Blanco, Victor Albert <br/><br/>
Ashura in Barcelona: Spatial Adaptations of a Shia Islamic Ritual in a Diasporic Setting 

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<br/><br/> ‪This article provides a close look at the possible connection between labour market aspirations and perceptions of discrimination. While research on policy implementation and public measures are plentiful regarding immigrants’ labour market integration, less attention has been given to what shapes immigrants’ motivation and desires to become part of the labour market. Following the idea that migrants’ capacity to exert agency is shaped by given — or perceived — opportunity structures the author examines how discrimination, as a specific structural constraint, influence their capacity to aspire in the labour market. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork among refugees settling in Norway. The findings indicate discrimination as a salient part of their migration experiences. Based on how they negotiate and resist discrimination, the author coins the terms “aspirational deprivation” and “aspirational deskilling”‪ ‪to capture how the refugees’ responses to perceived discrimination shape labour market aspirations.‪