Migrants and Labour Markets
The skills and labour of migrants are often promoted as being of significant benefit to national economies. Yet there is also anxiety both at potential displacement of citizens from labour markets and the exploitation of migrants in low-wage sectors. Considerations of migrant labour bring to the fore the political construction of who counts as a migrant worker. This has implications for research methods and analysis as well as for policy. Research in this area critically examines the construction of migrant labour, the demand for migrant labour, and the position of migrant workers in labour markets.
Further detail on the issues that this cluster of research will tackle - Link
Other Activities
- Researching Illegality in Immigration (Special Issue) Click here for outline.
- Who Cares? Reseraching and Meeting the Needs of Migrant Care Workers. Click here for outline.
Previous Projects
- Changing status, changing lives? The socio-economic impact of EU accession on low wage migrant labour in the UK
- Forced Labour in the UK
- Markets for migrant sex and domestic work
- The return of the guest worker? Temporary migration programmes in theory and practice
- Migrant workers and vulnerable employment - a review of existing data (CoVE)
- Polish and Lithuanian Workers: Opportunities and Challenges for Trades Unions
- Filipinos and care work in the UK
Linked Work
- Previous project - Immigrant Work Strategies and Networks (Plus sub projects on Turkey and Ghana)
- Previous project - Integration, Diversity and the Economy