From economic integration to socioeconomic inclusion: day labor worker centers as social intermediaries

Visser, M. Anne; Theodore, Nik; Meléndez, Edwin

doi:10.1080/02723638.2016.1168574

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“…Moreover, the friend network is perceived as a more efficient route to economic integration as it can provide more valuable and diversified information related to employment while information provided by the family network is quite familiar to the individuals. This presumption has been proven by a study on day labor worker centers in the United States where immigrants, who seek employment information through a friend network built up at the worker centers, are more likely to be employed than their compatriots who stay at home and seek information through the family network [36]. However, although the friend network is more efficient, immigrants generally rely on the family network as it is difficult to truly get in with others, especially the natives [22,35].…”

Section: Active Economic Integration: Informality Social and Human Cmentioning

confidence: 92%

From Passive to Active: A Multiplayer Economic Integration Process of Turkish Immigrants in Berlin

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Abstract:Recently, economic integration of lower-skill immigrants in Western countries has become the most researched area in ethnic studies. Traditional studies have highlighted the influences of immigration policy and economic structure in the host society. This paradigm perceives immigrants as a passive actor in the economic integration process. Recently, more studies have paid attention to the active influence of lower-skill immigrants (e.g., informality, social and human capital accumulation, ethnic economy), presenting an academic transformation from passive to active economic integration. However, this transformation is disputed as the lower-skill immigrants' active integration behavior does not affirmatively represent successful economic integration. Moreover, inspired by the "three-way approach" model, whether lower-skill immigrants could successfully integrate may also depend on actors beyond the natives and lower-skill immigrants (e.g., visitors). In this sense, two questions remain uncertain: (1) In the process of an active economic integration, what are the roles played by the two traditionally highlighted actors? (2) Enlightened by the "three-way approach" model, is there a third or fourth actor exerting influences in the active economic integration process? To answer these questions, from a food ethnic economy perspective, we analyzed how actors play roles in the Turkish immigrants' economic integration process in Mitte, Berlin. Through our fieldwork observations and interviews, we concluded that (1) there are four actors in total (e.g., Turkish immigrants, Germans, non-Turkish immigrants, and transnational visitors) in the Turkish integration process, presenting a multiplayer model distinct from the traditional bi-player research framework; (2) Turkish immigrants launched the Turkish food ethnic economy through actively adjusting their ethnic food's eating forms; (3) Germans promote the economic integration of Turkish immigrants by providing a larger market for Turkish ethnic food; and (4) non-Turkish immigrants and transnational visitors also promote the integration process through consumption.

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Section: Active Economic Integration: Informality Social and Human Cmentioning

confidence: 92%

From Passive to Active: A Multiplayer Economic Integration Process of Turkish Immigrants in Berlin

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“…Buitelanders het nie eers daardie roete van deelname aan openbare prosesse en debat nie. Daar bestaan nie beleid, prosedures of organisasies waar hulle kan deelneem, klagtes kan lê, beskerming kan vra of ondersteuning kan ontvang soos in die geval van die werkersentrum in die VSA nie (Visser et al 2016). Geen liggaam bestaan tans wat ondersteuning aan die dagloner kan bied wanneer hy uitgebuit sou word nie, aangesien sy ongereguleerde werk en bestaan niemand verantwoordbaar maak nie.…”

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Dagloners: 'n Gevallestudie van die kwesbaarheid van die maatskaplike bestel en samehorigheid in Suid-Afrika se informele ekonomie

Schenck

Blaauw

2022

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is tans professor en gegradeerde navorser in die Departement Maatskaplike Werk aan die Universiteit van die Wes-Kaap (UWK). Voordat sy by UWK begin werk het, was sy 25 jaar aan Unisa en 6 jaar aan die Universiteit van Pretoria (UP) verbonde. Haar navorsing is gerig op armoede, werkloosheid en in besonder op die persone wat 'n bestaan probeer maak in die informele ekonomie. Professor Schenck en haar navorsingspan gee veral aandag aan die dagloners en vullisherwinners. Sy het reeds wyd in nasionale en internasionale tydskrfte gepubliseer oor die bepaalde onderwerp. DeRick Blaauw is 'n professor in die Skool vir Ekonomiese Wetenskappe aan die Noordwes-Universiteit (Potchefstroom-kampus). Voor sy huidige pos het hy ekonomie aan die Universiteit van Johannes burg (UJ) gedoseer asook aan die Randse Afri kaanse Universiteit (RAU) en die Soweto-en Bloemfontein-kampusse van Vista Universiteit. Professor Blaauw se navorsing is hoofsaaklik op arbeids-en ontwikkelingsekonomie gerig. Sy huidige werk is toegespits op die sosio-ekonomiese dinamika van kwesbare groepe in die informele ekonomie, insluitend karwagte, Rinie Schenck is professor and rated researcher in the Department of Social Work at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Prior to UWC she lectured at Unisa for 25 years and 6 years at the University of Pretoria (UP). Her research focus is on poverty, unemployment and in particular on people who are making a living in the informal economy, including day labourers and waste pickers. She has published extensively in national and international journals.

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“…Instead, as Kudva () suggests, the experience of informality must be understood and approached as an “everyday” and “episodic” reality that takes places in specific localities. Individual relationships to formal market and state institutions vary, and the ways in and the extent to which migrant workers participate and access these institutions generate formal and informal processes that simultaneously shape and react to other factors influencing migrant participation in the informal economy (Roy, ; Kudva, ; Visser et al, ).…”

Section: The Informal Economy and International Migration In Post‐indmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, research on the intersections of migration and the informal economy in post‐industrial economies continues to paint an understanding of migrant workers engaged in the informal economy as an extremely vulnerable labour supply (Munck, ; Goldring & Landolt, ; Bauder, ; Visser et al , ). Yet existing research has failed to effectively map and excavate spaces beyond immigration status that influence the power relationship between migrant workers and employers.…”

Section: The Informal Economy and International Migration In Post‐indmentioning

confidence: 99%

Room for Manoeuvre: Rethinking the Intersections Between Migration and the Informal Economy in Post‐Industrial Economies

Visser

Guarnizo

2017

Population Space and Place

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Dominant scholarly and policy discourse implicitly connect growth in immigration to growth in the informal economy and negative socio-economic outcomes in post-industrial societies. In this introduction, we highlight some of the broader questions and implications raised by the multidisciplinary work of our contributors that challenge this immigrationinformality hypothesis. We argue that existing studies of the informal economy in postindustrial societies underscore the multiscalar economic, social, and political facets and dimensions that shape the intersection between migration and the spread of informal economic practices in the global north. However, this body of work does not adequately connect the ways in which these processes influence immigrants' economic and labour market integration. The contributions to this special issue focus on these dimensions seeking to identify how they are constructed and the opportunities, challenges, and possibilities they present for migrant workers and migrantreceiving societies. Collectively, the contributions challenge dominant narratives surrounding the relationship between migration and the informal economy and contribute to theorise them as co-constituted at multiscalar relational processes.

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From economic integration to socioeconomic inclusion: day labor worker centers as social intermediaries

Cited by 27 publications

References 54 publications

From Passive to Active: A Multiplayer Economic Integration Process of Turkish Immigrants in Berlin

From Passive to Active: A Multiplayer Economic Integration Process of Turkish Immigrants in Berlin

Dagloners: 'n Gevallestudie van die kwesbaarheid van die maatskaplike bestel en samehorigheid in Suid-Afrika se informele ekonomie

Room for Manoeuvre: Rethinking the Intersections Between Migration and the Informal Economy in Post‐Industrial Economies

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