Ciupijus, Z orcid.org/0000-0003-4278-5865, Forde, C orcid.org/0000-0001-9518-7151 and Mackenzie, R (2020) Micro‐ and meso‐regulatory spaces of labour mobility power: The role of ethnic and kinship networks in shaping work‐related movements of post‐2004 Central Eastern European migrants to the United Kingdom. Population, Space and Place, 26 (5). e2300. ISSN 1544-8444
Abstract
European Union (EU) enlargement in 2004 produced a multi‐layered regulatory space structuring labour mobility between Central Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom. Building on a critical revaluation of the concept of labour mobility power as a phenomenon that cannot be reduced to earnings' maximisation, the paper contends that although post‐2004 migration was nested in the macro‐regulatory mechanism of EU freedom of movement of labour, kinship and ethnic networks constituted additional layers in regulating migrants' mobility trajectories. Drawing on migratory biographies, the analysis examines how these regulatory mechanisms shaped migrants' actions and intentions related to transnational exit, contributed in creating linkages through which migrants sought to actualise their labour power on a transnational scale, and provided directions for labour mobility power's use within the receiving country. By embedding labour mobility power within kinship (micro) and ethnic (meso) networks, this paper offers a complimentary understanding of labour mobility power that takes it beyond the homo economicus explanatory model.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Ciupijus, Z , Forde, C and Mackenzie, R (2020) Micro and meso-regulatory spaces of labour mobility power: the role of ethnic and kinship networks in shaping work-related movements of post-2004 Central Eastern European migrants to the UK. Population, Space and Place, 26 (5). e2300. ISSN 1544-8444, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2300. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | ethnic networks; EU labour migration; kinship networks; labour mobility power |
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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: | 31 Jan 2020 11:46 |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2022 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/psp.2300 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:156268 |