Ethnic discrimination in employment decisions has received increasing attention and is one of several explanatory models for why Sweden has an ethnically segregated labor market. The purpose of this study is to contribute to an increased understanding of how recruiters reflect on the ethnically segregated labor market and anonymous job applications. The purpose is answered with the questions of how recruiters relate to the ethnically segregated labor market, which individual and structural explanations they raise and how recruiters view anonymous job applications. Previous research shows that ethnic discrimination is a reflection of the segregated labor market and that anonymous job applications has positive effects in terms of interview requests for immigrants. This study is based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with recruitment and staffing companies. Three companies whose method is anonymous and two companies with non- anonymous methods. The results show that recruiters describe the ethnically segregated labor market as a result of both structural and individual explanations. Recruiters discuss the anonymous job applications in terms of having generally more advantages than disadvantages, where the main advantage is the anonymisation of candidates in order to reduce the risk for sources of error in the recruitment process. / Etnisk diskriminering vid anställningsbeslut är ett uppmärksammat ämne och är en av flera förklaringsmodeller till varför Sverige har en etnisk segregerad arbetsmarknad. Syftet med denna studie är att bidra till en ökad förståelse för hur rekryterare reflekterar kring den etniskt segregerade arbetsmarknaden och anonyma ansökningsprocesser. Syftet besvaras med hjälp av frågeställningarna hur rekryterare förhåller sig till den etniskt segregerade arbetsmarknaden, vilka individuella och strukturella förklaringar de beskriver samt hur rekryterare ser på anonyma ansökningsprocesser. Tidigare forskning påvisar att etnisk diskriminering är en återspegling av den segregerade arbetsmarknaden och att anonyma ansökningsprocesser har positiva effekter vad gäller intervjuförfrågningar för immigranter. Studie baseras på kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med rekryterings- och bemanningsföretag. Intervjuerna genomförs på tre företag vars ansökningsprocess är anonym och två företag som inte använder en anonym ansökningsprocess. Resultatet visar att rekryterare beskriver den etnisk segregerade arbetsmarknaden till följd av både strukturella och individuella förklaringar. Rekryterare uppvisar övergripande fler fördelar än nackdelar med anonyma ansökningsprocesser. Den främsta fördelen är att anonymisering av kandidater minskar risken för felkällor i rekryteringsprocessen.

The purpose of this study is to pose possibilities in addressing the problem of ethnical discrimination, its development into supersessionism and the perpetual discriminatory practices in the contemporary church by engaging Acts 6:1-7 from a rhetorical and deconstructive perspective. The episode in Acts 6:1-7, where the seven men have been selected to deal with the issue of the “daily distribution of food” presents a problem with regard to its interpretation. The problem resides in the fact that the text itself contains a certain number of inconsistencies. The most obvious is the contradiction between the task assigned to the seven and their actual function in the subsequent narrative. The account of the selection of the seven has attracted the attention of many scholars. However, although they have identified the contradictions and incoherencies, the methodologies applied by these scholars to uncover the original meaning, did not enable them to dismantle the hierarchical dichotomies underlying the text, and to question how ethnical discrimination can be prevented as well as how the leadership is differently constructed. The objective of this study is to expose these contradictions and to ask how we can deal with this exposure, and how we can think with a text such as Acts 6:1-7 in addressing the problem of ethnical discrimination, supersessionism and leadership, not only in the church but also in its wider political manifestations. The research methodology used in this study derives from deconstruction and rhetoric within the wider ambit of critical theory. Acts 6:1-7, when read from a conjunction of rhetorical and deconstruction perspectives, demonstrates that there is indeed a problem of ethnicity in Acts 6, reveals how the author of Acts privileges an engendered masculinity ethos, exposes the absence of taking the plight of widows into full consideration, shows that the roots of supersessionism can be found in Acts 6: 1-7, and also infuses the notion of leadership with an ethical overturning that requires rethinking the implications for leadership. The significance of the study lies in considering how a continuation of ethnical discrimination in contemporary denominational context can be resisted via my thinking with Acts 6:1-7. / New Testament / D. Th. (New Testament)

The migration to Sweden has increased in the last few years and in order to diminishsegregation and unemployment among the population, it has been a prioritized matterto help the migrants to enter the Swedish labour market. Employers that set languagerequirements when recruiting can reduce the possibility for a person with a differentethnical background to obtain employment. These language requirements can beappropriate and necessary to achieve a legitimate purpose. This study aims toinvestigate in which cases the employer has the right to set a language requirementand in which circumstances setting the requirement is discriminatory on grounds ofethnicity. In order to answer the research question, a legal dogmatic method has beenused.The investigation indicates that the court judge discrimination on grounds of ethnicityvery restrictively and in some cases fails to enforce the law correctly. Employersseem to evade sanctions easily, for example by implying that the decision is based onthe applicant’s personal qualities. This could be a reason why there are only a fewcases taken to the court.