Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers

By B. Anderson. 2010

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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In General Health Professions

1. A. Veen
2. T. Barratt
3. Caleb Goods
4. D. McCollum
5. A. Findlay
6. Zinovijus Ciupijus
7. F. McGinnity
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In Sociology and Political Science

1. A. Veen
2. T. Barratt
3. Caleb Goods
4. D. McCollum
5. A. Findlay
6. Zinovijus Ciupijus
7. F. McGinnity
8. Robin Price

Citations in the corpus

• Mobile central eastern Europeans in Britain: successful European Union citizens and disadvantaged labour migrants? (2011, background): “As Anderson (2009) puts it, CEE within the EU has continued to be treated as a low-wage periphery offering a supply of workers prepared to accept long working hours – hence the popularity of the work ethic discourse among UK employers documented by MacKenzie and Forde (2009).”
• Temporary migration, precarious employment and unfree labour relations: Exploring the ‘continuum of exploitation’ in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (2017, background): “…labour is understood in relation to a continuum of exploitation (Skrivankova, 2010; Fudge and Strauss, 2014; McGrath and Strauss, 2015) highlights their interrelationship in the context of migrants’ labour market inclusion or incorporation (Miles, 1982; Phillips, 2013; Ruhs and Anderson, 2010).”
• ‘Flexible’ workers for ‘flexible’ jobs? The labour market function of A8 migrant labour in the UK (2015, background): “(Iris, labour provider, urban England) Producing flexibility: employer practices The issues considered above tie in with the ideas of authors such as Anderson (2010) and Scott (2013), in that economic and geo-political structures can serve to produce ‘precarious’ or ‘good’ workers over whom…”
• Precarious work and precarious workers: Towards an improved conceptualisation (2016, background): “…and then by academics, refers to a generalised set of social conditions and an associated sense of insecurity, experienced by precarious workers but extending to other domains of social life such as housing, welfare provision and personal relationships (Anderson, 2010; Arnold and Bongiovi, 2013).”
• Platform-Capital’s ‘App-etite’ for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia (2019, background): “Migrant workers are at higher risk of exploitation (Anderson, 2010), while transient workers are willing to tolerate poorer working conditions (Galván, 2012).”
• Migrant workers: Challenges and opportunities in addressing tourism labour shortages (2012, background): “However, in some countries the lines are blurred between ‘migrants’ and ‘foreign-born workers’ who may have all the rights of native workers (Anderson, 2010).”
• The impact of the economic crisis on international migration: a review (2011, background): “Immigration policy and enforcement in rich countries structure insecurity for migrants (Anderson, 2010; Gammage, 2008).”
• Measuring discrimination facing ethnic minority job applicants: an Irish experiment (2011, background): “groups may be disadvantaged in terms of working conditions (Turner, 2010) and precarity (Anderson, 2010), in Britain and other European countries (Heath and Cheung, 2007) and in the USA, though important variations in the performance of different groups do exist.”
• International Labour Migration and Food Production in Rural Europe: A Review of the Evidence (2018, background): “Nevertheless, many are critical of the state’s use of guest-worker programmes and specifically how policy is used as a “mould” (Anderson 2010, p. 300) to create ‘good’ and ‘better’ workers.”