth of research into the changing nature of state interventions in migration and mobility. Indeed, the increasing presence of migration intermediaries to service the many and varied needs of migrant workers, particula…
Tracking the Career Decisions and Experience of Migrant Elites: The case of South African-Trained Medical Professionals in the Australian Labour Market
Our paper analyses and explains the migration decision and labour market experience of migrant elites, by drawing on the case of South African-trained doctors in Australia. In doing so, we expand on the limited conceptualisation of skilled migration to which we offer a different interpretation by drawing on a multi-scale and integrated model of analysis tracing the experience of this group over a 60-year period. The research is informed by a samp…
Recruiting migrant nurses to fill the gaps: The contribution of migrant women in the nursing care sector in Greece
Space for female foreign‐trained non‐Greek nationals in the Greek labour market
This research examines the process of labour market entry for foreign‐trained non‐Greek national women in Greece as a means by which to understand the key factors shaping entry portals. In doing so, the paper assesses the influence of pre‐migration skills, qualifications and vocational experience (human capital); and the role played by one’s local employment knowledge and access to and connection with social networks (social capital). The researc…
Geography and credentialism: The assessment and accreditation of overseas-trained doctors
The traditional stronghold of medical dominance, and thus the construction of the medical labour market, has been challenged by a number of contemporary trends. While the social, economic and cultural trends driving this shift have been explored, the significance of geography as a key determinant in the construction of the medical labour market has yet to be addressed in detail. This paper examines how geographical arrangements have shaped the cr…
Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World
Review(s) of: Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World by Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2002. pp. xvi + 433. US $70.00 cloth. Review(s) of: Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialised Women in Canadian History by Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta, and Frances Swyripa, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2004. pp. xi + 418. US $29.95 paper
Intermediaries and destination reputations: Explaining Flows of Skilled Migration
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Commercial migration intermediaries and the segmentation of skilled migrant employment
Like all migration, skilled migration depends on intermediary operators providing services that assist the mobility, labour market entry and integration of migrant workers. By re-engaging with the literature on skilled migration, the authors highlight the importance of new theorizing and empirical investigations into the labour market implications of intermediary activities, which at present remain poorly understood. Most particularly, this artic…
Transformations in Network Governance: The Case of Migration Intermediaries
Market liberalisation has fundamentally changed state interventions in the supply of services and supportive infrastructure across a range of public services. While this trend has been relatively well documented, there has been a dearth of research into the changing nature of state interventions in migration and mobility. Indeed, the increasing presence of migration intermediaries to service the many and varied needs of migrant workers, particula…
Regulating migrant worker temporariness in Australia: The Role of Immigration, Employment and Post-Arrival Support Policies
This article examines how the interaction of migrant agency and policy arrangements influence different forms of regulated temporariness in Australia’s temporary migration regime. It analyses regulated temporariness under the temporary skilled visa, the Seasonal Workers Program, working holidaymaker visa and international student visa schemes. The findings demonstrate that migrant temporariness is a form of insecurity driven not only by policies …
The 'New' Migration for Work Phenomenon: The Pursuit of Emancipation and Recognition in the Context of Work
This article examines the 'new' migration for work phenomenon gripping Southern Europe since the Global Financial Crisis struck in 2008, by focusing on the case of skilled Greeks migrating to Germany for work purposes. In applying Honneth's concept of emancipation to the domain of work, the article frames emancipation as a phenomenon which emerges from an individual's search for meaningful work and as a form of resistance to deteriorating institu…
Employer-sponsored temporary labour migration schemes in Australia, Canada and Sweden: Enhancing Efficiency, Compromising Fairness
For governments concerned with enhancing labour market efficiency, employer-sponsored temporary labour migration schemes have become increasingly popular. However, the equity implications of these arrangements, which constrain the mobility of migrant workers, have largely been ignored. This paper assesses the factors affecting the vulnerability of employer-sponsored migrant workers and addresses the question of whether these schemes comply with e…
Populism as New Wine in Old Bottles in the Context of Germany: ‘Symbolic Violence’ as Collective Habitus That Devalues the Human Capital of Turks
Populism in Germany is not a new phenomenon. For a long time, the alleged integration problems of Turkish workers in Germany have been at the center of the dominant discourse and academic studies. This paper demonstrates how ‘symbolic violence’ as collective habitus frames the human capital of Turks as deficient, a phenomenon which has prevailed even prior to the recent populist movements. Drawing on a company case study, interviews, and observat…
Gender, bodies and identities in organization: Postcolonial critiques
Critical perspectives on embodiment in organizations acknowledges that the body is a site, object and subject of the labor force, crossing and spanning the material, social, cultural, and natural world (Dale, 2005; Monaghan, 2002; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Binary distinctions between body and mind are challenged (Pullen & Knights, 2007), placing the lived experience as locus of analysis (Kringen & Novich, 2018; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Impor…
Temporary Migrants as Dehumanised 'Other' in the Time of Covid-19: We're All in This Together
Temporary migrants comprise a substantial component of the Australian workforce. Evidence of the tensions and contradictions in Australia's reliance on temporary migrant workers was spotlighted during the COVID-19 global health crisis, particularly with regards to the actions and responsibilities of key players in the attraction, recruitment, deployment and ultimately abandonment of these workers. In this article, we interrogate the public framin…
From India to Canada: An Autoethnographic Account of an International Student's Decision to Settle as a Self-Initiated Expatriate
International students can be a source of skilled workers for many industrialized countries with an aging population. However, it is unclear if international students would stay after completing their studies, given booming economies in their home countries. The present paper explores the decision processes international students make when contemplating whether to stay or return home after completing their studies. The paper is based on an autoet…
Global nursing and the lived experience of migration intermediaries
Discussion of skilled migration often focuses on skill shortages and global labour market trends, with little attention directed to the individual experiences of the migrants themselves. 'Divina' is a migrant nurse who left her home country of the Philippines to gain work in Australia. In the process of this migration, Divina was drawn into a complex web of co-ethnic relationships with migration intermediaries that shaped much of her experiences …
Tracking the Career Decisions and Experience of Migrant Elites: The case of South African-Trained Medical Professionals in the Australian Labour Market
Our paper analyses and explains the migration decision and labour market experience of migrant elites, by drawing on the case of South African-trained doctors in Australia. In doing so, we expand on the limited conceptualisation of skilled migration to which we offer a different interpretation by drawing on a multi-scale and integrated model of analysis tracing the experience of this group over a 60-year period. The research is informed by a samp…
Geography and credentialism: The assessment and accreditation of overseas-trained doctors
The traditional stronghold of medical dominance, and thus the construction of the medical labour market, has been challenged by a number of contemporary trends. While the social, economic and cultural trends driving this shift have been explored, the significance of geography as a key determinant in the construction of the medical labour market has yet to be addressed in detail. This paper examines how geographical arrangements have shaped the cr…
Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World
Review(s) of: Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World by Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2002. pp. xvi + 433. US $70.00 cloth. Review(s) of: Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialised Women in Canadian History by Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta, and Frances Swyripa, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2004. pp. xi + 418. US $29.95 paper
Geography and credentialism: The assessment and accreditation of overseas-trained doctors
The traditional stronghold of medical dominance, and thus the construction of the medical labour market, has been challenged by a number of contemporary trends. While the social, economic and cultural trends driving this shift have been explored, the significance of geography as a key determinant in the construction of the medical labour market has yet to be addressed in detail. This paper examines how geographical arrangements have shaped the cr…
Space for female foreign‐trained non‐Greek nationals in the Greek labour market
This research examines the process of labour market entry for foreign‐trained non‐Greek national women in Greece as a means by which to understand the key factors shaping entry portals. In doing so, the paper assesses the influence of pre‐migration skills, qualifications and vocational experience (human capital); and the role played by one’s local employment knowledge and access to and connection with social networks (social capital). The researc…
Recruiting migrant nurses to fill the gaps: The contribution of migrant women in the nursing care sector in Greece
Tracking the Career Decisions and Experience of Migrant Elites: The case of South African-Trained Medical Professionals in the Australian Labour Market
Our paper analyses and explains the migration decision and labour market experience of migrant elites, by drawing on the case of South African-trained doctors in Australia. In doing so, we expand on the limited conceptualisation of skilled migration to which we offer a different interpretation by drawing on a multi-scale and integrated model of analysis tracing the experience of this group over a 60-year period. The research is informed by a samp…
Reporting on the gender and diversity, standing working group at the European group of organizational studies colloquium
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Gender and Diversity Stream, Standing Working Group (SWG) at the recent European Group of Organisational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, which was hosted in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The paper provides an overview of the SWG before turning to the scope of the papers and a brief synopsis of three of the best papers within the context of the stream. Design/methodology/approach – Appr…
Transformations in Network Governance: The Case of Migration Intermediaries
Market liberalisation has fundamentally changed state interventions in the supply of services and supportive infrastructure across a range of public services. While this trend has been relatively well documented, there has been a dearth of research into the changing nature of state interventions in migration and mobility. Indeed, the increasing presence of migration intermediaries to service the many and varied needs of migrant workers, particula…
Commercial migration intermediaries and the segmentation of skilled migrant employment
Like all migration, skilled migration depends on intermediary operators providing services that assist the mobility, labour market entry and integration of migrant workers. By re-engaging with the literature on skilled migration, the authors highlight the importance of new theorizing and empirical investigations into the labour market implications of intermediary activities, which at present remain poorly understood. Most particularly, this artic…
Employer-sponsored temporary labour migration schemes in Australia, Canada and Sweden: Enhancing Efficiency, Compromising Fairness
For governments concerned with enhancing labour market efficiency, employer-sponsored temporary labour migration schemes have become increasingly popular. However, the equity implications of these arrangements, which constrain the mobility of migrant workers, have largely been ignored. This paper assesses the factors affecting the vulnerability of employer-sponsored migrant workers and addresses the question of whether these schemes comply with e…
Global nursing and the lived experience of migration intermediaries
Discussion of skilled migration often focuses on skill shortages and global labour market trends, with little attention directed to the individual experiences of the migrants themselves. 'Divina' is a migrant nurse who left her home country of the Philippines to gain work in Australia. In the process of this migration, Divina was drawn into a complex web of co-ethnic relationships with migration intermediaries that shaped much of her experiences …
Intermediaries and destination reputations: Explaining Flows of Skilled Migration
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
From India to Canada: An Autoethnographic Account of an International Student's Decision to Settle as a Self-Initiated Expatriate
International students can be a source of skilled workers for many industrialized countries with an aging population. However, it is unclear if international students would stay after completing their studies, given booming economies in their home countries. The present paper explores the decision processes international students make when contemplating whether to stay or return home after completing their studies. The paper is based on an autoet…
Women, Work and Migration: Nursing in Australia
This book looks at the migration and work experiences of six women who have migrated to Australia from China; Zimbabwe; South Korea; the United Kingdom; India and the Philippines. It sets their journeys out into three distinct periods of migration, including the first period of their lives when they reflect on their experiences growing up with their immediate families and the factors that encouraged them to gravitate towards a nursing career. The…
The 'New' Migration for Work Phenomenon: The Pursuit of Emancipation and Recognition in the Context of Work
This article examines the 'new' migration for work phenomenon gripping Southern Europe since the Global Financial Crisis struck in 2008, by focusing on the case of skilled Greeks migrating to Germany for work purposes. In applying Honneth's concept of emancipation to the domain of work, the article frames emancipation as a phenomenon which emerges from an individual's search for meaningful work and as a form of resistance to deteriorating institu…
Gender, bodies and identities in organization: Postcolonial critiques
Critical perspectives on embodiment in organizations acknowledges that the body is a site, object and subject of the labor force, crossing and spanning the material, social, cultural, and natural world (Dale, 2005; Monaghan, 2002; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Binary distinctions between body and mind are challenged (Pullen & Knights, 2007), placing the lived experience as locus of analysis (Kringen & Novich, 2018; Williams & Bendelow, 1998). Impor…
Populism as New Wine in Old Bottles in the Context of Germany: ‘Symbolic Violence’ as Collective Habitus That Devalues the Human Capital of Turks
Populism in Germany is not a new phenomenon. For a long time, the alleged integration problems of Turkish workers in Germany have been at the center of the dominant discourse and academic studies. This paper demonstrates how ‘symbolic violence’ as collective habitus frames the human capital of Turks as deficient, a phenomenon which has prevailed even prior to the recent populist movements. Drawing on a company case study, interviews, and observat…
Regulating migrant worker temporariness in Australia: The Role of Immigration, Employment and Post-Arrival Support Policies
This article examines how the interaction of migrant agency and policy arrangements influence different forms of regulated temporariness in Australia’s temporary migration regime. It analyses regulated temporariness under the temporary skilled visa, the Seasonal Workers Program, working holidaymaker visa and international student visa schemes. The findings demonstrate that migrant temporariness is a form of insecurity driven not only by policies …
Temporary Migrants as Dehumanised 'Other' in the Time of Covid-19: We're All in This Together
Temporary migrants comprise a substantial component of the Australian workforce. Evidence of the tensions and contradictions in Australia's reliance on temporary migrant workers was spotlighted during the COVID-19 global health crisis, particularly with regards to the actions and responsibilities of key players in the attraction, recruitment, deployment and ultimately abandonment of these workers. In this article, we interrogate the public framin…
The Refugee Integration Industry: Stakeholder Power, Market Logic, and the (De)Humanisation of Refugee Labour
This paper theorises the refugee integration industry by examining how institutional configurations and stakeholder arrangements shape labour market integration outcomes for refugees in Germany and Turkey. Drawing on Spender's theory of industrial recipes, we conceptualise the integration industry as a network of public, private and third‐sector actors governed by competing logics of humanitarianism and market efficiency. Through a comparative ca…
Spatial and transformative dimensions of recent Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan refugee family settlement in Australia
Conceptualizing class in workplace diversity: A narrative review
How is class discussed in workplace diversity research? Class has long been central to social studies of inequality, yet its meaning remains fragmented and contested across sociology, political economy, psychology and organization studies. This creates a challenge for workplace diversity scholarship: although class is increasingly treated as an important dimension of diversity, it is often unclear whether class is being understood as an individua…
Whose Justice? A Turn to Relational Equality from the Experiences of Ethno-Racially Marginalised Women in Australian Workplaces
This paper examines how ethno-racially marginalised women in Australian workplaces continue to be constrained by enduring organisational norms that privilege whiteness, masculinity, and Western/Anglo-cultural modes of participation. Further, we show how mainstream diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives reproduce exclusion and marginalisation in unintended and new ways by misrecognising or sidelining intersectional experiences. Through…
A multi-layered approach to accounting for ethno-racial diversity: An Australian study
This paper makes a novel contribution to organisational scholarship and practice by addressing the absence of an operationally useful approach to ethno-racial diversity that adequately accounts for the contested, context-dependent, and power-laden nature of ethnicity and race. Informed by the complexities surrounding the objective/subjective binary to measuring ethno-racial diversity, we develop a multilayered conceptual framework, incorporating …
Political science (15 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (7 works)