Private Labour Market Intermediaries in Cross-Border Labour Markets in Europe and Asia: International Norms, Regional Actors and Patterns of Cross-Border Labour Mobility

Shire, Karen; Heinrich, Steffen; Imai, Jun; Mottweiler, Hannelore; Tünte, Markus

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“…Harvey et al (2018) argue that the intermediaries are crucial in shaping the migration process, even for skilled migrants. As noted by Shire et al (2018), research on intermediaries in the migration of skilled labour to Japan remains scarce.…”

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Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam

Muranaka

2021

Global Networks

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The field of migration studies regards intermediaries as actors who manage the mobility of people, but academic works on their roles in the making of cross‐border labour markets remain scarce. Using the frameworks of market‐making and relational work, this study examines how Japanese intermediaries participate in the making of a cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam. The study's findings are threefold. First, linguistic certification by an intermediary serves as a gatekeeper of labour's quality and allows an officially implemented linguistic boundary to shift. Second, intermediaries train employers and skilled migrant worker candidates by adjusting their presentation in recruitment venues. Third, intermediaries assist in officializing the employment relationship between employers and migrant workers. This study argues that, due to the absence of a concrete migration policy in Japan, intermediaries actively participate in market‐making practices by shifting, adjusting and making visible the boundaries within cross‐border labour exchanges.

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“…As noted by Shire et al. (2018), research on intermediaries in the migration of skilled labour to Japan remains scarce.…”

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Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam

Muranaka

2021

Global Networks

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“…It is still a relatively recent labour market segment, originating in the cross-border expansion of production organisations (Coe et al, 2011), the growing global trade for personnel services (e.g. mode 4 trade in the World Trade Organization code) as well as the changing norms and increased legitimation of TAW as a form of employment (Shire et al, 2018). In the EU, the development of cross-border TAW has been fueled by the 2008 Directive (2008/104/EC) on TAW, which has harmonised regulations and legitimated TAW in all member states (Sartori, 2016).…”

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“…Union attitudes towards TAW began to change from the late 1990s, in part due to the changes in ILO conventions, which in 1997 formally legitimated private feecharging employment agencies (Shire et al, 2018), and with the so-called Hartz reforms of 2001-2003. A key recommendation of the Hartz commission was the deregulation of TAW following the Dutch model, which included both the legislation of equal treatment and the possibility to deviate from it through collective agreements (Vitols, 2008).…”

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Fighting (for) the margins: Trade union responses to the emergence of cross-border temporary agency work in the European Union

Heinrich

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Mottweiler

2020

Journal of Industrial Relations

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Recent research suggests that trade unions in the European Union have become more receptive towards temporary and migrant workers and recognise their distinct interests. This article investigates to what extent this shift in attitude informs union responses to cross-border temporary agency work, an important variant of migrant non-standard work in the European Union. This employment form entails several potential lines of intra-labour conflicts of interests, that is, insider versus outsider and domestic versus migrant workers, and thus offers a particularly promising case to study whether and how unions seek to aggregate the interests of an increasingly heterogeneous workforce. Our findings suggest that although trade unions have gained considerable regulatory influence and new capacities to mediate conflicts of interest between different worker groups, a considerable degree of ambiguity remains in union positions and strategies towards temporary agency work and cross-border labour. Instead of gradual steps towards full inclusion of workers regardless of status and origin, union responses are best described as selective representation.

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Brokerage in the Cross-border Labour Market: Recruitment and Training of Vietnamese IT Workers by Japanese Temporary Staffing Firms

Muranaka

2022

Asian Studies Review

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Private Labour Market Intermediaries in Cross-Border Labour Markets in Europe and Asia: International Norms, Regional Actors and Patterns of Cross-Border Labour Mobility

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam

Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam

Fighting (for) the margins: Trade union responses to the emergence of cross-border temporary agency work in the European Union

Brokerage in the Cross-border Labour Market: Recruitment and Training of Vietnamese IT Workers by Japanese Temporary Staffing Firms

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