Essays about: "migrant labour"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 83 essays containing the words migrant labour.

1. 16. The informal tactics of the Bangladeshi student migrant restaurant workers in Sweden: Crime or Survival Strategies?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : K M Rakibul Islam; [2021]
   Keywords : Informality; Legal violence; Legal culture; Migrant labour exploitation; Swedish migration law; Restaurant workers in Sweden; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis inquiries into the reasons and consequences of the relationships between formal and informal laws with a particular focus on the Bangladeshi student migrant restaurant workers’ everyday encounters of informality within Bangladeshi-owned restaurants in Sweden. Consequently, this study interleaved in socio-legal scholarships of informality. READ MORE

3. 17. POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS OF BANNING TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT IN THE GERMAN MEAT INDUSTRY

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Boglárka Takács; [2021]
   Keywords : risk society thesis; individualization thesis; individual survival strategies; German meat industry; precariat; migrant workers; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The German meat industry is a popular labour market destination for unskilled Eastern and Middle European workers. The precarious employment and housing conditions, exacerbated by a staggering number of COVID-19 infections, received immense media attention in 2020. READ MORE

4. 18. Solidarity in Conflict - Organised non-EEA workers, trade unions and labour rights within the Swedish wild berry industry

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Tilly Nygren Laestander; [2021]
   Keywords : Labour rights; Sweden; Thailand; Seasonal Migrant Workers; Trade Unions; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Every year, around 3000-6000 mainly low-income farmers, travel from Northeastern Thailand in search for wild berries in the rural parts of Northern Sweden. There has been a process of inclusion of these seasonal migrant workers into the Swedish labour market structure, since around the turn of the millennium. READ MORE

5. 19. Are they an advantage - or taken advantage of?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Axel Johansson; [2021]
   Keywords : Migrant seasonal workers; Swedish agriculture; dependence; fixed effects; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : In 2019, migrant seasonal workers from outside the EU constituted approximately twenty percent of the hired workforce within the agricultural sector in Sweden. However, the total share of migrant seasonal workers is assumed to be even greater. READ MORE

6. 20. The Chinese dream, a migrant’s nightmare?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Youri ten Hoeve; [2020]
   Keywords : Internal migration; quality of employment; Hukou system; labour reform; China; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to uncover whether having a long-term or permanent contract improves the quality of employment of internal migrants in China. The focus lies specifically on the labour reforms in 2008, which will be analysed using a differences-in-differences approach. READ MORE