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I repeated exactly, enunciating the syllables, what I had said: I wanted to prac¬tice my social work profession, and I did not want anything else.
This time, the counsellor, who, I knew later, was a social worker herself, could not repress her irritation at what she perceived as naivety or, even worse, stubbornness:
“But do you know at least what a social worker is? And what path must be followed? You might consider something more accessible to you. Look, since it seems you want to work in this area, you could become a domestic assistant, that’s suitable”.
Scholastique Mukasonga (2018: 133)
The experience of Mukasonga’s heroine could be that of one of my interviewees. After struggling to obtain her diploma in Burundi, the woman is faced with French social workers and recruiters that give no value to her “so beautiful diploma”. Moreover, the employment counsel¬lor advises her to look for a job with low social recognition in the care sector, where the woman will make little use of her educational back¬ground and her prior professional experience. Scholastique Mukasonga gives a literary perspective on the struggles and challenges that migrant women with tertiary education face when looking for employment in their field, and that are at the core of this book.
Although holding tertiary education is expected to facilitate access to rewarding positions (OECD, 2019), returns on education for migrant women are reduced. Regardless of their educational background, migrant women in Western Europe primarily find employment in jobs at the bot¬tom of the employment structure (Kofman, 2012; OECD, 2014; Grigoleit-Richter, 2017). With the same level of education, they tend to perform jobs with lower social recognition and income compared to non-migrant women and men.
Scholars have explored the impact of migration policies (Liversage, 2009; Purkayastha & Bircan, 2021), of low recognition of skills gained abroad (Chiswick & Miller, 2009; Kofman, 2012; Coccia & Pittau, 2016), and of networks (Tognetti Bordogna, 2012) in confining migrant women at the bottom of the employment structure. However, the literature on migrant women with tertiary education, or so-called skilled migrations, has given little attention to the influence that essentialism has on limiting access to jobs. Essentialism is a process through which people become defined as a group based on alleged common biological or cultural charac-teristics (Grosz, 1990). As it will be further explored in the book, essential¬ism is imposed by a dominant group on an oppressed group, to justify inequality in access to resources, including access to graduate jobs.
In Italy and France, the few publications that have tackled essentialism in the recruitment and selection process, have not especially taken into account migrant women’s educational background (Scrinzi, 2013). Conversely, scholars that have studied the paths of migrant women with tertiary education in these countries rarely analyse the impact of essen¬tialism in limiting their access to employment (Brandi, 2010; Killian & Manohar, 2015).