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Louise Waite - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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‘Hostile’ UK Immigration Policy and Asylum Seekers’ Susceptibility to Forced Labour
Entrapping Asylum Seekers, 2017Co-Authors: Hannah Lewis, Louise Waite, Stuart HodkinsonAbstract:This chapter discusses how recent changes in UK immigration policy to create an intentionally ‘hostile environment’ for irregular migrants relate to susceptibility to Forced Labour. The key changes in the Immigration Act 2014 and Immigration Act 2016 target spaces of everyday life by restricting access to housing, healthcare services, banking and legal representation, and increasing penalties for unauthorized working. Drawing on our research on experiences of Forced Labour among refugees and asylum seekers, we highlight how such policies could operate to increase Labour exploitation among people seeking asylum and other irregular migrants. This outcome is quite contradictory with government claims that it wishes to tackle ‘modern slavery’ in the UK through the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
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Socio-legal status and experiences of Forced Labour among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 2016Co-Authors: Peter Dwyer, Hannah Lewis, Stuart Hodkinson, Louise WaiteAbstract:Socio-legal status determines the differential rights to residence, work and social welfare that accrue to migrants depending on their particular immigration status. This paper presents analysis of original empirical data generated in qualitative interviews with migrants who had both made a claim for asylum and experienced conditions of Forced Labour in the UK. Following an outline of the divergent socio-legal statuses assigned to individual migrants within the asylum system, early discussions in the paper offer a summary of key aspects and indicators of Forced Labour. Subsequent sections highlight the significance of socio-legal status in constructing such migrants as inherently vulnerable to severe exploitation. It is concluded that immigration policy and, more particularly, the differential socio-legal statuses that it structures at various stages of the asylum process, helps to create the conditions in which severe exploitation and Forced Labour are likely to flourish among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK.
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Asylum, Immigration Restrictions and Exploitation: Hyper-precarity as a lens for understanding and tackling Forced Labour
Anti-Trafficking Review, 2015Co-Authors: Hannah Lewis, Louise WaiteAbstract: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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asylum immigration restrictions and exploitation hyperprecarity as a lens for understanding and tackling Forced Labour
2015Co-Authors: Hannah Lewis, Louise WaiteAbstract: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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Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and Forced Labour in the Global North
Progress in Human Geography, 2014Co-Authors: Hannah Lewis, Peter Dwyer, Stuart Hodkinson, Louise WaiteAbstract:This paper unpacks the contested inter-connections between neoliberal work and welfare regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers. The concept of precarity is explored as a way of understanding intensifying and insecure post-Fordist work in late capitalism. Migrants are centrally implicated in highly precarious work experiences at the bottom end of Labour markets in Global North countries, including becoming trapped in Forced Labour. Building on existing research on the working experiences of migrants in the Global North, the main part of the article considers three questions. First, what is precarity and how does the concept relate to working lives? Second, how might we understand the causes of extreme forms of migrant Labour exploitation in precarious lifeworlds? Third, how can we adequately theorize these particular experiences using the conceptual tools of Forced Labour, slavery, unfreedom and precarity? We use the concept of ‘hyper-precarity’ alongside notions o...
Jens Lerche - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a global alliance against Forced Labour unfree Labour neo liberal globalization and the international Labour organization
Journal of Agrarian Change, 2007Co-Authors: Jens LercheAbstract:The ILO is presently attempting to spearhead a ‘global alliance against Forced Labour’. This article surveys the ILO approach to Forced Labour, recent theoretical debates regarding Forced Labour and recent empirical work on bonded Labour in India. It argues that the ILO ‘ghettoizes’ Forced Labour, and that existing theories do not provide an alternative to this, as they focus on high-level ahistorical models. There is a need to develop specific analyses of the processes underlying both free and unfree Labour relations in the present context, and their relation to neo-liberal globalization as well as country-specific conditions. The review of Indian case studies and of aspects of neo-liberal globalization points towards such an analytical approach.
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A Global Alliance against Forced Labour? Unfree Labour, Neo‐Liberal Globalization and the International Labour Organization
Journal of Agrarian Change, 2007Co-Authors: Jens LercheAbstract:The ILO is presently attempting to spearhead a ‘global alliance against Forced Labour’. This article surveys the ILO approach to Forced Labour, recent theoretical debates regarding Forced Labour and recent empirical work on bonded Labour in India. It argues that the ILO ‘ghettoizes’ Forced Labour, and that existing theories do not provide an alternative to this, as they focus on high-level ahistorical models. There is a need to develop specific analyses of the processes underlying both free and unfree Labour relations in the present context, and their relation to neo-liberal globalization as well as country-specific conditions. The review of Indian case studies and of aspects of neo-liberal globalization points towards such an analytical approach.
Hannah Lewis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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‘Hostile’ UK Immigration Policy and Asylum Seekers’ Susceptibility to Forced Labour
Entrapping Asylum Seekers, 2017Co-Authors: Hannah Lewis, Louise Waite, Stuart HodkinsonAbstract:This chapter discusses how recent changes in UK immigration policy to create an intentionally ‘hostile environment’ for irregular migrants relate to susceptibility to Forced Labour. The key changes in the Immigration Act 2014 and Immigration Act 2016 target spaces of everyday life by restricting access to housing, healthcare services, banking and legal representation, and increasing penalties for unauthorized working. Drawing on our research on experiences of Forced Labour among refugees and asylum seekers, we highlight how such policies could operate to increase Labour exploitation among people seeking asylum and other irregular migrants. This outcome is quite contradictory with government claims that it wishes to tackle ‘modern slavery’ in the UK through the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
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Socio-legal status and experiences of Forced Labour among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 2016Co-Authors: Peter Dwyer, Hannah Lewis, Stuart Hodkinson, Louise WaiteAbstract:Socio-legal status determines the differential rights to residence, work and social welfare that accrue to migrants depending on their particular immigration status. This paper presents analysis of original empirical data generated in qualitative interviews with migrants who had both made a claim for asylum and experienced conditions of Forced Labour in the UK. Following an outline of the divergent socio-legal statuses assigned to individual migrants within the asylum system, early discussions in the paper offer a summary of key aspects and indicators of Forced Labour. Subsequent sections highlight the significance of socio-legal status in constructing such migrants as inherently vulnerable to severe exploitation. It is concluded that immigration policy and, more particularly, the differential socio-legal statuses that it structures at various stages of the asylum process, helps to create the conditions in which severe exploitation and Forced Labour are likely to flourish among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK.
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Asylum, Immigration Restrictions and Exploitation: Hyper-precarity as a lens for understanding and tackling Forced Labour
Anti-Trafficking Review, 2015Co-Authors: Hannah Lewis, Louise WaiteAbstract: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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asylum immigration restrictions and exploitation hyperprecarity as a lens for understanding and tackling Forced Labour
2015Co-Authors: Hannah Lewis, Louise WaiteAbstract: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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Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and Forced Labour in the Global North
Progress in Human Geography, 2014Co-Authors: Hannah Lewis, Peter Dwyer, Stuart Hodkinson, Louise WaiteAbstract:This paper unpacks the contested inter-connections between neoliberal work and welfare regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers. The concept of precarity is explored as a way of understanding intensifying and insecure post-Fordist work in late capitalism. Migrants are centrally implicated in highly precarious work experiences at the bottom end of Labour markets in Global North countries, including becoming trapped in Forced Labour. Building on existing research on the working experiences of migrants in the Global North, the main part of the article considers three questions. First, what is precarity and how does the concept relate to working lives? Second, how might we understand the causes of extreme forms of migrant Labour exploitation in precarious lifeworlds? Third, how can we adequately theorize these particular experiences using the conceptual tools of Forced Labour, slavery, unfreedom and precarity? We use the concept of ‘hyper-precarity’ alongside notions o...
Vladislava Stoyanova - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sweet taste with bitter roots Forced Labour and chowdury and others v greece
European Human Rights Law Review, 2018Co-Authors: Vladislava StoyanovaAbstract:Chowdury and Others v Greece reveals the exploitation that migrant workers suffer at agricultural farms for production of strawberries whose sweet taste many of us enjoy. Greece was found in violation of Article 4 of the ECHR (the right not to be subjected to Forced Labour and human trafficking) for its failure to protect the migrants from the exploitation and to conduct effective investigation. The judgment will be laurelled as an important achievement in favour of the rights of undocumented migrant workers to fair working conditions. It sheds light on the application of the definition of Forced Labour to Labour performed by undocumented migrants. It also contributes to the enhancement of states’ positive obligations under Article 4 ECHR. It suggests that the obligations imposed by the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings are of relevance not only to factual circumstances qualified as human trafficking, but to the whole gamut of abuses intended to be captured by Article 4 ECHR. (Less)
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Sweet Taste with Bitter Roots: Forced Labour and Chowdury and Others v Greece
2017Co-Authors: Vladislava StoyanovaAbstract:Chowdury and Others v Greece reveals the exploitation that migrant workers suffer at agricultural farms for production of strawberries whose sweet taste many of us enjoy. Greece was found in violation of Article 4 of the ECHR (the right not to be subjected to Forced Labour and human trafficking) for its failure to protect the migrants from the exploitation and to conduct effective investigation. The judgment will be laurelled as an important achievement in favour of the rights of undocumented migrant workers to fair working conditions. It sheds light on the application of the definition of Forced Labour to Labour performed by undocumented migrants. It also contributes to the enhancement of states’ positive obligations under Article 4 ECHR. It suggests that the obligations imposed by the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings are of relevance not only to factual circumstances qualified as human trafficking, but to the whole gamut of abuses intended to be captured by Article 4 ECHR.
Peter Dwyer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Socio-legal status and experiences of Forced Labour among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 2016Co-Authors: Peter Dwyer, Hannah Lewis, Stuart Hodkinson, Louise WaiteAbstract:Socio-legal status determines the differential rights to residence, work and social welfare that accrue to migrants depending on their particular immigration status. This paper presents analysis of original empirical data generated in qualitative interviews with migrants who had both made a claim for asylum and experienced conditions of Forced Labour in the UK. Following an outline of the divergent socio-legal statuses assigned to individual migrants within the asylum system, early discussions in the paper offer a summary of key aspects and indicators of Forced Labour. Subsequent sections highlight the significance of socio-legal status in constructing such migrants as inherently vulnerable to severe exploitation. It is concluded that immigration policy and, more particularly, the differential socio-legal statuses that it structures at various stages of the asylum process, helps to create the conditions in which severe exploitation and Forced Labour are likely to flourish among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK.
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Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and Forced Labour in the Global North
Progress in Human Geography, 2014Co-Authors: Hannah Lewis, Peter Dwyer, Stuart Hodkinson, Louise WaiteAbstract:This paper unpacks the contested inter-connections between neoliberal work and welfare regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers. The concept of precarity is explored as a way of understanding intensifying and insecure post-Fordist work in late capitalism. Migrants are centrally implicated in highly precarious work experiences at the bottom end of Labour markets in Global North countries, including becoming trapped in Forced Labour. Building on existing research on the working experiences of migrants in the Global North, the main part of the article considers three questions. First, what is precarity and how does the concept relate to working lives? Second, how might we understand the causes of extreme forms of migrant Labour exploitation in precarious lifeworlds? Third, how can we adequately theorize these particular experiences using the conceptual tools of Forced Labour, slavery, unfreedom and precarity? We use the concept of ‘hyper-precarity’ alongside notions o...
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Precarious lives: Experiences of Forced Labour among refugees and asylum seekers in England
2013Co-Authors: Louise Waite, Hannah Lewis, Stuart Hodkinson, Peter DwyerAbstract:This research uncovered evidence that refugees and asylum seekers are susceptible to Forced Labour in the UK. The findings are based on a two-year study by academics at the Universities of Leeds and Salford, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The research explored experiences of Forced Labour among 30 people who had made claims for asylum in England, supplemented by interviews with 23 practitioners and policy-makers.
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Forced Labour and uk immigration policy status matters
2011Co-Authors: Peter Dwyer, Hannah Lewis, L C Scullion, Louise WaiteAbstract:This paper: investigates the links between immigration status and migrants’ vulnerability to Forced Labour; explores how socio-legal status (specific rights to residence, work and social welfare) impacts on migrants’ risk of Forced Labour, and; reviews UK immigration policy, to assess how far it may reduce or facilitate the use of Forced Labour. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) commissioned this paper as part of its programme on Forced Labour, which seeks to highlight the extent of Forced Labour in the UK, support its victims and identify ways of eradicating it.
