Unpacking (Ir)regular Labour Migration

Summary, in English

This chapter unpacks the complex and contested nature of ‘irregular labour migration’ and explores the meaning and analytical rigour of this conceptualisation. We discuss four social positions: 1) authorised migrant regular worker, 2) authorised migrant irregular worker, 3) unauthorised migrant irregular worker and 4) unauthorised migrant regular worker. Using the distinctions between informalisation from above and below, respectively, and the notion that irregular work can be the effect of exit as well as exclusion we discuss enabling and restraining factors in relation to these four positions. In entering a dialogue with the distinction between irregular labour and unauthorised migration we focus (ir)regularity of work and (un)authorised status.

• Author: Niklas Selberg; Anders Neergaard
• Editor: Guglielmo Meardi
• Department/s: Department of Law; Human Rights Law; Lund University Centre for Business Law (Swedish abbr: ACLU); Integration and Law; LU Profile Area: Human rights
• Publishing year: 2024-07-23
• Language: English
• Pages: 338-358
• Publication/Series: Elgar Handbooks in Migration
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781839107245.00031
• Document type: Book chapter
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Topic: Law
• Keywords: migration; (un-)authorised migration; (ir)regular work; employer; employment; employee; state; regulation; law; ILO; human rights
• Status: Published
• Research group: Human Rights Law; Lund University Centre for Business Law (Swedish abbr: ACLU); Integration and Law
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 9781839107238; ISBN: 9781839107245