The Governmentalization of the Trade Union and the Potential of Union-Based Resistance. The Case of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in the Netherlands Making Rights Claims

Eleveld, Anja; Hooren, Franca van

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“…In contexts with a high percentage of undocumented migrants, trade unions often hesitate to pro-actively engage with the issue (for the Netherlands see Eleveld and Van Hooren 2018). This originates in the ambivalent role of trade unions' in-or exclusive solidarity and migration as a contested issue (Marino et al 2017).…”

Section: Power To Develop a Collective Voice Within A Movement Or A Larger Union Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping domestic workers’ organizing globally

Schwenken¹,

Hobden²

2021

Atlanticas Rev Int Est Fem

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Domestic workers face challenges for organizing, e.g. decentralization of the workforce, nature of the employment relationship. This article analyses, based on a multiple country-comparison, how domestic workers organize despite constrictions. We identify three forms of organizing: the trade union model and the association model (Shireen Ally). We propose, though, an additional third model, the ‘hybrid type’: domestic workers organize ‘amongst themselves’ in associations and at the same time these associations are linked to or integrated into trade unions, which provides representation, services and contact with other workers. Related to this finding, we see a trend of an ‘emerging trade unionism’. Which means that we tend to find more trade union-related forms of organizing than a decade ago. One explanatory factor is the “governance struggle” of winning the International Labour Organization’s Convention “Decent Work for Domestic Workers” in 2011, which led to an increased collaboration and trust-building between organized domestic workers and trade unions.

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Section: Power To Develop a Collective Voice Within A Movement Or A Larger Union Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping domestic workers’ organizing globally

Schwenken¹,

Hobden²

2021

Atlanticas Rev Int Est Fem

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“…In Germany, IG BAU set up the European Migrant Workers Union in 2004 – a transnational union for migrants in construction (Hardy et al, 2012: 358), while the service workers union ver.di also worked to develop migrant centres in a number of German cities (Kip, 2017). In the Netherlands, unions representing the public sector (AbvaKabo) and cleaners (FNV Bondgenoten) sought to organize undocumented migrant workers in the latter part of the 2000s (Eleveld and Van Hooren, 2018).…”

Section: Labour Market Enforcement In Contexts Of Social Partner Embementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the Swedish TUCUM has foundered in the face of union reluctance to push for regularization, as migrant activists see unions as more interested in attacking employers than helping them get legal status (Mešić, 2017: 316). Similarly, several Dutch unions have attempted to organize unauthorized migrant workers, but these efforts have been undermined in part by unions’ unwillingness to embrace regularization – a move that would jeopardize their relationships with public officials and their place in the corporatist system (Eleveld and Van Hooren, 2018: 607; Günther, 2011). In Germany, lack of funding and resistance by some in the union movement led to most migrant centres being shut down (Kip, 2017).…”

Section: Labour Market Enforcement In Contexts Of Social Partner Embementioning

confidence: 99%

Policing markets: The role of the social partners in internal immigration enforcement

Morgan

2020

Journal of European Social Policy

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In recent decades, governments have made labour markets sites of immigration enforcement through employer sanctions and other measures. In some countries, unions and employers’ associations facilitate implementation of these initiatives, while in others they openly or tacitly resist cooperation. This paper explores these patterns of cooperation and resistance through analysis of six countries. The method used is qualitative comparative analysis, using primary and secondary sources that include newspaper coverage, government reports, union documents and scholarly accounts. The explanation centres on the degree of social partner embeddedness in government decision-making and economic management. In countries with institutionalized, coordinated relationships between the social partners and the state, this coordination extends to implementation of employers’ sanctions. In systems with less institutionalized cooperation, employers and unions are less likely to assist the immigration control objectives of state officials. These practices also affect migrants’ ability to live within a society, making them not only a form of immigration control, but also important for migrant wellbeing.

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“…Such videos are by no means rare; a search of YouTube for the term “Sovereign Citizen” reveals hundreds—if not thousands—of channels and videos related to the subject. While many of these are discussions—and mockery—of SovCit beliefs, many more are produced by movement adherents discussing their strategies, struggles, and beliefs (MaKaElectric, 2012 ).…”

Section: The Sovereign Ascendant: the 2008 Collapse And The Rise Of The Radical Citizenmentioning

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The Sovereign Ascendant: Financial Collapse, Status Anxiety, and the Rebirth of the Sovereign Citizen Movement

Hodge

2019

Front. Sociol.

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As many scholars have noted, periods of economic or social unrest often bring about the growth or resurgence of extremist social movements on both the political left and the right. The 1990s saw the rise of the American militia movement, largely in response to the emergence of international organizations like the North American Free Trade Agreement, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and an increasingly internationalist American administration. Earlier still, during the agricultural depression of the 1920s, the chaotic social, political, and economic order proved to be fertile ground for the resurgent Ku Klux Klan. In the years immediately following the global financial collapse of 2008, the United States-and to a lesser extent Canada-saw the resurgence of the Sovereign Citizen movement, a puzzling, conspiratorial social, and political philosophy that sought to emancipate its adherents from the tyranny of an oppressive, dictatorial, and increasingly unstable system of corrupt and illegitimate states. This paper examines the origins of the Sovereign Citizen movement and illustrates the ways in which the movement's members deploy a radical concept of citizenship, rooted in conspiratorial thinking and often in direct conflict with the state to help manage status anxiety and uncertainty.

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The Governmentalization of the Trade Union and the Potential of Union-Based Resistance. The Case of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in the Netherlands Making Rights Claims

Cited by 14 publications

References 41 publications

Mapping domestic workers’ organizing globally

Mapping domestic workers’ organizing globally

Policing markets: The role of the social partners in internal immigration enforcement

The Sovereign Ascendant: Financial Collapse, Status Anxiety, and the Rebirth of the Sovereign Citizen Movement

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