Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers

The House, The Street, The Town

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Published May 28, 2024 by Bristol University Press.

ISBN:
978-1-5292-2957-8
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This book offers an in-depth exploration of the lives of EU migrant workers in the UK following Brexit and COVID-19.

Drawing on a longitudinal study, the book delves into the legal problems migrant workers face and sheds much-needed light on the hidden interactions between the law and communities around issues such as employment, housing, welfare and health. Through personal narratives and insights gathered from interviews, it reveals how (clustered) legal problems arise, are resolved and often bypass formal legal resolution pathways.

This is an invaluable resource that provides a rich picture of everyday life for migrant workers in the UK and highlights the vital role of NGOs working to support them.

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reviewed Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers by Catherine Barnard

An Excellent Law-Infused Ethnography

This book is an excellent ethnographic dive into the low-wage migrant worker community in Great Yarmouth, exploring their living and working conditions in an already deprived part of the UK. The authors come at this from a legal lens, but bring in interactions with area NGOs to demonstrate how many problems that are traditionally thought of as legal are solved informally by support networks. I do wish there were more macro statistics throughout the book to help ground the scale of the issues that are surfaced, but overall this is a unique, insightful look at an understudied EU expatriate community

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