Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers : The House, the Street, the Town

Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers The House, the Street, the Town

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Barnard, Catherine, author (author), Costello, Fiona, author, Fraser Butlin, Sarah, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, England : Bristol University Press [2024]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Bristol Studies in Law and Social Justice
Materias:
Foreign workers > European Union countries.
Employee rights > European Union countries.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Series page
  • Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers: The House, the Street, the Town
  • Copyright information
  • Table of Contents
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
  • Notes on the Authors
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • 1 Themes, Issues and Methods
  • A. Introduction
  • B. Purpose of the research
  • C. Place, precarity and pragmatism
  • 1. Locating the research in Great Yarmouth
  • 1.1 The Why
  • 1.2 The How
  • 2. Themes
  • 3. Structure of the book
  • D. Framing of the book
  • 1. Access to justice
  • 2. Legal consciousness and everyday law
  • 3. Pragmatic law
  • E. Conclusion
  • 2 The Town, the Street, the House and the Advice Charity
  • A. Introduction
  • B. The Town
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Socioeconomic context of the Town
  • 3. Phases of migration to the Town
  • 3.1 Earlier migration to the Town
  • 3.2 Portuguese migration to the Town
  • 3.3 Central and Eastern European migration to the Town
  • 3.4 Romanian and Bulgarian migration to the Town
  • 4. Effect of migration on the Town
  • C. The Street
  • D. The House
  • 1. The House and its residents
  • 2. The landlord
  • E. The advice charity
  • 1. What is GYROS?
  • 2. GYROS and the community advice sector
  • F. Conclusion
  • 3 Immigration and the European Union Settlement Scheme
  • A. Introduction
  • B. Withdrawal Agreement
  • C. European Union Settlement Scheme
  • 1. Legal provisions
  • 2. Applications to the scheme
  • 3. Feeling unwelcome
  • D. Issues faced by GYROS' clients when applying under the European Union Settlement Scheme
  • 1. Early days
  • 1.1 Lack of awareness and confusion over Brexit dates
  • 1.2 Digital-only application and data concerns
  • 1.3 Establishing proof of residence
  • 2. Current issues
  • 2.1 Late applications
  • 2.2 Advice sharks
  • 2.3 Non-EU family members of EU nationals
  • 2.4 Upgrading from pre-settled to settled status.
  • 3. GYROS' approach
  • E. Conclusion
  • 4 Employment
  • A. Introduction
  • B. Working life in the factories
  • 1. Arrival and first impressions
  • 2. Day-to-day working life in factories
  • 3. The COVID-19 pandemic
  • C. Issues in the GYROS dataset
  • 1. Help to find work
  • 2. Commonly experienced work problems
  • 2.1 Support to engage with employers
  • 2.2 Reduced hours
  • 2.3 Lack of payslips and nonpayment of wages, sick pay or holiday pay
  • 3. Health issues
  • D. Employment tribunal cases with similar facts
  • E. Interface with the law and enforcement
  • 1. EU law requirements
  • 2. GYROS' role in addressing employment issues
  • F. Conclusion
  • 5 Housing
  • A. Introduction
  • B. Housing stock in Great Yarmouth
  • C. The House and its residents
  • 1. The House
  • 2. First accommodation
  • 3. Interim conclusion
  • D. Housing issues in the GYROS dataset
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Refusal to rent to prospective tenants
  • 3. The standard of accommodation
  • 4. Bureaucratic issues, paperwork and debt
  • 5. Tied accommodation
  • 6. Eviction
  • 6.1 The GYROS dataset
  • 6.2 Possession hearings
  • E. GYROS' response to these problems
  • F. Social housing
  • G. Conclusion
  • 6 Welfare Benefits and Debt
  • A. Introduction
  • B. Welfare benefits
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. EU eligibility and systems
  • 2.1 The requirements
  • 2.2 Current legal challenges to eligibility
  • 3. Universal Credit and Great Yarmouth
  • 4. Digital accessibility and English language skills
  • 5. Benefit overpayments
  • 7. GYROS' response
  • C. Debt
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Why are clients in debt?
  • 2.1 Causes of debt
  • 2.2 Cost of debt: the poverty premium
  • 2.3 COVID-19 and debt issues
  • 3. How GYROS responds to the issues
  • 3.1 Advisory work
  • 3.2 Basic needs
  • D. Conclusion
  • 7 Access to Healthcare
  • A. Introduction
  • B. EU nationals' access to healthcare in the UK.
  • 1. Access to healthcare
  • 2. The position of those under the European Union Settlement Scheme
  • C. GYROS health survey, 2015 and 2022
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Demographic data
  • 3. Survey results
  • 3.1 Access to healthcare
  • 3.2 Health conditions
  • 3.3 COVID-19 vaccination rates
  • 3.4 Interim conclusions
  • D. Healthcare issues in the GYROS database
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Administrative issues
  • 3. Arranging access to fit notes or communication with employers
  • 4. Applying for benefits
  • 5. Substantive healthcare issues
  • 6. GYROS' role
  • E. Conclusion
  • 8 Drawing the Threads Together
  • A. Introduction
  • B. Overarching themes
  • 1. Precarity
  • 1.1 Precarity and precariousness
  • 1.2 Bureaucratic bordering
  • 1.3 Problem clustering
  • (a) Why do problems cluster?
  • (b) 'Legal' nature of the 'problems'
  • 2. Pragmatism
  • 2.1 The 'how'
  • 2.2 The 'why'
  • C. Existing literature on the everyday
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Legal approach
  • 3. Anthropology
  • 3.1 Legal anthropology
  • 3.2 Community-based anthropology
  • 4. Socio-legal studies
  • D. Pragmatic law
  • 1. The 'how' of pragmatic law
  • 2. The risks of a pragmatic approach to law
  • 4. Role of pragmatic law within the legal landscape
  • E. Conclusion
  • Postscript
  • 1. Data collection and its limits
  • 1.1 Data collection
  • 1.2 Limitations of the data
  • 2. Data analysis: adaptive grounded theory
  • Interviews
  • Interviews with residents of the House, a former resident and the landlord
  • Interviews (semi-structured) and meetings (unstructured) with professionals and community leaders
  • Interviews with GYROS staff
  • Focus groups
  • Focus groups with GYROS staff
  • Focus groups with EU migrant workers
  • COVID-19 snapshot conversations
  • Telephone conversations with GYROS clients, April 2020
  • Videos with clients of GYROS
  • Appendix I: Methodology.
  • 1. Data collection and its limits
  • 1.1 Data collection
  • 1.2 Limitations of the data
  • 2. Data analysis: adaptive grounded theory
  • Appendix II Data Collection
  • Interviews
  • Interviews with residents of the House, a former resident and the landlord
  • Interviews (semi-structured) and meetings (unstructured) with professionals and community leaders
  • Interviews with GYROS staff
  • Focus groups
  • Focus groups with GYROS staff
  • Focus groups with EU migrant workers
  • COVID-19 snapshot conversations
  • Telephone conversations with GYROS clients, April 2020
  • Videos with clients of GYROS
  • Index.

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