Migration and work: From Hyper-precarity to migrant infrastructure

6 Abril 2017, 10:00 Jennifer Leigh McGarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho

Migration and work: From Hyper-precarity to migrant infrastructure


What pertinence does labour market incorporation have in migration processes ? 
• How are migrants actually positioned in the labour market after migration? – How do they find employment?/ In what employment can they be found?/What incomes do they have?
• How can we explain these patterns?

 Presenter: Robert Spletzer Hall, S., King, J. and Finlay, R. (2016) ‘Migrant Infrastructure: Transaction economies in Birmingham and Leicester’, Urban Studies, early online: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/65328/ 
Presenters: Friederike Hartwig &Franziska Gutzweiler Lewis, H., Dwyer, P., Hodkinson, S. and Waite, L. (2015) Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North, Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 39(5) 580–600.