Labour Migration, Employer Preferences and Symbolic Boundary Work
A critical stream of scholarship from North America and Europe, on employer preferences for low-wage labour migrants, suggest that the discourse of ‘the migrant work ethic’ works as a euphemism for the exploitability of this mobile, flexible and deferent workforce. In this article, we combine the li...
Main Authors: | Thomas Sæther Jakobsen, Inga Sæther |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Helsinki University Press
2023-06-01
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Series: | Nordic Journal of Migration Research |
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Online Access: | https://account.journal-njmr.org/index.php/uh-j-njmr/article/view/485 |
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