Free mobility, locked rights: the posting of construction workers from Portugal

Marques, Joana S.; Veloso, Luísa; Oliveira, Catarina Sales

doi:10.1080/17450101.2020.1863552

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“…For most posted workers, migration is not the aim, employment is, whereas, for the temporary agency workers, long-term or permanent stay in the host country is the objective. Our findings contribute to the literature that focuses on mobile workers' barriers and differential treatment (Alberti, Danaj 2017;Andrijasevic, Sacchetto 2016;Lillie 2016;Marques et al 2021) by exposing temporary EU mobile workers' vulnerabilities in terms of their labor and social rights.…”

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confidence: 61%

“…This study was conducted when the UK was a full EU Member State. The experiences of temporary EU migrants working in low-skill, low-wage industries in the UK indicate that temporary mobility pathways such as posting and temporary agency work produce and sustain inequalities that strongly challenge the equal rights presupposition of EU citizenship Marques et al 2021). The UK's decision to leave the EU will further restrict worker mobility from EU countries under conditions similar to the point-based criteria applied to third-country nationals.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The pathways they undertake influence EU workers' access to social rights as precarious temporary EU workers have limited or no access to the host country welfare system (Alberti 2016;Heindlmaier, Blauberger 2017;Marques et al 2021). EU migrants are often unaware of their social rights and would rather seek solutions privately or in their home country than try to access the host country's welfare system (Ehata, Seeleib Kaiser 2017;Godin 2020).…”

Section: Temporary Eu Workers In the European Single Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Intra-EU Mobility: The Employment and Welfare Experience of Temporary EU Workers in the United Kingdom

Danaj

Çaro

2021

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This article explores the mobility pathways of temporary EU workers and the implications that transnational temporary mobility has on their labor market outcomes and access to social rights and benefits. The experiences of temporary EU migrants working in the UK show that despite the narrative of the borderlessness of the common European labor market, access to host countries’ labor market and welfare is shaped by their employment status and welfare eligibility criteria that produce worker precariousness. Temporary EU workers’ experiences are characterized by employment insecurity and unequal access to labor and social rights, effects which might increase since the UK has left the EU.

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Intra-EU Mobility: The Employment and Welfare Experience of Temporary EU Workers in the United Kingdom

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Çaro

2021

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“…Although global mobilities in terms of people, products and information have become prominent features of today's highly interconnected world, many individuals, objects and ideas are not given free passage across national boundaries. As an example, the management of labor mobility has been one of the major challenges in European politics over the past decades (Marques et al, 2021). In this context, the ways some individuals' movements have been normalized, while others' have been criminalized have been discussed (Glick Schiller and Salazar, 2013;Adey et al, 2021).…”

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Unexplored themes in expatriate management: inspirations from the new mobilities paradigm

Guttormsen

Lauring

2022

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a different perspective on the concept of global mobility and apply the multifaceted concept in proposing new themes to explore in expatriate management research.Design/methodology/approachThis study draws upon the theoretical underpinnings relating to the New Mobilities paradigm from sociology to outline a new perspective on global mobility and thereby describe novel themes to include in future expatriate management studies.FindingsThis study identifies four themes in need of further development within the expatriate management research field: materiality, infrastructure and access, inequality and immobility and emotional dynamics. Within each of these themes, this study presents several examples of research questions that can provide new thrust to the theory development of expatriate management research.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first attempt to draw on central ideas in the New Mobilities paradigm to propose a future research agenda for expatriate management studies. This study aims to enhance the study of “mobility” in new and unorthodox ways.

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“…Recent studies show that more than 90% of multinational companies are currently using long-term assigned business expatriates (Finnacord, 2019; KPMG, 2020). In an increasingly diverse global mobility and international work scenario (Bonache et al, 2021; Jooss et al, 2020; McNulty & Brewster, 2019), scarce empirical evidence exists concerning the way and extent to which international work assignments are being used and deployed by Portuguese companies (Câmara, 2011; Marques et al, 2021; Martins & Diaconescu, 2014; Pinheiro et al, 2015), namely, through the use of business assigned expatriates, that can be defined as legally working individuals who reside temporarily in a country of which they are not a citizen in order to accomplish a career-related goal, being relocated abroad either by an organization or by self-initiation, or directly employed within the host country (McNulty & Selmer, 2017, p. 30).…”

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Recruiting Business Expatriates in Portugal: The Moderating Role of Employee Willingness

Coelho

2022

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economie

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The present study examines the practices that multinational companies located in a small, open and peripheral European economy (Portugal) are acting to build talent pools for expatriate assignments. The role of employee willingness (to go) is explored as a dimension influencing the existing firm staffing practices’ success. By using a Portuguese sample, the study examines whether prior findings in mature economies and consolidated multinational companies can be generalised to peripheral and less-developed international business settings. Five business contexts and 24 expatriate cases were considered to ground empirical analysis. The prevalence of internal recruitment practices, informal and closed systems and staffing criteria, and less established international mobility and staffing experience, suggest the existence of critical differences with the current best-of-breed practices. Study findings indicate that divergent willingness profiles operate as moderating factors of firm propensity to use international work to support expansion goals. A typology of business expatriate willingness profiles ( conformist expatriates, trajectory-focused expatriates and disrupted expatriates) is proposed to showcase expatriation assignments as a contemporary socioeconomic heterogenetic condition.

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Free mobility, locked rights: the posting of construction workers from Portugal

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

Intra-EU Mobility: The Employment and Welfare Experience of Temporary EU Workers in the United Kingdom

Intra-EU Mobility: The Employment and Welfare Experience of Temporary EU Workers in the United Kingdom

Unexplored themes in expatriate management: inspirations from the new mobilities paradigm

Recruiting Business Expatriates in Portugal: The Moderating Role of Employee Willingness

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