Migration and the Employer Perspective: Pitfalls and Potentials for a Future Research Agenda

Scott, Sam

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“…This reflects recent calls in the geographies of labour markets that have highlighted the need to develop research on the role that labour market intermediaries play in the constitution of migration (Scott, 2013). For example, Findlay et al (2013) argue that the recent focus on individualised accounts of migration, for example those that seek to ground understandings of migrant identity, has meant that we have a poor understanding of the 'knowledge practices that govern who is selected to move by other actors who control access to international work opportunities' (146).…”

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Producing migrant encounter: Learning to be a British expatriate in Singapore through the Global Mobility Industry

Cranston

2016

Environ Plan D

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Culture shock is when the experience of difference is seen to emotionally overwhelm a migrant. In this paper, I look at how the Global Mobility Industry, an industry that acts as an outsourcer for international human resource management processes, seeks to treat culture shock in the corporate expatriate. Through arguing that different cultures become medicalised as a risk to the expatriate, the paper makes two key points. First, there is a need to understand the way in which migration industries play a role in producing how migrants experience migration, with the paper illustrating a way through which we can conceptually engage with how the Global Mobility Industry manages encounter. Second, through this I argue that there are spaces out with the 'contact zone' through which encounter is learnt, highlighting a need and providing a theoretical basis for how research on migrant identities can explore different sites through which migrant subjectivities are produced as part of their journey's abroad.

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Producing migrant encounter: Learning to be a British expatriate in Singapore through the Global Mobility Industry

Cranston

2016

Environ Plan D

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“…Scott (2013a) 'Recruitment agencies (gangmasters) often act as 'channelling mechanisms' by 'taking workers to where work is available ' (p.707) 'tactics of allusion' by employers and recruitment agencies, by using 'the rhetoric of upward mobility to motivate workers and present dead-end jobs in a positive light' (p. 710).…”

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“…To date, geographic perspectives of trafficking have been seriously lacking. Scott's (2013a) in-depth examination of employers, employment agencies and other labour market intermediaries in the UK food industry is an important intervention here (see also Geddes and Scott, 2010;Scott et al, 2012;Scott, 2013bScott, , 2013cScott, , 2015. For instance, Scott argues that exploitative employment standards and low-wage labour migration is prevalent within specific industrial sectors that are undergoing restructuring.…”

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“…This is exemplified in the UK context by recent national and local media discourses which have reported outcomes of trafficking in relatively 'off-thebeaten-track' places such as Wisbech in Cambridgeshire (Lawrence, 2016b), and Kings Lynn in Norfolk (Lawrence, 2016a), which are linked to places of origin such as Lithuania and Romania (Grimley, 2016); with movements often from and to peripheral small towns and regions which are often under the radar of geographic research (Stenning and Dawley, 2009). The ways in which these destination geographies of trafficking are linked to recruitment and travel-transit geographies of trafficking need to be more fully exposed, particularly as Scott (2013a) contends that similar forms of migration-led exploitation in the labour market are shaped in different ways by places of origin (geographically and socially) and perceptions of future circumstances. What Scott's work implicitly emphasises is the value of a geographic perspective of trafficking to expose the transnational webs of interconnections and links between different places, routes and trafficking processes.…”

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Population geography I

Smith

2017

Progress in Human Geography

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This first report explores how understandings of human trafficking have progressed within population geography. Exemplified by studies of exploitative labour migration, population geography has made implicit contributions by stressing the value of a geographic perspective of the webs of inter-connections and links between different places and trafficking. In addition, dominant ideas of linear trafficking processes have been disrupted, via evidencing the informal involvement of families in the phases of recruitment, transportation, and control. I argue that a more encompassing, inter-disciplinary tenet could be woven into population studies of trafficking, by more explicitly engaging with social science debates. Embedding the legal, global definition of trafficking into wider studies of migration is paramount for this direction of travel. There is also merit in population geography advancing understandings by adopting holistic lenses of enquiry, connecting-up with (sub-)disciplinary geographic studies of migration and trafficking in the Global South and Global North. Studies of trafficking provide a potentially fruitful terrain for population geography to deliver multi-disciplinary, impactful research of a key global challenge, to inform policies to prevent and mitigate the ills of trafficking, and progress conceptual and theoretical understandings of trafficking. KeywordsHuman trafficking, migration, population change, labour, exploitation I IntroductionMigration studies have been intensified within human geography by the so-called 'migration crisis ' (Davies and Isakjee, 2015;Collyer, 2016;Raghuram, 2016), sparking countless recent discussions of smuggling, asylum-seeking, refugees, and precarious and insecure movements; as international migration per se is firmly thrust into international political, policy, media and academic spotlights (Smith et al., 2015). Yet, there continues to be a relative dearth of studies of human trafficking in geographic scholarship, despite this unprecedented attention to conceptually-overlapping forms of migration (O'Connell Davidson, 2010;. This is particularly surprising within the context of population geography, given the ascendency of migration studies within the sub-discipline and trafficking being a form of migration that is in the limelight.First, trafficking is symbolic of wider contemporary global trends of the marketization and growth of migration industries within the 'age of migration ' (King, 2012). Processes of trafficking, for instance, are expressive of King's (2002: 95) assertion that: 'Migration has become a new global business with a constantly shifting set of agents, mechanisms, routes, prices and niches'. Indeed, King uses the example of trafficking to illustrate how market concepts have more fully penetrated into migration processes, describing the growth of a 'Migration PLC' and the proliferation of traffickers, agents, intermediaries, and monetary frameworks for places of origin, routes/transits and destination. In this way, more research on traffi...

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“…This is a point well-argued by scholars such as Anderson 3 (2010) and Scott (2013), who contend that immigration policies can serve to produce 'precarious' or 'good' workers over whom employers and labour users have particular mechanisms of control. There is a long history of employers in Britain and elsewhere seeking to encourage more liberal immigration regimes (Collins, 1988;Esser and Korte, 1985;Freeman, 1979;Craig, 1971) and according to Menz (2011) andSpencer (2003) these pressures have been influential in the liberalisation of national labour migration policies across Europe since the mid-1990s.…”

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The Political Economy of Immigration Policy: The Example of Scotland

McCollum¹,

Tindal²,

Findlay³

2016

Scottish Affairs

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The inward mobility of labour can serve as a driver of economic growth and the immigration policies of many countries are orientated towards this end. However immigration is also a contentious issue, with the general public often displaying hostility towards liberal immigration policies. The compromises between economic and political considerations that states make when developing immigration policy are poorly theorised in academic literature. This study contributes to conceptual understandings of the voices of 'elites' in the politicaleconomy of immigration policy through a critical interrogation of the narratives and preferences of employers in the context of the Scottish constitutional change debate.

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Migration and the Employer Perspective: Pitfalls and Potentials for a Future Research Agenda

Cited by 38 publications

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Producing migrant encounter: Learning to be a British expatriate in Singapore through the Global Mobility Industry

Producing migrant encounter: Learning to be a British expatriate in Singapore through the Global Mobility Industry

Population geography I

The Political Economy of Immigration Policy: The Example of Scotland

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