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

在有关移民的好处和负担的公共和政策辩论中，工作是关注的焦点。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，许多移民都面临着不安全和不稳定的共同经历。拟议的研究将探讨三种不稳定就业移民的劳动力市场经验：非欧盟工人移民、欧盟公民和难民。着眼于两个城市背景，它考虑了纽卡斯尔和布里斯托尔两个不同城市经济的情况。研究的目的是探索移民在面对临时工、灵活性以及身份和工作的不安全感时所采用的策略。因此，该研究对工作场所内外的集体形式的公开抵抗以及更隐蔽的个人行为形式感兴趣。这项研究将从40个半结构化的深度访谈和民族志工作中收集数据，遵循“生活史”的方法，以产生用于叙事实践框架分析的材料。

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.