Dead men working: time and space in London's ('illegal') migrant economy

By A. Ahmad. 2008

156 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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In General Health Professions

1. Chris Tilly
2. M. Shahid
3. B. Anderson
4. Colin Williams

In Sociology and Political Science

1. M. Shahid
2. Chris Tilly
3. B. Anderson
4. Colin Williams

Citations in the corpus

• Determinants of the Level of Informality of Informal Micro-Enterprises: Some Evidence from the City of Lahore, Pakistan (2016, background): “Informal enterprise is also found to be concentrated among lowerincome populations (Ahmad, 2008), although this has been argued to differ across populations, not least depending upon the level of social protection available (Williams, 2014).”
• Informal entrepreneurship and institutional theory: explaining the varying degrees of (in)formalization of entrepreneurs in Pakistan (2016, background): “Whilst some argue that informal entrepreneurship is concentrated in lower-income populations (e.g. ahmad 2008), others assert that although lower-income groups disproportionately engage in informal entrepreneurship, they benefit less, meaning that such endeavour reinforces, rather than reduces, the…”
• The impact of the economic crisis on international migration: a review (2011, background): “Stigmatization and limited social networks contribute to this marginalization, and unauthorized migrants are the most precarious of all (Ahmad, 2008; Behtoui and Neergaard, 2010; Gammage, 2008).”
• Out of the shadows: a classification of economies by the size and character of their informal sector (2014, background): “…argue that the informal sector is a by-product of economic deregulation and reductions in state welfare provision, and that labour market interventions and welfare provision should be therefore bolstered to tackle the informal sector (Ahmad, 2008; Ghezzi, 2010; Meagher, 2010; Slavnic, 2010).”
• Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers (2010, background): “That is, the problem for them is not simply the risk of employer abuse, but enforced temporariness and the manner in which fear of deportation can lead to a pressure to maximise the ‘now’, whatever the current opportunities might be (Ahmad, 2008).”
• Measuring Precarious Employment: A Proposal for Two Indicators of Precarious Employment Based on Set-Theory and Tested with Dutch Labor Market-Data (2013, unknown): “Qualitative research often focuses on the propensity of immigrants to be precariously employed (Ahmad 2008; Porthé et al. 2010).”