Migrants at work: How legal status and regional geography affect migrant labour market experiences in the UK

在关于移民的好处和负担的公共和政策辩论中，工作是一个中心关注点。移民在英国经济中的工作经历是多种多样的，取决于一系列因素，包括资格、国家背景和法律地位。然而，许多移民面临共同的安全和早产经历。这项拟议的研究将探索三种类型的移民在不稳定工作中的劳动力市场经历：非欧盟工作移民、欧盟公民和难民。从两个城市的背景来看，它考虑了纽卡斯尔和布里斯托尔这两个不同的城市经济的情况。这项研究的目的是探索移民在面临随机化、灵活性以及身份和工作的不安全感时所采取的策略。因此，这项研究对集体形式的公开抵抗以及工作场所内外更隐蔽的个人代理形式感兴趣。这项研究将从40个半结构化的深度访谈和人种学工作中收集数据，遵循“生活史”的方法，以便产生材料，并用叙事实践框架进行分析。

Work is a central point of interest in public and policy debates on the benefits andburdens of immigration. Migrants' experiences of work in the British economy arediverse and depend on a series of factors that include qualifications, nationalbackground and legal status. Yet many migrants face shared experiences ofinsecurity and precarity. The proposed research will explore the labour marketexperience of three types of migrants in precarious employment: Non-EU workmigrants, EU citizens, and refugees. Looking at two urban contexts, it considers thecircumstances of two distinct city economies, Newcastle and Bristol. The aim of theresearch is to explore strategies that migrants employ as they face casualisation,flexibility and the insecurity of status and work. The research is therefore interested incollective forms of overt resistance as well as more covert forms of individual agencywithin and outside of the workplace. The research will gather data from 40 semistructured,in- depth interviews and ethnographic work, following a 'life-history'approach in order to generate material to be analysed with a narrative practiceframework.