Border regimes and unfair conditions for Eastern European migrant workers in the Swedish construction sector, a labor process theory perspective
Paper i proceeding, 2022
understand as migrant workers’ rights. It means that we cannot separate labour, class, and the features of the border regimes, as we need to include a knowledge of a “total social organization of labour” (Gluckman 1995). Meth odologically, a systematic literature review is conducted on the precarious and unequal working conditions, as well as on labour and employment forms, for Eastern European migrant workers within the Swedish construction sector. Our methodological choice of focusing on that context aimed at accounting for its specific peculiarities. Our study shows that a labour process theory perspective and a “denationalizing” analytical framework can reveal factors that impactlabour processes connected to immigrant workers. Moreover, we draw attention to the way the criminalizing gaze may be national, but the value adding labour force is indeed international. Thus, this paper contributes with knowledge production regarding the implications of border regimes for international workers’ employment forms, and precarious work practices having become part of the construction sector.
Migrant workers
construction sector
employment
Border regimes
labour process theory
Författare
Bogdan Bahnariu
Högskolan i Halmstad
Klara Öberg
Högskolan i Halmstad
Christian Koch
Högskolan i Halmstad
Dimosthenis Kifokeris
Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Byggnadsdesign
40th International Labour Process Conference: Labour Mobility and Mobilization of Workers
Vol. 40 24-25
Padova, Italy,
Ämneskategorier
Arbetslivsstudier
Byggproduktion
Internationell Migration och Etniska Relationer (IMER)