‘Surrounded with so much uncertainty’: asylum seekers and manufactured precarity in Australia

Kooy, John van; Bowman, Dina

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2018.1427563

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“…Low participation rates of people seeking asylum in employment may be related to visa restrictions; however, it is also certainly related to lacking formal recognition of qualification and work experience, combined with very little government assistance. Lower participation rates have been identified in entry‐level roles and apprenticeships with many people seeking asylum employed on a casual basis (Van Kooy & Bowman, ). These findings suggest that opportunities exist for the government to increase employment rates in people seeking asylum particularly through targeted entry‐level employment and workplace training programmes.…”

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Experiences of homelessness by people seeking asylum in Australia: A review of published and “grey” literature

2019

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This review examines the current published and "grey" literature relating to the experiences of homelessness by people seeking asylum within Australia. While many people seeking asylum have experienced homelessness during their flight, inadequate and unaffordable housing are a feature of the settlement experience for a large number of new arrivals to Australia, putting at risk their successful settlement. This study aims to explore the factors influencing access to stable housing. A systematic review of the academic literature and a search of the grey literature identified 11 articles and 20 documents related to homelessness and people seeking asylum in Australia. The academic literature included a variety of methods and approaches to the investigation of the experience of homelessness in Australia. The grey literature was more practice based, including evaluation and research reports, submissions, and newsletters. Findings suggest that experiences of homelessness are multifaceted and have a range of influences, including policy, financial stress, lack ofaccess to education and employment, and a lack of affordable and suitable housing. Any solutions to address homelessness need to be similarly diverse. Discrimination from real estate agents and employers was also identified as a barrier to housing for many people seeking asylum, an issue that will need to be addressed at a systematic level. The lack of research published in the academic literature means that although there may be some programmes or solutions

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Experiences of homelessness by people seeking asylum in Australia: A review of published and “grey” literature

2019

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“…As recent works have demonstrated migrants and especially refugees are particularly exposed to precarious processes, expanding from the labour market to most aspects of life (Lewis, Dwyer & Hodkinson 2015;Waite et al 2015;Casas-Cortés 2017;Nunn et al 2017;Schierup & Jørgensen 2017;Strauss 2018;Kooy & Bowman 2019). Given the layered insecurities and vulnerabilities produced by the entanglement of immigration and labour regimes, Lewis, Dwyer and Hodkinson (2015) suggest the multi-dimensional notion of 'hyper-precarity' as a relevant term concerning refugees, as it includes pre-migration as well as journeying experiences and future concerns.…”

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“…Elaborating on this perspective, we highlight the importance and potential of existing or emerging social relations and connections enacted also through hyper-precarious processes in practice. Thus, in shifting the focus from the socio-legal and bureaucratic production of hyper-precarity to everyday attempts of creating a common ground for 'struggle, agency and contestation beyond the individual migrant' (Jørgensen 2015: 3), we explore the question of agency and resistance produced through social relations rather than an individual coping strategy or skill (Kooy & Bowman 2019).…”

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‘ARE WE GOING TO STAY REFUGEES?’ Hyper-precarious Processes in and Beyond the Danish Integration Programme

Shapiro

Jørgensen

2021

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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The Danish welfare state is designed to protect and support people in need. However, refugees experience hyper-precarity related to a restrictive socio-legal regime connecting them to the state. Based on 4 months of ethnographic fieldwork in and around a local community organisation, including 35 qualitative interviews with refugees, social workers and volunteers, the article examines hyper-precarious processes constituted by a nexus of immigration and labour regimes. Theoretically, the article draws on the concepts of precarity and social navigation, which centre the analysis on the interface of agency and moving social forces, while advocating for an analysis sensitive to context-specific variations of everyday practice. By empirically exploring how refugees navigate complex state connections and expectations of self-reliance articulated in the Integration Programme, the article contributes to an understanding of hyper-precarity as ambiguous processes producing subjectivities of not only victimisation and despair but also fragile spaces of sociality, hope and resistance in rural contexts.

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“…Ample evidence exists that the lives of asylum-seekers are shaped by poverty, social exclusion and even destitution (Crawley et al, 2011;Dwyer et al, 2016;Lewis et al, 2014aLewis et al, , 2014bLewis and Waite, 2015;Waite and Lewis, 2017;Allsopp et al, 2014;Van Kooy and Bowman, 2018). In the past, efforts to tackle these three phenomena, when experienced by workers generally, focused on including labour in globalised fields of production (Hickey and Du Toit, 2007).…”

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“…The legally defined labour market access of asylum-seekers in Austria, Finland and Italy does not, however, guarantee that this group of persons is not at risk of becoming employed in precarious jobs. Indeed, news coverage (The Guardian, 2018;Yle News, 2017;Helsinki Times, 2017;Der Standard, 2018b), reports (Allsopp et al, 2014) and academic material (Bales and Mayblin, 2018;Lewis and Waite, 2015;Lewis et al, 2014aLewis et al, , 2014bVan Kooy and Bowman, 2018;Waite, 2017;Waite and Lewis, 2017) suggest that asylum-seekers are likely to fall prey to precarious working conditions precisely because of their particular vulnerabilities, which are exacerbated by the framing of labour market access by national legislation (Anderson, 2010).…”

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Asylum-seekers and the ‘hyper-precarity trap’ in Austria, Finland and Italy

Schenner

Cavanna

Ollus

2019

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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Drawing on both semi-structured interviews and desk-based research, this article contributes to a more nuanced understanding of how asylum-seekers may find themselves trapped in conditions of 'hyper-precarity' in Austria, Finland and Italy, and how their vulnerabilities compare to those of other groups of workers. The first section of the article explains the different histories of Austria, Finland and Italy in terms of hosting asylum-seekers, before outlining the recent labour market dynamics of each of these countries. This is followed by a theoretical discussion of the different elements constituting the 'hyper-precarity trap' as experienced by asylum-seekers. These elements include discussions of precarity, vulnerability and law. The third section explains how the interviews and desk-based research were conducted and analysed. The fourth and final section of the article presents findings and their implications. Ré sumé En se basant sur des interviews semi-structurées et des recherches documentaires, cet article entend contribuer à une compréhension plus nuancée de la manière dont les demandeurs d'asile peuvent se retrouver piégés dans des conditions d'« hyper-précarité » en Autriche, en Finlande et en Italie, et de leurs éléments de vulnérabilité comparés à ceux d'autres groupes de travailleurs. La première partie de l'article explique les antécédents différents de l'Autriche, la Finlande et de l'Italie en termes d'accueil des demandeurs d'asile, avant de décrire les évolutions récentes du marché du travail dans chacun de ces pays. L'article propose ensuite un examen théorique des différents éléments qui constituent le « piège à l'hyper-précarité » tel que le vivent les demandeurs d'asile. Il analyse ainsi les notions de précarité et de vulnérabilité, ainsi que la législation en la

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‘Surrounded with so much uncertainty’: asylum seekers and manufactured precarity in Australia

Cited by 44 publications

References 45 publications

Experiences of homelessness by people seeking asylum in Australia: A review of published and “grey” literature

Experiences of homelessness by people seeking asylum in Australia: A review of published and “grey” literature

‘ARE WE GOING TO STAY REFUGEES?’ Hyper-precarious Processes in and Beyond the Danish Integration Programme

Asylum-seekers and the ‘hyper-precarity trap’ in Austria, Finland and Italy

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