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Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers

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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 m...

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Peer review status:
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10.1177/0950017010362141

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Department:
Centre on Migration,Policy and Society
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Publisher:
SAGE Publications Publisher's website
Journal:
Work, Employment and Society Journal website
Volume:
24
Issue:
2
Pages:
300-317
Publication date:
2010-06-01
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EISSN:
1469-8722
ISSN:
0950-0170
Language:
English
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Deposit date:
2011-03-22

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