Unpacking (Ir)regular Labour Migration
Selberg, Niklas LU
and Neergaard, Anders
(2024)
In Elgar Handbooks in Migration
p.338-358
- Abstract
- This chapter unpacks the complex and contested nature of ‘irregular labour migration’ and explores the meaning and analytical rigour of this conceptualisation. We discuss four social positions: 1) authorised migrant regular worker, 2) authorised migrant irregular worker, 3) unauthorised migrant irregular worker and 4) unauthorised migrant regular worker. Using the distinctions between informalisation from above and below, respectively, and the notion that irregular work can be the effect of exit as well as exclusion we discuss enabling and restraining factors in relation to these four positions. In entering a dialogue with the distinction between irregular labour and unauthorised migration we focus (ir)regularity of work and (un)authorised... (More)
- This chapter unpacks the complex and contested nature of ‘irregular labour migration’ and explores the meaning and analytical rigour of this conceptualisation. We discuss four social positions: 1) authorised migrant regular worker, 2) authorised migrant irregular worker, 3) unauthorised migrant irregular worker and 4) unauthorised migrant regular worker. Using the distinctions between informalisation from above and below, respectively, and the notion that irregular work can be the effect of exit as well as exclusion we discuss enabling and restraining factors in relation to these four positions. In entering a dialogue with the distinction between irregular labour and unauthorised migration we focus (ir)regularity of work and (un)authorised status. (Less)
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- author
- Selberg, Niklas
LU
and Neergaard, Anders
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-07-23
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- migration, (un-)authorised migration, (ir)regular work, employer, employment, employee, state, regulation, law, ILO, human rights
- host publication
- Research Handbook on Migration and Employment
- series title
- Elgar Handbooks in Migration
- editor
- Meardi, Guglielmo
- pages
- 21 pages
- publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85206041925
- ISBN
- 9781839107245
- 9781839107238
- DOI
- 10.4337/9781839107245.00031
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- c597293f-531d-473d-a6eb-22f35e898118
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