The informal tactics of the Bangladeshi student migrant restaurant workers in Sweden: Crime or Survival Strategies?
(2021) SOLM02 20211Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract
- This thesis inquiries into the reasons and consequences of the relationships between formal and informal laws with a particular focus on the Bangladeshi student migrant restaurant workers’ everyday encounters of informality within Bangladeshi-owned restaurants in Sweden. Consequently, this study interleaved in socio-legal scholarships of informality. Departing from the pure legal centric emphasis on migration labour studies to understand the whys and wherefores and consequences of the migrant workers’ work conditions, this study investigates the migrant workers’ encounters of informality and laws regulating their working conditions from broader perspectives. In view of that, this study relied on the analysis of empirical data collected... (More)
- This thesis inquiries into the reasons and consequences of the relationships between formal and informal laws with a particular focus on the Bangladeshi student migrant restaurant workers’ everyday encounters of informality within Bangladeshi-owned restaurants in Sweden. Consequently, this study interleaved in socio-legal scholarships of informality. Departing from the pure legal centric emphasis on migration labour studies to understand the whys and wherefores and consequences of the migrant workers’ work conditions, this study investigates the migrant workers’ encounters of informality and laws regulating their working conditions from broader perspectives. In view of that, this study relied on the analysis of empirical data collected through in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations. The data is collected from the Bangladeshi student migrant restaurant workers who work in Bangladeshi-owned restaurants in different cities of Sweden. The interviews and the ethnographic field observations took place from February 2021 to April 2021. The concept of ‘informality’, ‘legal culture’, and ‘legal violence’ are used as analytic frameworks to analyze the empirical data to understand the reasons for the Bangladeshi student migrant workers’ engagement in informality, informal norms, practices within the Swedish legal system. This study suggests that focusing only on the pure legal centralistic perceptions might not be self-sufficient to explain the Bangladeshi student migrant workers’ intents and efforts to (non)compliance with the formal legal system of Sweden. As a result, to examine the complications of handling the issues related to the reasons of engaging in and depending on informal norms, practices, and social networks by the Bangladeshi student migrant restaurant workers in the legal environment of Sweden needs to be developed and understood on reason-based roots. (Less)
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- author
- Islam, K M Rakibul LU
- supervisor
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- Ida Nafstad LU
- organization
- course
- SOLM02 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Informality, Legal violence, Legal culture, Migrant labour exploitation, Swedish migration law, Restaurant workers in Sweden
- language
- English
- id
- 9052393
- date added to LUP
- 2021-07-07 12:39:49
- date last changed
- 2021-07-07 12:39:49
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abstract = {{This thesis inquiries into the reasons and consequences of the relationships between formal and informal laws with a particular focus on the Bangladeshi student migrant restaurant workers’ everyday encounters of informality within Bangladeshi-owned restaurants in Sweden. Consequently, this study interleaved in socio-legal scholarships of informality. Departing from the pure legal centric emphasis on migration labour studies to understand the whys and wherefores and consequences of the migrant workers’ work conditions, this study investigates the migrant workers’ encounters of informality and laws regulating their working conditions from broader perspectives. In view of that, this study relied on the analysis of empirical data collected through in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations. The data is collected from the Bangladeshi student migrant restaurant workers who work in Bangladeshi-owned restaurants in different cities of Sweden. The interviews and the ethnographic field observations took place from February 2021 to April 2021. The concept of ‘informality’, ‘legal culture’, and ‘legal violence’ are used as analytic frameworks to analyze the empirical data to understand the reasons for the Bangladeshi student migrant workers’ engagement in informality, informal norms, practices within the Swedish legal system. This study suggests that focusing only on the pure legal centralistic perceptions might not be self-sufficient to explain the Bangladeshi student migrant workers’ intents and efforts to (non)compliance with the formal legal system of Sweden. As a result, to examine the complications of handling the issues related to the reasons of engaging in and depending on informal norms, practices, and social networks by the Bangladeshi student migrant restaurant workers in the legal environment of Sweden needs to be developed and understood on reason-based roots.}},
author = {{Islam, K M Rakibul}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The informal tactics of the Bangladeshi student migrant restaurant workers in Sweden: Crime or Survival Strategies?}},
year = {{2021}},
}