The Migrant’s Paradox: street livelihoods and marginal citizenship in Britain

Bouttell, Lauren

doi:10.1080/01419870.2021.1959938

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“…This case shows that affective subjectivities are not exclusively related to living well in Latvia now or in the near future. Aivars' sense of place was open and global (Massey, 1991); his spatial displacement, combined with professional emplacement, gave rise to a different way of living (Hall, 2021). Living well can also mean living in flux, particularly if it is enabled by a sense of security through home ownership.…”

Section: Spaces: Private Public and Representationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK

Lulle

2023

The Sociological Review

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Eastern European migrants’ affective relationship with the idea of working class remains poorly understood. This article demonstrates how neoliberal ideology – which shaped postsocialist change – produces certain affective class processes among Central and Eastern European migrants. Migrants often do not share class ramifications in Latvia or the UK but divert their felt class towards the notion of a better life. The article challenges the ‘East’ and ‘West’ dichotomy found in much contemporary class analysis by examining specific spatiotemporal relations, transformations and subjectivities. The qualitative data derive from my long-term (2010–2018) engagement with Latvian migrants in the UK. I offer nuanced insights into labour migrants’ affective class subjectivities at the bodily scale, spatial scale and temporal scale. This framework helps us understand how class subjectivities shape individuals and societies in Eastern Europe and beyond.

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Section: Spaces: Private Public and Representationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK

Lulle

2023

The Sociological Review

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“…Some recent empirical studies have found that refugees in the UK are more likely to select into self-employment due to discrimination and labor market exclusion (Ram et al, 2022), and the move into entrepreneurship of refugee entrepreneurs in Adelaide (Australia) was an experience driven mostly by necessity in the sense that opening up a business was the only way to entry into the labor market and to actively participate in the host country/region economy (Collins et al, 2017). In addition, it has been found that refugees are more likely to start their ventures or be (often informally) employed in (new) ventures operating in low value-added (Hall, 2020;Kayaoglu, 2020) and the least profitable market sectors (Kloosterman, 2010).…”

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Do refugee inflows contribute to the host countries’ entrepreneurial rates? A dynamic panel data analysis, 2000–2019

Noorbakhsh

Teixeira

2023

JEC

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Purpose This study aims to estimate the impact of refugee inflows on host countries’ entrepreneurial rates. The refugee crisis led to an increased scientific and public policy interest in the impact of refugee inflows on host countries. One important perspective of such an impact, which is still underexplored, is the impact of refugee inflows on host countries entrepreneurial rates. Given the high number of refugees that flow to some countries, it would be valuable to assess the extent to which such countries are likely to reap the benefits from increasing refugee inflows in terms of (native and non-native) entrepreneurial talent enhancement. Design/methodology/approach Resorting to dynamic (two-step system generalized method of moments) panel data estimations, based on 186 countries over the period between 2000 and 2019, this study estimates the impact of refugee inflows on host countries’ entrepreneurial rates, measured by the total early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) rate and the self-employment rate. Findings In general, higher refugee inflows are associated with lower host countries’ TEA rates. However, refugee inflows significantly foster self-employment rates of “medium-high” and “high” income host countries and host countries located in Africa. These results suggest that refugee inflows tend to enhance “necessity” related new ventures and/ or new ventures (from native and non-native population) operating in low value-added, low profit sectors. Originality/value This study constitutes a novel empirical contribution by providing a macroeconomic, quantitative assessment of the impact of refugee from distinct nationalities on a diverse set of host countries' entrepreneurship rates in the past two decades resorting to dynamic panel data models, which enable to address the heterogeneity of the countries and deal with the endogeneity of the variables of the model.

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“…Also, because couriers meet and talk during the waiting time at the frequented restaurants and while waiting to pick up orders made at the "ghost kitchens" or "dark stores", i.e., warehouses set up by one of the largest food delivery platforms, Deliveroo. Despite the massive investments of these platform parasites, in the technology of micro-management and control on the ground by their algorithms, precarious workers can act solidarity that goes beyond advice and offers potentiality for "mutual urbanism" on the street (Hall, 2021), and during the long and unbearable weighting of waiting or as reported by other scholars in "painstaking immobilities" (Urry, 2017, in Popan 2021.…”

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“…The majority of food delivery riders flooding the streets in developed countries are migrants. Their "precarious presence" in Suzanne Hall's (2021) view is one of the "markers of marginalisation", i.e., migrants live and work at the "edge territories" of cities. On the basis that "histories of migration landings in urban peripheries, and immersions in a fragmented labour market intersect to shape the marginal condition" (Hall 2021, p. 116), the focus of this section is to highlight the unheroic resistance of street-based couriers in the face of digitalisation of inequalities.…”

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The Migrant’s Paradox: street livelihoods and marginal citizenship in Britain

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The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK

The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK

Do refugee inflows contribute to the host countries’ entrepreneurial rates? A dynamic panel data analysis, 2000–2019

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