On the edge: changing geographies of the global city precariat in London and Hong Kong

Jordan, Lucy P.; DeVerteuil, Geoffrey; Kandt, Jens; Manley, David; Wu, Qiaobing

doi:10.1080/02723638.2016.1258205

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“…Migrants who are not permanent residents (the vast majority) are ineligible for unemployment benefits or access to public housing (SoCO, 2017). The provision of non‐governmental support is geographically concentrated and, with the reality of low wages, high housing costs and long working hours, largely inaccessible (Jordan et al, 2017).…”

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“…The provision of social policy support to migrants is restricted and strictly determined by migrant legal status. For example, recently arrived migrants are ineligible for public housing, whereas those seeking asylum are forbidden to work (Jordan, DeVerteuil, Kandt, Manley, & Wu, 2017; Law & Lee, 2006). Given the salience of legal status, we focus on the experiences of precariousness among five groups of migrants with restricted access to opportunity: asylum seekers, domestic workers, tied migrants, one‐way and two‐way permit migrants from mainland China, and overstayers.…”

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Migration, precariousness, and the linked lives of newcomers in Hong Kong

Bailey

Hankins

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Population Space and Place

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We develop the concept of linked lives to deepen understanding of the relationship between migration and precarity. Linked lives and precariousness are mutually constitutive as they embed subjects in the social, spatial, and temporal relations of everyday life while referencing transitions, trajectories, and biographies that unfold through the life course. Studying linked lives draws attention to how cumulative social and cultural processes, including familyhood and belonging, contribute to the persistence of precarity. On the basis of 64 qualitative interviews with selected newcomer migrants in Hong Kong, we describe how precariousness was not just restricted to exploitative employment or limited rights but enveloped multiple domains of everyday life, including housing and social fields. Respondents associated precariousness with feelings of generalised pressure and disrupted spacetimes and connected it with their expectations for familyhood, employment, social life, and belonging. We argue that the mutual constitution of precariousness and linked lives has important implications for social policy and close with a call for the creation of resourceful spacetimes that support linked lives and, more widely, a more participatory process of formulating social policy for migrants.

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Migration, precariousness, and the linked lives of newcomers in Hong Kong

Bailey

Hankins

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Population Space and Place

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“…This research draws on data from the ‘Statistical Areas level 1’ census geography, which can then be aggregated based on the postal area data contained within the SEIFA data set. Poverty was considered a good proxy for need, given that vulnerable populations who use the voluntary sector tend to be poor, or at least socially and spatially precarious (Jordan et al., 2017). To focus the poverty data, we relied on taxation statistics from the Australian Taxation Office at the postal area level for the 2014–2015 income year.…”

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“…The dominant findings in 1990s Los Angeles County showed an incredibly uneven service landscape, with deficits not just in suburban nodes of poverty but also central ones where services were plentiful (‘service hubs’), but not plentiful enough for the large demand. This effective mapping method was again used to map the supply of voluntary sector organizations and demand by work-precarious migrants in Hong Kong and London (Jordan et al., 2017). Of course, there are disadvantages to this approach, namely that all organizations were equally weighted regardless of their importance to vulnerable populations, their size or their budgets.…”

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Emerging anti-poverty infrastructural gaps in suburbia: Poverty and the voluntary sector across Metropolitan Sydney

2020

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Suburbs are subject to numerous stereotypes, including that they lack density, diversity and inclusivity. While these stereotypes have largely been dispelled, the deficit around anti-poverty infrastructure remains understudied. The focus of this paper is to systematically investigate the ostensible mismatch between (a) the emerging suburbanization of poverty, and (b) the potential lack of anti-poverty infrastructure to serve it, with a focus on suburban voluntary sector provision. These aims address the potential infrastructural deficit around voluntary sector provision in suburban areas of prosperous global cities in the Global North. Using Metropolitan Sydney as the case study, we investigate the extent of the suburban infrastructure service deficit across metropolitan space in 2016, comparing poverty patterns and supply of voluntary sector organizations. We find that poor inner and outer suburbs featured fewer services than the inner city, both per capita and per low-income residents, confirming an anti-poverty infrastructural gap.

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“…Most scholarly attention on this topic has focused on the relationship between migration and precarious work (Alberti 2014; Eberle and Holliday 2011), and the problems of precarious work are reported both in developed countries (Karlsson 2015; Van Oort 2015; Vosko, Zukewich, and Cranford 2003) and in developing countries (Lee, Hampton, and Jeyacheya 2015; Ofreneo 2013; Sardar 2012). Precarious workers can be found in high-skilled jobs (Boese et al 2013; Jordan et al 2017; Strauss and McGrath 2017; Velayutham 2013) and low-skilled jobs (Alberti 2014; Forde and MacKenzie 2009; Fudge 2011; Kim 2017; Lee, Hampton, and Jeyacheya 2015).…”

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Grateful Precarious Worker? Ukrainian Migrants in Poland

Polkowska

Filipek

2019

Review of Radical Political Economics

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Within the Polish labor market, immigration—along with flexibility, globalization, and mobility—has increased in importance. Because of the many cultural and historical similarities to Poland, as well as geographical proximity, Ukrainians play a very important role. They mostly take on the unattractive (from the point of view of the local worker) work-world positions: ones that are low paying, temporary, and offer insecure and uncertain lengths of employment. Using two in-depth case studies on Ukrainian migrant workers employed in diverse Polish industries, we answer the question of whether Ukrainian citizens working in Poland (economic migrants) are precarious workers in light of Vosko’s and Duell’s concepts of precariat. JEL Classification: J61, J81

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On the edge: changing geographies of the global city precariat in London and Hong Kong

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Cited by 10 publications

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Migration, precariousness, and the linked lives of newcomers in Hong Kong

Migration, precariousness, and the linked lives of newcomers in Hong Kong

Emerging anti-poverty infrastructural gaps in suburbia: Poverty and the voluntary sector across Metropolitan Sydney

Grateful Precarious Worker? Ukrainian Migrants in Poland

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