‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F23%3A00564139" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/23:00564139 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170221092351" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170221092351</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09500170221092351" target="_blank" >10.1177/09500170221092351</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers
Original language description
This article examines how experience with precarious work influences the notions of control and empowerment among female migrant workers. Instead of focusing on migrant workers as victims of a continuous chain of precarious employment, the article aims to enrich the current knowledge by focusing on the complexity of elements involved in subjective assessments of agency. Based on research of Ukrainian female migrants, we show how precarious jobs can be perceived as enabling, allowing women more control over their lives. To understand these perceptions of agency, we show how important it is to focus on the embeddedness of migrants’ reflective choices in their life trajectories. In the context of migration, this implies a shift in understanding from one in which migrants compare their experience (of labour or gender structures) between country of origin and country of destination towards a more nuanced approach.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-21259S" target="_blank" >GA17-21259S: Care arrangements and work-life reconciliation strategies of migrants in the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Work Employment and Society
ISSN
0950-0170
e-ISSN
1469-8722
Volume of the periodical
37
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
1583-1604
UT code for WoS article
000852018500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85138366300