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Language(s):
eng - English
Dates:
2023-10-112023
Publication Status:
Issued
Pages:
221
Publishing info:
Duisburg : University of Duisburg-Essen
Table of Contents:
Chapter One: Introducing the Research
1 Introduction
1.1 The German context
1.2 Research questions
1.3 Structure of the research
Chapter Two: The Economic Sociology of Migrant Labor Markets
2 Introduction
2.1 The state of research on asylum seekers’ labor market
2.2 Migrant (social) networks
2.3 Social capital
2.4 Autonomy of migration
2.4.1 Structuration and voluntaristic action
2.4.2 Structural constraints and facilitators
2.5 Research design
2.5.1 Developing and formulating research ideas
2.5.2 Profile of asylum seekers and refugees in Germany
2.5.3 Regulation for labor market access
2.5.4 Patterns of employment- low-skilled sector
2.6 Methodology
2.6.1 Research locations and field access
2.6.2 Data collection
2.6.3 Observation
2.6.4 Semi-structured interviews and conversations
2.6.6 Expert Interviews
2.7 Data Analysis and writing-up
2.8 Research ethics
2.9 Encountering limitations and challenges
Chapter Three: Job-seeking Experience: social connections, immigration controls and employment regulations
3 Introduction
3.1 Pattern of job-seeking and employments
3.1.1 The role of “weak ties” for finding temporary agency jobs
3.1.2 Finding jobs in the informal market- “weak ties” vs “ethnic ties”
3.2 Immigration controls collide and interact with employment regulations
3.2.1 Persons entitled to asylum
3.2.2 Tolerated persons and other asylum seekers
3.2.3 Forced informalization of asylum seekers’ labor
3.3 Immigration controls and vulnerability
Chapter Four: The informalization of Asylum labor- migrant entrepreneurs and marriage market
4 Introduction
4.1 Locked out of formal employment- agency job is not a steppingstone
4.1.1 Relegated into the shadows of informalized employment
4.1.2 The informality of day-market and voluntary jobs
4.2 Migrant entrepreneurs and the informal market
4.3 Migrant entrepreneurs as “bridges” for social connection
4.4 Marriage market- finding a partner as the “game changer’’
Chapter Five: Theoretical Contributions and Conclusion
5 Introduction
5.1 Mapping of social ties based on ethnographic findings
5.2 Escaping the “camp’’- autonomy of asylum seekers
5.3 Asylum workers’ agency: the economic sociology of “social ties” and decent work
Appendix
Bibliography
Rev. Type:
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Identifiers:
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Degree:
PhD
