Embodied working lives: work and life in Maharashtra, India
Introduction -- Embodied work -- Working lives in Sonav -- The meanings of work -- Body capitals -- The effects of working experiences -- Body management -- Conclusions.
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Introduction -- Embodied work -- Working lives in Sonav -- The meanings of work -- Body capitals -- The effects of working experiences -- Body management -- Conclusions.
In: Social policy and society: SPS ; a journal of the Social Policy Association, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 669-679
ISSN: 1475-3073
This article examines the relationship in the UK between asylum-seeking and the labour market. Since 2002, asylum-seekers have not been allowed to work unless they have waited over twelve months for an initial decision on their asylum claim. This policy change occurred as employment was considered a 'pull factor' encouraging unfounded asylum claims. Despite not having the right to work, asylum-seekers – and especially those whose applications for refugee status have been refused by the UK government – interact with the labour market in manifold ways. Drawing on an ESRC-funded study in the UK's Yorkshire and Humber region and related studies, this article argues that both asylum-seekers and refused asylum-seekers form a hyper-exploitable pool of 'illegalised' and unprotected workers. As a vital part of their survival terrain, work is largely experienced as for-cash labouring in low-paid labour market sectors where the spectre of exploitation and even 'modern slavery' are perpetual threats. Recent policy shifts are deepening such threats through creating increasingly 'uncomfortable' and 'hostile' environments for certain categories of migrants.
In: Journal of South Asian Development, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 227-253
ISSN: 0973-1733
Despite development studies' core concern with vulnerable bodies, the discipline has been somewhat sluggish in embracing the expansive and fruitful literature around embodiment. One aspect of this terrain is 'body management'; a topic often discussed in contexts of Western consumerism where the body is perceived as a malleable entity subject to transformation. This article discusses a group of manual labourers in India who are not reflexively reconstituting themselves through post-modern playfulness, but whose fleshy bodies are nevertheless of pivotal importance in their labour-intensive livelihoods. It is this understanding of bodies as primary assets in the lives of the working poor that begs a deeper understanding of how bodies are managed within realms that ostensibly appear to harm the embodied condition of labourers. This article explores subtle and embedded body management strategies, and also asks if there are limits to the notion of a self-directed project of benevolent body management.
In: Contemporary South Asia, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 411-428
ISSN: 1469-364X
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Band 45, Heft 13, S. 2289-2307
ISSN: 1469-9451
In: Anti-trafficking review, Heft 5
ISSN: 2287-0113
The topic of forced labour is receiving a growing amount of political and policy attention across the globe. This paper makes two clear contributions to emerging debates. First, we focus on a group who are seldom explicitly considered in forced labour debates: forced migrants who interact with the asylum system. We build an argument of the production of susceptibility to forced labour through the United Kingdom's (UK) asylum system, discussing the roles of compromised socio-legal status resulting from restrictive immigration policy, neoliberal labour market characteristics and migrants' own trajectories. Second, we argue that forced labour needs to be understood as part of, and an outcome of, widespread normalised precarious work. Precarity is a concept used to describe the rise of insecure, casualised and sub-contracted work and is useful in explaining labour market processes that are conducive to the production of forced labour. Using precarity as a lens to examine forced labour encourages the recognition of extreme forms of exploitation as part of a wider picture of systematic exploitation of migrants in the labour market. To understand the reasons why forced migrants might be drawn into severe labour exploitation in the UK, we introduce the concept of hyper-precarity to explain how multidimensional insecurities contribute to forced labour experiences, particularly among forced migrants in the global north. Viewing forced labour as connected to precarity also suggests that avenues and tools for tackling severe labour exploitation need to form part of the wider struggle for migrant labour rights.
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Band 42, Heft 8, S. 1388-1402
ISSN: 1469-9451
In: Lewis, H and Waite, L. (2015) 'Asylum, Immigration Restrictions and Exploitation: Hyperprecarity As a Lens for Understanding and Tackling Forced Labour' Anti-Trafficking Review, Special Issue, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking, No. 5.
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The topic of forced labour is receiving a growing amount of political and policy attention across the globe. This paper makes two clear contributions to emerging debates. First, we focus on a group who are seldom explicitly considered in forced labour debates: forced migrants who interact with the asylum system. We build an argument of the production of susceptibility to forced labour through the United Kingdom's (UK) asylum system, discussing the roles of compromised socio-legal status resulting from restrictive immigration policy, neoliberal labour market characteristics and migrants' own trajectories. Second, we argue that forced labour needs to be understood as part of, and an outcome of, widespread normalised precarious work. Precarity is a concept used to describe the rise of insecure, casualised and sub-contracted work and is useful in explaining labour market processes that are conducive to the production of forced labour. Using precarity as a lens to examine forced labour encourages the recognition of extreme forms of exploitation as part of a wider picture of systematic exploitation of migrants in the labour market. To understand the reasons why forced migrants might be drawn into severe labour exploitation in the UK, we introduce the concept of hyper-precarity to explain how multidimensional insecurities contribute to forced labour experiences, particularly among forced migrants in the global north. Viewing forced labour as connected to precarity also suggests that avenues and tools for tackling severe labour exploitation need to form part of the wider struggle for migrant labour rights.
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In: Emotion, space and society, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 201-202
ISSN: 1755-4586
In: Emotion, space and society, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 238-248
ISSN: 1755-4586
In: Gender, place and culture: a journal of feminist geography, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 115-135
ISSN: 1360-0524
In: Globalizations, Band 19, Heft 6, S. 911-921
ISSN: 1474-774X
In: International migration: quarterly review, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 54-79
ISSN: 1468-2435