Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers

Journal article

Abstract:: Immigration controls are often presented by government as a means of ensuring 'British jobs for British workers' and protecting migrants from exploitation. However, in practice they can undermine labour protections. As well as a tap regulating the flow of labour, immigration controls function as a mould, helping to form types of labour with particular relations to employers and the labour marker. In particular, the construction of institutionalised uncertainty, together with less formalised migratory processes, help produce 'precarious workers' over whom employers and labour users have particular mechanisms of control.

Language:: English
Keywords:: migrant labour

immigration policy

precarious labour

illegal immigration

segmentation
Subjects:: Migration
UUID:: uuid:23214985-42c6-4091-9046-3d45770ca145
Local pid:: ora:5155
Deposit date:: 2011-03-22

Copyright holder:: Anderson, B
Notes:: The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Work, Employment and Society, 24(2), June 2010 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2010 Bridget Anderson.

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