Wasted precariat: migrant work in European societies

Pajnik, Mojca (author)

This article discusses migrants' experiences of European migration-labour. It shows how precariousness is materialized in migrants' work and lives. I show how the subordination of migrants to the demands of the (global) market shapes the work of "third country migrants" as precarious in European economies. Specific migration policies as well as labour processes and their regulation construct migrants as "wasted precariat", in line with Bauman's (2004) notion of "wasted humans". This process occurs at the intersection of migrant workers' immigration status, the governance of immigration and labour relations as well as features of the industries that employ migrant workers.

• Language: English
• Keywords: European union, Labour migration, precariat
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Year: 2016
• Number of pages: Str. 159-172
• Numbering: Vol. 16, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-84526
• UDC: 331.556(4)
• ISSN on article: 1477-027X
• DOI: 10.1177/1464993415623130
• COBISS.SI-ID: 33928797
• Publication date in RUL: 29.08.2016

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Progress in development studies
• Publisher: Sage
• ISSN: 1477-027X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 518315545

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: prekarno delo, prekariat, Evropska unija, Delovne migracije