Fair Enough? Central and East European Migrants in Low-Wage Employment in the UK

By B. Anderson, M. Ruhs, B. Rogaly, S. Spencer. 2006

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• “Economic Migrants” or “Middling Transnationals”? East European Migrants’ Experiences of Work in the UK (2014, background): “The fact that agencies often employ workers in breach of employment regulations is also reported in the COMPAS study on low-paid East European migrant workers in the United Kingdom (Anderson et al., 2006; also see Anderson et al., 2007).”
• Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement (2009, background): “…speaking EU15 countries: many immigrants have studied English at home and valued the opportunity to use, improve or study it in these countries (Anderson et al., 2006); enlargement may have contributed to the legalization of previously illegal immigrants already in the country, which would…”
• Women and recession revisited (2013, background): “In the 2000s, migrants from the new EU states and elsewhere may have become a more important source of cheap labour substitution than native born women, in part because employers were more likely not to observe all employment regulations when hiring migrant workers (Anderson et al., 2006).”
• London's Migrant Division of Labour (2009, background): “Data from the WRS indicate that more than half a million workers have registered since 2004 and although there is no requirement to deregister when leaving the country, some commentators estimate that there are now more than 1m Eastern Europeans living and working in the UK (Anderson et al., 2006).”
• International student‐workers in Australia: a new vulnerable workforce (2009, background): “(UKCISA 2006) In comparison, Anderson et al. (2006) surveyed Eastern European student-workers studying in the UK and found a large proportion of international students work more hours than their visa permitted.”
• A Race to the Bottom? Trade Unions, EU Enlargement and the Free Movement of Labour (2009, background): “Irish union officials often recalled their own migration experience to account for their support for the free movement of labour: ‘everyone in Ireland would have some family member who had to migrate for work, whether it be to Britain, America or indeed more recently into Europe in the early 80s and”
• Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers (2010, background): “(House of Lords, 2008: 100) Migrants who are not SAWS visa holders and citizens in contrast can ‘easily move between jobs’ or ‘simply move on to other work’ (Anderson et al., 2006).”
• Old and New European Economic Migrants: Whiteness and Managed Migration Policies (2009, background): “…the agricultural, construction, hospitality and domestic service (au pairs) sectors by the Oxford Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS), Anderson et al. (2006) found that, for employers, the main advantages of those who were regarded as highly motivated workers were their reliability…”