Inclusion and Exclusion in Europe: Migration, Work and Employment Perspectives (Studies in European Political Science)

ISBN 10: 1786605392 / ISBN 13: 9781786605399

Published by ECPR Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inclusion and Exclusion in Europe: Migration, Work and Employment Perspectives (Studies in European Political Science)
• Publisher: ECPR Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786605392
• ISBN 13: 9781786605399
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Recent decades have seen the EU grappling with a major struggle between the securitization of its external borders and demand for exploitable and disposable cheap workforce in various sectors. As a result, the EU has multiplied its borders by pushing them both outwards and inwards, and the distinction between migrants’ status as regular and irregular, legal and illegal, citizen and non-citizen, has been continuously portrayed as black and white. This produces and sustains an analytical, political and practical divide that often obscures commonalities in workers’ dispossession and is an obstacle to unified struggles to secure workers’ rights.

This volume moves beyond a perspective of migrants’ exclusion and inclusion as solely a product of migration processes. It contextualizes migration in the larger transformations of the local, national and transnational labour markets and relations that point to the ongoing precarization of working lives.

These processes of inclusion are methodologically approached through exclusion at macro, micro and meso levels. This positions the ethnographically documented experiences of immigrant labourers in the challenges of contemporary labour and migratory regimes, and traces new forms of collective response and contestation emerging in these reconfiguring contexts.

About the Authors

Olena Fedyuk is a Research Affiliate at the Center for Policy Studies. She holds a PhD from the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at CEU. Her main academic interests include transnational migration, care-work, labor transformations, female employment policies and migration policies. Her dissertation was an ethnography of Ukrainian female migration to Italy and tackled questions of transnational moral economies, distant motherhood and care regimes.

Paul Stewart is Professor of the Sociology of Work and Employment at the University of Strathclyde. He is co-ordinator of the Marie Curie programme "Changing Employment", a 4 million Euro FP7 ITN programme (2012-2016) with eight partner European universities and range of European social partners.