Definition of "dequalification"
dequalification
noun
usually uncountable, plural dequalifications
A change so as to require less skill and knowledge, often leading to less responsibility and control.
Quotations
Middle management is particularly threatened with dequalification (reduction in decision-making, supervision and control) .
1990, Federico Butera, Vittorio Di Martino, Eberhard Köhler, Technological Development and the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
The process by which someone is forced to work below the level of their skills and qualifications.
Quotations
Along the same lines, it appears that by accepting some degree of occupational dequalification in relation to real educacional level, and a more or less precarious situation, most young people managed to find work after leaving school, although for the most part by themselves, the ANPE having little effect and then only in cases of particular difficulty.
1978, R. A. de Moor, Changing Tertiary Education in Modern European Society: Report, page 187
Apparently, this has become a common phenomenon in the migration context, as many skilled and highly skilled migrants are being employed in under-qualified positions—a widespread practice which feeds into their dequalification and deskilling.
2018, Ayhan Kaya, Turkish Origin Migrants and Their Descendants
The change in status from qualifying (for something) to not qualifying.
Quotations
If the “fiscal requirement” were left open as to content, it would require Fund negotiation ("conditionality" ) of precisely the type that the major rejects — as well as the strong likelihood of periodic dequalifications and requalifications of countries that would be immensely destabilizing.
2000, Report of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, page 121
One of the consequences of this division was the moralistic dequalification of neutrality by both superpowers.
2016, Stephen K. Badzik, Josef B. Binter, Karl E. Birnbaum, Towards a Future European Peace Order?, page 121
The removal of distinctions; homogenization
Quotations
For Guattari this democratization is fundamentally capitalist because the systematic dequalification of expression, and its sectorization and bipolarization of values in capitalism, treats everything as formally equal and so 'puts differential qualities and non-discursive intensities under the exclusive control of binary and linear relations.'
2017, Christopher Braddock, Animism in Art and Performance, page 250