Are Immigrant Workers Discriminated? An Empirical Study with Special Reference to the Hospitality Industry of Kristiansand, Norway

The topics about immigrants in media, and academia are not rare anymore due to the rise of immigrants in the global north at an exponential rate. However, despite the extensive number of studies on such topics, the clustering of immigrants in elementary occupations in the host countries is still much visible due to different reasons and it is not an exception for countries like Norway where social equality is enshrined. Considering Norway, one putative cause of immigrants’ clustering in elementary occupations in addition to most pronounced reasons such as language barrier is ethnic discrimination. Therefore, this qualitative study was conducted to explore how ethnicity affects the occupatio…