Theorising how race and Africanness intersect in the professional lives of African immigrants can provide a nuanced understanding of how racial identities shape the professional identities of Black Africans in Australia. This article is contextualised within a larger study that sought to explore the Afro-diasporic experiences of highly skilled Black African immigrants in South Australia. Particularly, it examines how Black African professionals experience their workplace. Data were collected through face-to-face semi-structured interviews with twenty-seven Black African professionals in South Australia. The findings from this study reveal that the often-accepted narrative of race-free workplaces is not one that is supported by Black African immigrants’ experiences, as they report constant, subtle and covert patterns of racial microaggressions in the workplace. Utilising critical race theories, this article makes the invisibility of microaggressions visible by probing how the Black body is worn as a burden in the workplace, which consequently produces psychological distress and racial battle fatigue. This study will provide social work practitioners with a critical understanding of the various challenges facing African professionals in the workplace, and how processes of racialisation at work may impact on psychological safety in this environment.

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工作中的种族微侵略：澳大利亚黑人非洲专业人员的几点思考

对种族和非洲性在非洲移民的职业生活中如何相交的理论可以提供对种族身份如何塑造澳大利亚黑人非洲人的职业身份的细微理解。本文是在一项较大的研究中进行背景研究的，该研究旨在探索南澳大利亚州高技能的黑人非洲移民的非流离失所经历。特别是，它研究了黑人非洲专业人员如何体验他们的工作场所。通过与南澳大利亚的27名黑人非洲专业人员面对面的半结构化访谈收集了数据。这项研究的结果表明，人们普遍接受的关于非种族工作场所的叙述并非得到黑人非洲移民经验的支持，因为他们报告说，移民的经历是不变的，工作场所中种族微侵略的隐秘模式。通过运用批判种族理论，本文通过探究黑体是如何在工作场所中负担的，从而使微侵略的隐性可见，从而导致心理困扰和种族战斗疲劳。这项研究将使社会工作从业人员对非洲专业人员在工作场所面临的各种挑战，以及在工作中种族化的过程如何影响这种环境下的心理安全，具有批判性的理解。