UID:
almahu_9949731152602882
Format:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-5292-2959-6
Series Statement:
Bristol Studies in Law and Social Justice
Content:
No detailed description available for "Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers".
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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 -- A. Introduction -- 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 -- A. Introduction -- 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.
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3. GYROS' approach -- E. Conclusion -- 4 Employment -- A. Introduction -- 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 -- F. Conclusion -- 5 Housing -- A. Introduction -- 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 -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- A. Introduction -- B. Welfare benefits -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- A. Introduction -- B. EU nationals' access to healthcare in the UK.
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1. Access to healthcare -- 2. The position of those under the European Union Settlement Scheme -- C. GYROS health survey, 2015 and 2022 -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Administrative issues -- 3. Arranging access to fit notes or communication with employers -- 4. Applying for benefits -- 5. Substantive healthcare issues -- 6. GYROS' role -- E. Conclusion -- 8 Drawing the Threads Together -- A. Introduction -- 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 -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- E. Conclusion -- 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.
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1. Data collection and its limits -- 1.1 Data collection -- 1.2 Limitations of the data -- 2. Data analysis: adaptive grounded theory -- Appendix II Data Collection -- 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 -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5292-2956-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.56687/9781529229592
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