Ciupijus, Z orcid.org/0000-0003-4278-5865, MacKenzie, R and Forde, C orcid.org/0000-0001-9518-7151 (2020) The worker branch in Yorkshire as a way of organising Polish migrants: exploring the process of carving out diasporic spaces within the trade union structure. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46 (15). pp. 3406-3421. ISSN 1369-183X
Abstract
While post-2004 Polish labour migration to the UK was underpinned by diasporic spaces instrumental in facilitating social and labour market adjustments, the institutions of the host society such as trade unions also sought to establish links with migrants. The analysis of interactions between UK unions and EU migrants focused on organising strategies and specific provisions such as English language learning. However, the discussion tended to ignore the impacts of diasporic influences, from ethnicity and native languages of migrants to the outcomes of migrant worker organising. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative data, this paper discusses how Polishness, in its ethnic, historic and linguistic manifestations, has affected the internal dynamics of a migrant worker organisation created by a major UK trade union. The explicit acknowledgement of diasporic particularities of post-2004 Polish migrants not only enabled labour organising activities but also shaped the migrant worker organisation from within. The strength of diasporic influences on one hand and the chosen form of union organising on the other created conditions for the development of diasporic spaces within the institution of the host society.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Diasporic influences; Polish migrants; UK trade unions; language |
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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: | 27 Nov 2018 10:40 |
Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2020 15:14 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1538771 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138954 |