Journal
MOBILITIES
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 696-714Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1611028
Keywords
Asylum; refugees; UK; precarity; EU; migration; mobility power
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- British Academy
- Leverhulme Trust [SG132753]
- Northumbria University
- Nottingham Trent University
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This article conceptualises the role of mobilities within precarious working and living conditions, drawing on qualitative analysis of interviews (n = 52) and a policy seminar (n = 50) in North-East England. It focuses on refugees, asylum seekers, and Eastern European EU migrants, as policy-constructed groups that have been identified as disproportionately concentrated in precarious work. The article develops three 'dynamics of precarity', defined as 'surplus', 'rooted', and 'hyper-flexible', to conceptualise distinct ways of moving that represent significant variations in the form that precarity takes. The article concludes that understanding precarity through mobilities can identify points of connection among today's increasingly heterogeneous working class.
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