Journal article
Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers
- Abstract:
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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- 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
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-8722
- ISSN:
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0950-0170
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:5155
- Deposit date:
- 2011-03-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Anderson, B
- Copyright date:
- 2010
- 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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