ABSTRACT
In the institutional perspective guiding this research, otherization and discrimination operate not only in particular interpersonal encounters but also in and through institutions that reproduce power relations in society. Discriminatory practices produce and reproduce differential access to resources, positions, careers, and so forth. Thus, as mentioned earlier, any given society consists of an elaborate ‘web of institutions’ that in their routinized daily actions discriminate against the ‘Others’ and make for unequal life chances.
