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Employment, Social Networks and Undocumented Migrants: The Employer Perspective
This article draws on data from qualitative interviews with ethnic enclave and ethnic economy business entrepreneurs from Chinese, Bangladeshi and Turkish-speaking communities in London. Routes into business and worker recruitment practices are explored, demonstrating the centrality of social capita...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4361484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25866421 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038514532039 |
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description | This article draws on data from qualitative interviews with ethnic enclave and ethnic economy business entrepreneurs from Chinese, Bangladeshi and Turkish-speaking communities in London. Routes into business and worker recruitment practices are explored, demonstrating the centrality of social capital in the form of family and other social networks within these processes. The article investigates what employers consider the desirable characteristics of workers: trust, kinship, gender, social networks, language compatibility and the needs of the business intersect with racialised notions of workers’ strengths and characteristics. Finally, we consider changing practices in relation to the employment of undocumented migrants, in the context of an increasingly punitive legislative regime. The complex and variable impact of policy alongside the ways in which other obligations and positions outweigh the fear and risks of sanctions associated with non-compliance is revealed. |
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spelling | pubmed-43614842015-04-10 Employment, Social Networks and Undocumented Migrants: The Employer Perspective Bloch, Alice McKay, Sonia Sociology Articles This article draws on data from qualitative interviews with ethnic enclave and ethnic economy business entrepreneurs from Chinese, Bangladeshi and Turkish-speaking communities in London. Routes into business and worker recruitment practices are explored, demonstrating the centrality of social capital in the form of family and other social networks within these processes. The article investigates what employers consider the desirable characteristics of workers: trust, kinship, gender, social networks, language compatibility and the needs of the business intersect with racialised notions of workers’ strengths and characteristics. Finally, we consider changing practices in relation to the employment of undocumented migrants, in the context of an increasingly punitive legislative regime. The complex and variable impact of policy alongside the ways in which other obligations and positions outweigh the fear and risks of sanctions associated with non-compliance is revealed. SAGE Publications 2015-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4361484/ /pubmed/25866421 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038514532039 Text en © The Author(s) 2014 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm). |
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title | Employment, Social Networks and Undocumented Migrants: The Employer Perspective |
title_full | Employment, Social Networks and Undocumented Migrants: The Employer Perspective |
title_fullStr | Employment, Social Networks and Undocumented Migrants: The Employer Perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Employment, Social Networks and Undocumented Migrants: The Employer Perspective |
title_short | Employment, Social Networks and Undocumented Migrants: The Employer Perspective |
title_sort | employment, social networks and undocumented migrants: the employer perspective |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4361484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25866421 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038514532039 |
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