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Immigrants: A Forgotten Minority

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Steve Binggeli ,
Joerg Dietz  and
Franciska Krings
Steve Binggeli*
Affiliation:
University of Lausanne
Joerg Dietz
Affiliation:
University of Lausanne
Franciska Krings
Affiliation:
University of Lausanne
*
E-mail: Steve.Binggeli@unil.ch, Address: Université de Lausanne, Quartier Unil-Dorigny, Bâtiment Internef, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Employment discrimination against immigrants—the unfair behavioral biases against residents of a country who were born abroad, do not possess the local citizenship, and yet live there permanently—remains a vastly understudied topic in industrial and organizational (I–O) psychology, despite several calls over the past 30 years for such research (Bell, Kwesiga, & Berry, 2010; Dietz, 2010; Hirschman, 1982; Pettigrew, 1998). A search for articles published in the same seven top journals selected by Ruggs et al. (2013) in their timely article did not yield a single article that focused on discrimination against immigrants. Recent reviews of employment discrimination (Dipboye & Colella, 2005; Goldman, Gutek, Stein, & Lewis, 2006) also did not mention immigrants and neither did Ruggs et al.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 107 - 113
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2013 

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The first author (S. Binggeli) expresses his gratitude to the Swiss National Science Foundation for financially supporting this work (Grant No. 140041).

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