With a Little Help from My Friends: Social-Network Job Search and Overqualification among Recent Intra-EU Migrants Moving from East to West

Leschke, Janine; Weiss, Silvana

doi:10.1177/0950017020926433

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“…Hence their social capital is likely to have facilitated obtaining a job but at the cost of being in a job below their educational levels. The link with linguistic proficiency is less clear as in fact those in hospitality where many find themselves despite having a reasonable linguistic level (Leschke & Weiss, 2020). Attitudes to the disparity in status may differ according to their migratory projects and the extent to which this is aligned with social mobility and status in the country of origin.…”

Section: Deskilling and Devaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered Labour

Christou

Kofman

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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As we saw in Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-91971-9_1, the gendered transfer of labour globally and within Europe has been the focus of attention and the core of the discourse concerning the feminization of migration. Whilst gendered labour migrations are not new, their composition, extent, and how we analyse them, theoretically and methodologically, have evolved. As data show, migrants and especially females, are heavily concentrated within certain sectors producing not just a migrant division of labour (Wills et al., 2010) but a gendered migrant division of labour. Some sectors such as household services (domestic work and care) or social reproductive labour are not only predominantly female but, especially in Southern Europe, overwhelmingly filled by migrant women. Although this type of work has attracted much attention in studies of female labour migration, other sectors, both lesser skilled and more skilled, have also relied heavily on female migrant labour but have been much less studied. Mirjana Morokvasic (2011) questioned the basis of our preoccupation about migrant women as subaltern and victims, exclusively filling low skilled sectors. Thus domestic and care workers have become the emblematic figures of globalised migrations in stark contrast to the easily mobile male IT worker (Kofman, 2013). This is not to deny that domestic and care work globally employ more migrant women than any other sector, and that demand has not grown in response to the inadequacies of public provision across different welfare regimes, leading to the search for cheap solutions to fulfil reproductive needs by using migrant workers, including men. However it does raise issues around our lack of attention to other low skilled sectors such as hospitality and contract and commercial cleaning in hospitals, offices and public spaces, which also employ large numbers of migrants. Skilled labour, especially in welfare sectors, such as education, health and social work is also sourced globally to make good shortfalls in professional reproductive labour (Kofman & Raghuram, 2015). Thus at all skill levels migrant women are employed disproportionately in diverse sectors of social reproduction in sustaining the wellbeing of the household and of society more generally.

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Section: Deskilling and Devaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered Labour

Christou

Kofman

2022

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“…One factor accounting for this inconsistency is the context of labour market (Tian and Lin, 2016). For example, migrants are usually work in the enclave labour market (Leschke and Weiss, 2020). Due to this feature, strong ties are more effective to help migrants to get a job in this enclave labour market.…”

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Education and inequality in employment in China and Japan in 2000s: a social network perspective

Fung

2020

IJSSP

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PurposeThis paper attempts to discover whether or not social networks work in the same way in different sectors of the labour market in the same society, using data from the 2008 Asian Social Survey. Labour markets in some societies are segmented; there are two segments in the labour market, namely, the core sector and the peripheral sector. The practices of each sector differs from the others. Some sectors employ CME labour markets, while others favour LME labour markets (Kanbayashi and Takenoshita, 2014). In other words, we can find both CME and LME labour market in one society.Design/methodology/approachSince Granovetter’s (1973) pioneer study, scholars are interested in investigating in what way social network influence our job searching outcomes. However, these researchers have not yet yielded consistent results. Scholars argue that the institutional context of labour market can shape the network impacts on our job search outcome (Chen, 2014; Chua, 2011).FindingsSurprisingly, this paper finds that there is no room for the use of personal contact in the public sector in both China and Japan. But, mean status is positively related to annual income in the private companies sector in both Japan and China. The significant influences of mean status in the private sectors in both China and Japan reflect the reinforcing of existing social inequality structure. This is because as the status of contact can facilitate respondents' job attainment process, those who are already in higher social status are more likely than those who are in the bottom of the social strata, to get a better job with the help from their network members.Originality/valueThe above findings show us that social network can exert various impacts on people's job searching process even in the same society. This is because it is possible that the labour market are segmented. These segments have very different practices. This difference attributes to the inconsistent findings of network effects on occupational attainment process. Therefore, it is essential to locate which labour market respondents are in, and the features of this labour market. This can help us know more about the use and effectiveness of network in different types of labour markets.

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“…Paralelamente, tem sido reportado que a sobrequalificação impacta a saúde e o bem-estar destes indivíduos (Crollard et al, 2012). Além disso, os estudos indicam que os imigrantes estão em maior risco de sobrequalificação, visto que enfrentam diversos desafios (e.g., reconhecimento das suas qualificações, barreiras linguísticas), apesar dos estudos sobre a sobrequalificação no contexto das migrações serem ainda escassos (Leschke & Weiss, 2020). Acresce a isto que, a literatura sobre sobrequalificação revela falta de convergência concetual, assim como uma diversidade de operacionalizações do conceito (Johnson et al, 2002), evidenciando a necessidade de mais estudos que revelem convergências sobre este construto.…”

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Adaptação do Questionário de Sobrequalificação Cognitiva Percebida (QSCP) para a Língua Portuguesa: Uma Abordagem Mista para Avaliar a Validade de Construto no Contexto das Migrações

Nascimento¹,

Roberto²,

Santos³

2022

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A sobrequalificação percebida é alvo de debate ao longo dos anos. Apesar de relevante no contexto das migrações, devido aos riscos da experiência migratória, os estudos que a focam são escassos. O estudo 1 valida para o contexto português o Questionário de Sobrequalificação Cognitiva Percebida (QSCP) através de uma amostra de conveniência (N=142). O estudo 2 com abordagem qualitativa explora as relações entre sobrequalificação percebida, satisfação no trabalho e justiça organizacional entre imigrantes e não-migrantes, através de entrevistas semiestruturadas (amostra de conveniência, N=27). Os resultados sugerem uma estrutura unifatorial adequada do QSCP, com boa consistência interna e validade convergente e discriminante. No estudo 2, os imigrantes apresentam mais satisfação profissional quando existe sobrequalificação percebida voluntária, se identificam com o país de acolhimento e residem nele há mais de 10 anos. Estudos futuros devem explorar o modelo teórico proposto para o contexto das migrações, e respetivos moderadores.

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With a Little Help from My Friends: Social-Network Job Search and Overqualification among Recent Intra-EU Migrants Moving from East to West

Cited by 30 publications

References 39 publications

Gendered Labour

Gendered Labour

Education and inequality in employment in China and Japan in 2000s: a social network perspective

Adaptação do Questionário de Sobrequalificação Cognitiva Percebida (QSCP) para a Língua Portuguesa: Uma Abordagem Mista para Avaliar a Validade de Construto no Contexto das Migrações

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