Sense of belonging at work: experiences of racialised employees

Abstract

Despite the vast research on the sense of belonging of racialised students, less is known about the perspective of racialised employees. The goal of this decolonial research is to understand and analyse which elements in the work environment could determine racialised sense of belonging, and explore the role of code-switching in the work context. This study voices some of the racialised experiences through photovoice, a community-based participatory research with photos as the main data. An analysis of these explains the key elements determining the sense of belonging, which focus on the practical implementation of inclusive policies. Co-researchers shared individual experiences and defined different elements related to their work related sense of belonging, which allowed us to define four factors: representation, leadership, relation with colleagues and work culture.