“Since Many of My Friends Were Working in the Restaurant”: the Dual Role of Immigrants’ Social Networks in Occupational Attainment in the Finnish Labour Market

Ahmad, Akhlaq

doi:10.1007/s12134-014-0397-6

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“…Furthermore, if migrants are not recruited with high associated recruitment costs, they usually arrive with mediation of their friends and family members, in other words, through their social networks [50]. While migration scholars have traditionally focused on the positive effects of embeddedness in migrant networks, they increasingly emphasize the negative effects that reliance on migrant networks may foster as well [1,13,32]. In fact, Cranford [11] has shown that dependency on family members may also lead to exploitative situations where family members take advantage of their vulnerable situation.…”

Section: Points Of Vulnerability To Labour Trafficking Related To Migmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Labour trafficking in Chinese restaurants in the Netherlands and the role of Dutch immigration policies. A qualitative analysis of investigative case files

Meeteren

Wiering

2019

Crime Law Soc Change

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Scholars have found that many migrants are vulnerable to exploitation and that there are many immigrants among victims of extreme forms of labour exploitation. In the Global North, empirical studies have scrutinized the link between irregular migration and labour trafficking, yet empirical studies that focus on labour schemes involving regular migrants remain scarce. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of 8 investigative police files of labour trafficking involving regular migrants in the Chinese catering industry in the Netherlands, this study investigates the mechanisms through which exploitation comes about and is sustained. It is concluded that exploitation is the result of the ways in which both the employers and the victims manoeuvre the space provided by immigration policies. Employer-bounded residence and work permits emerged as an especially important contributor to the initiation and continuation of exploitative situations. Policymakers should be highly aware of the vulnerabilities of temporary labour migrants' positions created by such policy arrangements. Future research is needed in order to create a better understanding of how exploitative work situations develop and are sustained, and the role different factors such as immigration policies play in such processes.

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Section: Points Of Vulnerability To Labour Trafficking Related To Migmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, there is a general employer-driven labour scheme. 1 An exception is made for highly skilled workers, for which a special worker-driven scheme was created [51]. Dutch labour migration schemes are laid down in the law 'Wet Arbeid Vreemdelingen'.…”

Section: Regulating Labour Migration In the Netherlandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Labour trafficking in Chinese restaurants in the Netherlands and the role of Dutch immigration policies. A qualitative analysis of investigative case files

Meeteren

Wiering

2019

Crime Law Soc Change

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“…One important point of critique has been its implicit focus on positive outcomes. Increasingly, scholars point at the negative effects that reliance on migrant networks may also foster (Ahmad 2015;Gold 2001;Portes 1998;De Haas 2010). In addition, whereas the migrant network approach traditionally assumes gender-neutrality (Ryan 2011), research has proved this assumption to be incorrect (Côté et al 2015).…”

Section: Revisiting 'Migrant Network' As Facilitators Of Migrationmentioning

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Beyond the ‘Migrant Network’? Exploring Assistance Received in the Migration of Brazilians to Portugal and the Netherlands

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Pereira

2018

Int. Migration & Integration

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This paper explores the tenability of three important critiques to the 'migrant network' approach in migration studies: (1) the narrow focus on kin and community members, which connect prospective migrants in origin countries with immigrants in the destination areas, failing to take due account of sources of assistance beyond the 'migrant network' like institutional or online sources; (2) that it is misleading to assume a general pattern in the role of migrant networks in migration, regardless of contexts of arrival or departure, including the scale and history of migration or the immigration regime; and (3) that 'migrant networks' are not equally relevant to all migrants, and that important differences may exist between labour migrants and other types of migrants like family migrants or students. Drawing on survey data on the migration of Brazilians to Portugal and the Netherlands we find support for these critiques but also reaffirm the relevance of 'migrant networks'.

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“…Difficulties in finding high prestige jobs by Pakistani skilled migrants in Finland have been noted by Ahmad (2015). Liebkind, Larja & Brylka's (2016) experimental study also shows evidence of the (negative) impact of ethnic hierarchies in recruitment of dentists.…”

Section: Intersections Of Social Categories In the Study Of Highly Skmentioning

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Intersecting Experiences: Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Race in the Lives of Highly Skilled Migrants in Finland

Koskela

2019

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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The aim of this article is to study the experiences of highly skilled migrants from an intersectional perspective. Based on a case study of a group of skilled migrants in Finland, this article explores the interplay of various social identities and categorizations in their everyday life. I argue that although class markers are an important element in the self-defined group identification for skilled migrants, they are also subjected to intersecting social categorizations, stereotyping and assumptions based on gender, ethnicity, race and nationality, creating different experiences and belongings for different skilled migrants. Anthias' concept of 'translocational positionality' is used to highlight how these intersections are highly situational, context specific and relative to other actors in the Finnish context.

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“Since Many of My Friends Were Working in the Restaurant”: the Dual Role of Immigrants’ Social Networks in Occupational Attainment in the Finnish Labour Market

Cited by 22 publications

References 18 publications

Labour trafficking in Chinese restaurants in the Netherlands and the role of Dutch immigration policies. A qualitative analysis of investigative case files

Labour trafficking in Chinese restaurants in the Netherlands and the role of Dutch immigration policies. A qualitative analysis of investigative case files

Beyond the ‘Migrant Network’? Exploring Assistance Received in the Migration of Brazilians to Portugal and the Netherlands

Intersecting Experiences: Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Race in the Lives of Highly Skilled Migrants in Finland

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