Wilful negligence: migration policy, migrants’ work and the absence of social protection in the UK

Craig, Gary; Wilkinson, Mick

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“…It is important to acknowledge that, apart from the SBS, lower skilled migration, though highly relevant as cheap and flexible labour supply according to the LME rationale, remained more strictly controlled in legislation. In practice, however, low-skills recruitment was largely enabled via other routes including family reunion, students, au pairs, working holidaymakers, and high levels of EU mobility as well as via mechanisms of 'semi-compliance' (Ruhs and Anderson 2010), precarious forms of employment and residence (Anderson 2013), and 'wilful negligence' (Wilkinson and Craig 2011) of informal labour markets.…”

Section: Labour Migration Policies As Institutional Complementarity Imentioning

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Negotiating varieties of capitalism? Crisis and change in contemporary British and German labour migration policies

Paul

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Just a decade ago, the liberal British and cautious German approaches to labour migration policy (LMP) counted as institutional spillovers of two opposed varieties of capitalism. Since 2014, however, Germany has offered one of the most liberal labour migration legislations across the rich world, while the Coalition government in London has severely curbed the rules of admission. Is the explanatory power of capitalist variation already exhausted for comparative labour migration policies? To what extent has the economic crisis disrupted policy paths? By adopting a cultural political economy perspective, this paper examines the interaction of crisis discourses and capitalist varieties in explaining LMP changes. A comparison shows that Britain treats the liberal market economy's openness to foreign workers as a root cause for a deeply felt migration control crisis and seeks to tame firms' profitability strategies with restrictive policies. By contrast, German decision-makers have come to view the skill provision mechanisms of the coordinated market economy as key cure to the perceived demographic crisis, liberalising migration routes alongside this economic coordination model. Overall, the paper dethrones capitalist varieties as seemingly deterministic informants of labour migration policies. Instead, policies have both the aim and capacity to negotiate national capitalisms according to shifting notions of crisis.

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Section: Labour Migration Policies As Institutional Complementarity Imentioning

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Negotiating varieties of capitalism? Crisis and change in contemporary British and German labour migration policies

Paul

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Acts of Parliament (1993 and1996) aimed at restricting asylum applications and limiting migrants' access to public welfare. Source: Author's own compilation based on literature review (Conway, 2007;Geddes, 2003;Hansen, 2017;Kofman, 2002;Wilkinson & Craig, 2011) Chapter 5…”

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“…Recent research has found that migrant workers worked for low pay (100-200GBP per week), longer hours (over 60 hours per week), had no sick pay, paid holidays nor written contracts. Many migrants are overqualified for the jobs they occupy and very often end up living under poor housing conditions (Wilkinson & Craig, 2011). Yet, as Figure 16 shows, the unemployed rate of native-born as compared to foreign-born population was much lower in the UK than in the Netherlands.…”

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“…A result, there has been an increasing number of undocumented migrants, which ranged between 400,000 to over 850,000 in 2007 (Cuadra, 2010a). Like in the Netherlands, undocumented migrants include rejected asylum seekers, who remain after having been refused to settle and become destitute, unable to access most services, other than basic healthcare (Wilkinson & Craig, 2011).…”

Section: Social Security Entitlements For Undocumented Migrants In Thmentioning

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“…Along the directives of the Dublin Convention that developed the regulation of asylum seekers in Europe, the UK also attempted to restrict access to the labour market and the welfare system -e.g. by offering only subsistence benefits through a voucher system or keeping them waiting in detention and removal centres while their applications are processed-in order to reduce the 'attractiveness' of the UK to potential new asylum seekers (Wilkinson & Craig, 2011).…”

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Labour exploitation as corporate crime and harm: outsourcing responsibility in food production and cleaning services supply chains

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2019

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The exploitation of workers can be understood on a spectrum of 'less severe' to 'severe' acts or omissions, where less severe exploitation can create conditions for severe exploitation to develop. Exploitation is not an isolated phenomenon perpetrated solely by 'criminals', but is closely related to developments in the economy, labour markets and society at large. Exploitation is enabled through otherwise legitimate business practices that disadvantageously affect vulnerable workers in product and labour supply chains. In this article, labour exploitation-and ultimately human trafficking-is framed as a form of corporate crime due to the significant role that businesses and supply chains have in facilitating exploitation. This corporate crime lens therefore argues that labour exploitation is driven by common market factors and business processes, which are closely associated with inadequate regulatory oversight of exploitation in local supply chains. The article draws on qualitative, semi-structured interviews conducted with workers and supply chain stakeholders in the UK agri-food industry, as well as the Finnish cleaning industry. Through thematic analysis, the dynamics of industry, labour subcontracting, and a lack of regulatory oversight are discussed, which are framed as key factors that enable exploitation to occur. Ultimately the corporate crime lens emphasises the economic, political and societal context in which exploitation takes place, and by doing so, uncovers the structural nature of such crimes.

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Wilful negligence: migration policy, migrants’ work and the absence of social protection in the UK

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Negotiating varieties of capitalism? Crisis and change in contemporary British and German labour migration policies

Negotiating varieties of capitalism? Crisis and change in contemporary British and German labour migration policies

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Labour exploitation as corporate crime and harm: outsourcing responsibility in food production and cleaning services supply chains

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