ABSTRACT This Special Issue explores the directions through which we can take research on the migration industries. In this introduction, we review existing research on migration …
S Bygnes, MB Erdal - Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The 2004 EU extension and the 2008 financial crisis triggered new migration flows within Europe, and subsequent debates about what the novelty of these migration flows consists of …
J Schapendonk - Exploring the Migration Industries, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
This paper approaches the African-European migration industry as a complex web of relations in which different actors liaise, objectives oppose each other, and roles overlap …
S Schaupp - Work, Employment and Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article analyses the interaction of the algorithmic workplace regime and the migration regime in manual work in platform logistics and manufacturing in Germany. Based on …
D McCollum, A Findlay - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The growing commercialisation of migration, often through a multiplicity of labour market intermediaries, is an issue of increasing academic interest. We seek to contribute to an …
Migration is mediated by a range of intermediaries, now more than ever (Xiang and Lindquist, 2014: 124). While there is nothing new about them, scholars generally agree that …
Employment is becoming less secure. In the wealthy economies of the Global North, the traditional permanent job from which a worker could expect to earn a living wage over years …
The issue of exploitative labour practices against migrant workers has been well established in previous work. Yet most research and policy focus on severe forms of exploitation …
There is relatively little empirical research into the geographies of human trafficking, despite its inherent spatiality and the clear benefits of geographical perspectives. An emerging but …