Precarious Work and Economic Migration: Emerging Immigrant Divisions of Labour in Greater London's Service Sector

By L. McDowell, Adina Batnitzky, Sarah Dyer. 2009

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Temporary migration, precarious employment and unfree labour relations: Exploring the ‘continuum of exploitation’ in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (2017, background): “…precarious employment have distinct but entangled intellectual and political lineages, and are of increasing interest to geographers studying insecurity across a range of domains (see, for example, Ettlinger, 2007; Harker, 2012; McDowell et al., 2009; Torres et al., 2013; Waite, 2009; Woon, 2011).”
Constrained agency? Re-evaluating the geographies of labour (2011, background): “…the global expansion strategies of leading agencies introduced above; the facilitation of migrant worker movements across national borders (eg, see McDowell et al., 2009, on migrants in London’s service sector); the formation of distinctive national markets as transnational agencies interact with…”