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"False self-employment: The case of Ukrainian migrants in London’s construction sector"

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posted on 2018-04-20, 11:18 authored by Peter Rodgers, N. Vershinina, M. Ram, N. Theodorakopoulos, Y. Rodionova
This article, presenting qualitative accounts of Ukrainian business owners, highlights how migrants engage in false self‐employment in the UK. Their experiences problematise notions of legality and binary depictions of migrant workers as ‘victims or villains’, demonstrating that migrants see their illegal status as a transient stage before gaining legal status.

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Industrial Relations Journal, 2018, 49 (1), 2-18

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of Management

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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Industrial Relations Journal

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Wiley

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0019-8692

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1468-2338

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2018

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/irj.12199

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