Tapia, M and Alberti, G orcid.org/0000-0001-5673-6568 (2019) Unpacking the category of migrant workers in trade union research: A multi-level approach to migrant intersectionalities. Work, Employment and Society, 33 (2). pp. 314-325. ISSN 0950-0170
Abstract
This article reflects on the theoretical and empirical challenges that arise when researching trade union strategies towards migrant workers. By bringing together the debates on migration and intersectionality in Employment Relations, the authors highlight the problems of conflating different experiences of migrants under a homogenous view of the ‘migrant worker’ and rather suggest to 1) take account of ‘migrant intersectionalities’, – including the category of migration status among other categorical differences in the workforce, and 2) to do so at different levels of the analysis (micro, meso, and macro). This multi-level, intersectional approach we argue leads to a more nuanced understanding of the realities of migration at a time of major societal challenges for organised labour.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Work, Employment and Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | migration, migrant workers, trade unions, intersectionality, employment relations |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2018 13:51 |
Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2019 11:05 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0950017018780589 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:131645 |