Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers : The House, the Street, the Town / Catherine Barnard, Fiona Costello, and Sarah Fraser Butlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnard, Catherine, author.

Costello, Fiona, author.

Fraser Butlin, Sarah, author.

Series:

Bristol Studies in Law and Social Justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers--European Union countries.

Foreign workers.

Employee rights--European Union countries.

Employee rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Bristol University Press, [2024]

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers".

Contents:

Front Cover

Series page

Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers: The House, the Street, the Town

Copyright information

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes

Notes on the Authors

Abbreviations

Preface

1 Themes, Issues and Methods

A. Introduction

B. Purpose of the research

C. Place, precarity and pragmatism

1. Locating the research in Great Yarmouth

1.1 The Why

1.2 The How

2. Themes

3. Structure of the book

D. Framing of the book

1. Access to justice

2. Legal consciousness and everyday law

3. Pragmatic law

E. Conclusion

2 The Town, the Street, the House and the Advice Charity

B. The Town

1. Introduction

2. Socioeconomic context of the Town

3. Phases of migration to the Town

3.1 Earlier migration to the Town

3.2 Portuguese migration to the Town

3.3 Central and Eastern European migration to the Town

3.4 Romanian and Bulgarian migration to the Town

4. Effect of migration on the Town

C. The Street

D. The House

1. The House and its residents

2. The landlord

E. The advice charity

1. What is GYROS?

2. GYROS and the community advice sector

F. Conclusion

3 Immigration and the European Union Settlement Scheme

B. Withdrawal Agreement

C. European Union Settlement Scheme

1. Legal provisions

2. Applications to the scheme

3. Feeling unwelcome

D. Issues faced by GYROS' clients when applying under the European Union Settlement Scheme

1. Early days

1.1 Lack of awareness and confusion over Brexit dates

1.2 Digital-only application and data concerns

1.3 Establishing proof of residence

2. Current issues

2.1 Late applications

2.2 Advice sharks

2.3 Non-EU family members of EU nationals

2.4 Upgrading from pre-settled to settled status.

3. GYROS' approach

4 Employment

B. Working life in the factories

1. Arrival and first impressions

2. Day-to-day working life in factories

3. The COVID-19 pandemic

C. Issues in the GYROS dataset

1. Help to find work

2. Commonly experienced work problems

2.1 Support to engage with employers

2.2 Reduced hours

2.3 Lack of payslips and nonpayment of wages, sick pay or holiday pay

3. Health issues

D. Employment tribunal cases with similar facts

E. Interface with the law and enforcement

1. EU law requirements

2. GYROS' role in addressing employment issues

5 Housing

B. Housing stock in Great Yarmouth

C. The House and its residents

1. The House

2. First accommodation

3. Interim conclusion

D. Housing issues in the GYROS dataset

2. Refusal to rent to prospective tenants

3. The standard of accommodation

4. Bureaucratic issues, paperwork and debt

5. Tied accommodation

6. Eviction

6.1 The GYROS dataset

6.2 Possession hearings

E. GYROS' response to these problems

F. Social housing

G. Conclusion

6 Welfare Benefits and Debt

B. Welfare benefits

2. EU eligibility and systems

2.1 The requirements

2.2 Current legal challenges to eligibility

3. Universal Credit and Great Yarmouth

4. Digital accessibility and English language skills

5. Benefit overpayments

7. GYROS' response

C. Debt

2. Why are clients in debt?

2.1 Causes of debt

2.2 Cost of debt: the poverty premium

2.3 COVID-19 and debt issues

3. How GYROS responds to the issues

3.1 Advisory work

3.2 Basic needs

D. Conclusion

7 Access to Healthcare

B. EU nationals' access to healthcare in the UK.

1. Access to healthcare

2. The position of those under the European Union Settlement Scheme

C. GYROS health survey, 2015 and 2022

2. Demographic data

3. Survey results

3.1 Access to healthcare

3.2 Health conditions

3.3 COVID-19 vaccination rates

3.4 Interim conclusions

D. Healthcare issues in the GYROS database

2. Administrative issues

3. Arranging access to fit notes or communication with employers

4. Applying for benefits

5. Substantive healthcare issues

6. GYROS' role

8 Drawing the Threads Together

B. Overarching themes

1. Precarity

1.1 Precarity and precariousness

1.2 Bureaucratic bordering

1.3 Problem clustering

(a) Why do problems cluster?

(b) 'Legal' nature of the 'problems'

2. Pragmatism

2.1 The 'how'

2.2 The 'why'

C. Existing literature on the everyday

2. Legal approach

3. Anthropology

3.1 Legal anthropology

3.2 Community-based anthropology

4. Socio-legal studies

D. Pragmatic law

1. The 'how' of pragmatic law

2. The risks of a pragmatic approach to law

4. Role of pragmatic law within the legal landscape

Postscript

1. Data collection and its limits

1.1 Data collection

1.2 Limitations of the data

2. Data analysis: adaptive grounded theory

Interviews

Interviews with residents of the House, a former resident and the landlord

Interviews (semi-structured) and meetings (unstructured) with professionals and community leaders

Interviews with GYROS staff

Focus groups

Focus groups with GYROS staff

Focus groups with EU migrant workers

COVID-19 snapshot conversations

Telephone conversations with GYROS clients, April 2020

Videos with clients of GYROS

Appendix I: Methodology.

1. Data collection and its limits

Appendix II Data Collection

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5292-2959-6