‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers

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Trlifajová, Lucie - Formánková, Lenka
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers.
Work Employment and Society. Roč. 37, č. 6 (2023), s. 1583-1604. ISSN 0950-0170. E-ISSN 1469-8722
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA17-21259S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378025
Klíčová slova: agency * biographic-narrative method * gender * Central and Eastern Europe * migration * precarity * temporality
Obor OECD: Sociology
Impakt faktor: 3.7, rok: 2022
Způsob publikování: Omezený přístup
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170221092351

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.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0335828