Precarious Work? Migrants' Narratives of Coping with Working Conditions in the Danish Labour Market

• Autorzy: Doris Pljevaljcic-Simkunas , Trine Lund Thomsen
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This article deals with migrants' experiences of precarious working conditions in the cleaning and construction industries in the Danish labour market as seen from their perspective. The experiences are retained through biographical narrative interviews with migrant workers from Central and Eastern Europe and are used to gain an understanding of the concrete strategies they apply when coping with their short-term contracts, demanding working hours, risk of unemployment and other insecurities. Migrants' experiences of precarity and insecurity in their work is confirmed, to some degree, in numerous research studies. However, the resistance and strategies expressed by the migrant workers in their narratives show that they have also developed specific ways to cope with this precarity. The article contributes to a new understanding of migrants' responses to precarity in which they engage their social and cultural resources to cope with the labour market conditions they face in Denmark. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Decision making under uncertainty; Working condition; Economic immigration; Labour market

PL

Podejmowanie decyzji w warunkach niepewności; Warunki pracy; Imigracja zarobkowa; Rynek pracy

• Czasopismo: Central and Eastern European Migration Review
• Rocznik: 2018
• Tom: 7
• Numer: nr 2
• Strony: 35--51

Twórcy

autor

Doris Pljevaljcic-Simkunas

• Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark

autor

Trine Lund Thomsen

• Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark

Bibliografia

• Agnitsch K., Flora J., Ryan V. (2006). Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: The Interactive Effects on Community Action. Community Development 37(1): 36-51.
• Alberti G., Holgate J., Tapia M. (2013). Organising Migrants As Workers or As Migrant Workers? Intersectionality, Trade Unions and Precarious Work. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 24(22): 4132-4148.
• Andersen S. K., Felbo-Kolding J. (2013). Danske Virksomheders Brug af Østeuropæisk Arbejdskraft. Copenhagen: Copenhagen University, FAOS. Online: http://faos.ku.dk/pdf/boger-og-rapporter/2013/Danske_virksomheders_brug_... (accessed: 17 October 2018).
• Anderson B., Ruhs M., Rogaly B., Spencer S. (2006). Fair Enough? Central and East European Migrants in Low-Wage Employment in the UK. COMPAS Project Report. Oxford: University of Oxford.
• Arnholtz J., Andersen S. K. (2016). Udenlandske Virksomheder og Udstationerede Arbejdstagere i Bygge- og Anlægsbranchen. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, FAOS.
• Arnholtz J., Hansen N. W. (2013). Labour Market Specific Institutions and the Working Conditions of Labour Migrants: The Case of Polish Migrant Labour in the Danish Labour Market. Economic and Industrial Democracy 34(3): 401-422.
• Bernstein D. (1986). The Subcontracting of Cleaning Work: A Case in the Casualisation of Labour. The Sociological Review 34(2): 396-422.
• Berry J. W. (2005). Acculturation: Living Successfully in Two Cultures. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 29(6): 697-712.
• Black R., Engbersen G., Okólski M., Pantîru C. (2010). A Continent Moving West? EU Enlargement and Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
• Bourdieu P. (1986a). Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. London: Routledge.
• Bourdieu P. (1986b). The Forms of Capital, in: J. Richardson (ed.), Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, pp. 214-258. New York: Greenwood.
• Bourdieu P. (1994). Raisons Pratiques. Sur la Théorie de l'Action. Paris: Seuil.
• Broughton A., Green M., Rickard C., Swift S., Eichhorst W., Tobsch V., Tros F. (2016). Precarious Employment in Europe: Patterns, Trends and Policy Strategies. Brussels: European Parliament Directorate General for Internal Policies.
• Bryman A. (2016). Social Research Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Burrell K. (ed.) (2009). Polish Migration to the UK in the 'New' European Union: After 2004. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
• Caro E., Berntsen L., Lillie N., Wagner I. (2015). Posted Migration and Segregation in the European Construction Sector. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 41(10): 1600-1620.
• Caspersen N. (2008). Intragroup Divisions in Ethnic Conflicts: From Popular Grievances to Power Struggles. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 14(2): 239-265.
• Castles S. (2015). Migration, Precarious Work, and Rights: Historical and Current Perspectives, in: C. Schierup, R. Munck, B. Likic-Brboric, A. Neergaard (eds), Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour, pp. 46-67. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Cazes S., Nesporova A., Office I. L. (2003). Labour Markets in Transition: Balancing Flexibility and Security in Central and Eastern Europe. Geneva: International Labour Office.
• Cevea (2016). The Gender-Segregated Labour Market. Tænketanken, Sundhedskartellet, FOA, SL OG Dansk Socialrådgiver forening. Online: https://cevea.dk/filer/dokumenter/analyser/Det_koensopdelte_arbejdsmarke... (accessed: 19 July 2018).
• Ciupijus Z. (2011). Mobile Central and Eastern Europeans in Britain: Successful European Union Citizens and Disadvantaged Labour Migrants? Work, Employment & Society 25(3): 540-550.
• Crenshaw K. (1989). Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum 1(8): 139-167.
• Doogan K. (2009). New Capitalism? Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Doogan K. (2015). Precarity: Minority Condition or Majority Experience?, in: D. della Porta (ed.), The New Social Division Making and Unmaking Precariousness, pp. 43-62. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
• DST (2017). Indvandrere i Danmark 2017. Copenhagen: Danmarks Statistik.
• DST (2018). Østeuropæiske Indvandrere er i Beskæftigelse i Næsten Lige så høj Grad Som Eesteuropæere. Online: https://www.dst.dk/Site/Dst/Udgivelser/nyt/GetAnalyse.aspx?cid=30609 (accessed: 19 July 2018).
• Gsir S. (2014). Social Interactions Between Immigrants and Host Country Populations: A Country-of-Origin Perspective. INTERACT Research Report 2014/02. Florence: European University Institute.
• Hoerning E. M. (2006). Fra Biografisk Metoder til Biografiforskning. Dansk Sociologi 12(3): 117-125.
• Hviid K., Flyvholm M. A. (2010). Udenlandsk Arbejdskraft i Norden: Sammenfatning af Landerapporter fra Forprojektet til Nordisk Ministerråds Globaliseringsprojekt. København: Nordisk Ministerråd.
• Kalleberg A. L. (2011). Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s to 2000s. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Lewis H., Dwyer P., Hodkinson S., Waite L. (2015). Hyper-Precarious Lives. Progress in Human Geography 39(5): 580-600.
• Lichtenberg E., Juul J. S. (2016). Danskernes Arbejdsmiljø. Kvinder er Mere Udsat for Cikane på Jobbet. Copenhagen: Arbejderbevægelsens Erhvervsråd.
• Massey D. S., Durand J., Pren K. A. (2016). The Precarious Position of Latino Immigrants in the United States. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 666(1): 91-109.
• McDowell L. (2015). Class, Gender, and Space: Scale and the Production of Difference and Inequality, in: B. Anderson, V. Hughes (eds), Citizenship and Its Others, pp. 184-190. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• McDowell L., Batnitzky A., Dyer S. (2009). Precarious Work and Economic Migration: Emerging Immigrant Divisions of Labour in Greater London's Service Sector. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33(1): 3-25.
• McKay S., Jefferys S., Paraksevopoulou A., Keles J. (2012). Study on Precarious Work and Social Rights. London: London Metropolitan University, Working Lives Research Institute.
• Munck R., Schierup C., Delgado Wise R. (2011). Migration, Work, and Citizenship in the New World Order. Globalizations 8(3): 249-260.
• Neilson B., Rossiter N. (2008). Precarity As a Political Concept or Fordism As Exception. Theory, Culture & Society 25(7-8): 51-72.
• OECD (2017). Average Wages (Indicator), doi: 10.1787/cc3e1387-en (accessed: 28 February 2017).
• Ollus N. (2016). Forced Flexibility and Exploitation: Experiences of Migrant Workers in the Cleaning Industry. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies 6(1): 25-45.
• Pajnik M. (2016). 'Wasted Precariat': Migrant Work in European Societies. Progress in Development Studies (2): 159-172.
• Pajnik M., Anthias F. (2014). Work and the Challenges of Belonging: Migrants in Globalizing Economies. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Peirce C. S. (1979). Collected Papers. Cambridge, MA: University of Harvard Press.
• Putnam R. D. (2000). Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital, in: L. Crothers, C. Lockhart (eds), Culture and Politics, pp. 223-234. New York: Springer.
• Rasmussen M. (2015). Flere Østeuropæiske Arbejdstagere er en God Nyhed for Danmark. Copenhagen: Tænketanken EUROPA (ThinkEuropa) NOTAT 26th March. Online: http://thinkeuropa.dk/oekonomi/flere-oesteuropaeiske-arbejdstagere-er-en... (accessed: 19 July 2018).
• Rasmussen S., Refslund B., Sørensen O. H., Larsen T. P. (2016). Reducing Precarious Work in Europe Through Social Dialogue: The Case of Denmark. Aalborg: Aalborg University, PRECAWO.
• Refslund B. (2016). Intra-European Labour Migration and Deteriorating Employment Relations in Danish Cleaning and Agriculture: Industrial Relations Under Pressure from EU8/2 Labour Inflows? Economic and Industrial Democracy 37(4): 597-621.
• Rodgers G. (1989). Precarious Work in Western Europe: The State of the Debate, in: G. Rodgers, J. Rodgers (eds), Precarious Jobs in Labour Market Regulation: The Growth of Atypical Employment in Western Europe, pp. 1-16. Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies.
• Shier M., Graham J., Fukuda E., Turner A. (2016). Predictors of Living in Precarious Housing Among Immigrants Accessing Housing Support Services. Journal of International Migration and Integration 17(1): 173-192.
• Standing G. (1999). Global Labour Flexibility: Seeking Distributive Justice. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Standing G. (2011). The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
• Standing G. (2014). A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
• STAR (2018). Styrelsen for Arbejdsmarked og Rekruttering, Jobindsats, Udenlandsk Arbejdskraft [Danish Agency for Labour Market and Recruitment]. Online: http://www.jobindsats.dk/jobindsats/db/DatabankViewer/ChooseMeasure?Bene... (accessed: 19 July 2018).
• Thomsen T. L. (2006). Immigrant Entrepreneurship As Gendered Social Positions. Aalborg: Aalborg University.
• Thörnquist A. (2015). East-West Labour Migration and the Swedish Cleaning Industry: A Matter of Immigrant Competition? Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press.
• Vallas S. (2015). Accounting for Precarity: Recent Studies of Labor Market Uncertainty. Contemporary Sociology 44(4): 463-469.
• Waite L. (2009). A Place and Space for a Critical Geography of Precarity? Geography Compass 3(1): 412-433.
• Watson T. J. (2003). Sociology, Work and Industry. London: Routledge.

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.17467/ceemr.2018.09