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Unpacking (ir)regular labour migration

In: Research Handbook on Migration and Employment

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  • Anders Neergaard
  • Niklas Selberg

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This chapter unpacks the complex and contested nature of ‘irregular labour migration’ and explores the meaning and analytical rigour of this conceptualisation. We discuss four social positions: 1) authorised migrant regular worker, 2) authorised migrant irregular worker, 3) unauthorised migrant irregular worker and 4) unauthorised migrant regular worker. Using the distinctions between informalisation from above and below, respectively, and the notion that irregular work can be the effect of exit as well as exclusion we discuss enabling and restraining factors in relation to these four positions. In entering a dialogue with the distinction between irregular labour and unauthorised migration we focus (ir)regularity of work and (un)authorised status.

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  • Anders Neergaard & Niklas Selberg, 2024. "Unpacking (ir)regular labour migration," Chapters, in: Guglielmo Meardi (ed.), Research Handbook on Migration and Employment, chapter 21, pages 338-358, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:19772_21
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