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"Die Autorin unserer Studie, die Sozialwissenschaftlerin Sandra Siebenhüter, leuchtet in das Blackbox-System Leiharbeit hinein. Sie hat qualitative Daten recherchiert, die es so bisher noch nicht gab und die so manche politische und ökonomische Erfolgsmeldungen in einem zweifelhaften Licht erscheinen lassen.
Durch 116 Interviews mit einer Vielzahl von Akteuren aller relevanten Bereiche der Leiharbeit hat sie tiefe Einblicke in den (Leih-)Arbeitsalltag von Menschen in Deutschland erhalten. Durch den starken Bezug zur Rolle von Leiharbeitern mit Migrationshintergrund, hat sie sich in der Studie den alltäglichen Problemen einer Gruppe genähert, die in den Statistiken der Bundesagentur gar nicht explizit erscheint, obwohl sie in der Leiharbeit überproportional häufig vertreten ist."

"In this paper, we use repeated cross-sectional survey data to study the labour market performance of refugees across several EU countries and over time. In the first part, we document that labour market outcomes for refugees are consistently worse than those for other comparable migrants. The gap remains sizeable even after controlling for individual characteristics as well as for unobservables using a rich set of fixed effects and interactions between area of origin, entry cohort and destination country. Refugees are 11.6 percent less likely to have a job and 22.1 percent more likely to be unemployed than migrants with similar characteristics. Moreover, their income, occupational quality and labour market participation are also relatively weaker. This gap persists until about 10 years after immigration. In the second part, we assess the role of asylum policies in explaining the observed refugee gap. We conduct a difference-in-differences analysis that exploits the differential timing of dispersal policy enactment across European countries: we show that refugee cohorts exposed to these polices have persistently worse labour market outcomes. Further, we find that entry cohorts admitted when refugee status recognition rates are relatively high integrate better into the host country labour market."

"This report provides an overview of the ways in which EU and EEA Member States have regulated their social security frameworks in relation to short-term third country national (TCN) migrant workers. It presents the result of an extensive mapping exercise carried out in 24 EU Member States, as well as Iceland and Norway, focussing on the relationship between migration and the social security coverage of different categories of short-term third-country national workers (for example, posted workers, intra-corporate transfers, seasonal workers, temporary agency workers, high-level professionals and self-employed). While every worker in the EU, in principle, is and should be covered by social security, certain groups of workers are subject to uncertainties and gaps in coverage. Third-country nationals who work in the EU for a short time are among the workers often subject to exclusions from social security coverage or not covered for certain risks. The individual country reports show that, as a general rule, employers who employ short-term third-country national migrant workers are supposed to pay social security and health care contributions as they do for regularly hired local workers. In the various jurisdictions this general rule is subject to various exceptions and restrictions. The internal and external fragmentation underlined by the variety of legal sources addressing social security issues, as well as the diversity of approaches potentially raises difficulties for the navigation of the respective systems. And while this seems justified in light of Member States' discretion in immigration and labour law, more legal certainty should be aimed for to better protect the workers experiencing this fragmentation and lack of coverage."

"This report provides an overview of the ways in which EU and EEA Member States have regulated the immigration of third-country nationals who enter their territory for the purpose of work. Its focus is on short-term migrant workers and it presents the results of an extensive mapping exercise carried out by national experts from 23 EU and two EEA countries in collaboration with the ETUI. The focus was on the interaction between national immigration law regimes and labour market access, as well as the employment rights of different categories of short-term third-country-national workers, depending on their immigration status. Special emphasis was placed on certain categories of workers discussed most often in the context of EU mobility, namely, seasonal workers, temporary agency workers and posted workers from third countries. In comparison with the local workforce, third-country national workers, especially short-term, find themselves in a more vulnerable situation because of the dependence of their labour market status on their immigration status. This report explores the immigration pathways available to third-country national workers and provides an overview of the conditions for short-term workers' entry, stay and leave in each national system, depending on category. It then looks at these workers' general working conditions as regulated by national law."

"When discussing exploitation in workplaces, governments typically deploy a rhetoric of personal responsibility: they place attention on employers who take advantage of workers, or on workers who choose non-standard, precarious work arrangements. On this account, the responsibility of the state is to address the harm inflicted by private actors.
This book questions that approach and develops the concept of 'state-mediated structural injustice at work': a phenomenon which manifests when legislation that has an appearance of legitimacy, in fact has very damaging effects for large numbers of people and results in structures of exploitation at work. Using a series of examples such as migrant workers, captive workers, people under welfare conditionality schemes, and other precarious workers, Mantouvalou shows how the law creates these structures of injustice, entrenching long-term, standard, and routine exploitation. She also assesses these examples against human rights principles, including civil, political, economic, and social rights. The ultimate aim of the work is to show that these structures routinely lead to workers' exploitation which may in turn give rise to state responsibility for human rights violations and to argue that there is a pressing need for reform."

"The labour market's changing landscape is seeing a rise in mental health stressors. This review looks at psychosocial risks (PSRs) and adverse mental health outcomes in European workers with low socioeconomic status (LSES). It highlights the COVID-19 pandemic and digitalisation as strong external trends impacting the presence of PSRs and mental health at work for this specific group of workers.
The review offers 10 good practices from companies and stakeholders that moderate the extent of adverse health outcomes in LSES workers. The findings inform future research directions and propose policy pointers to improve management and prevention of PSRs for the group of LSES workers."

"Research on collective organisation of migrant platform workers is mostly concerned with ride-hailing and delivery logistics, where explicit forms of collective action have been visible. This paper addresses the issue of the self-organisation of migrant workers on cleaning platforms through a case study of Helpling cleaners in Berlin. In the paper, we ask why the attempts for organising workers have failed to scale up beyond the informal exchange of information and tactics among the workers. Our article argues that the spatial dispersion of work across the city, lack of occupational identity, and the legal framework of work, make worker organising difficult for cleaners in Berlin. Still, these factors do not lead to an absence of collective practices. Helpling workers in our study gather in online groups, can receive help and exchange in a community centre, and have been in touch with political groups. Based on the case study, the article discusses potentials and hurdles for the development of collective counter-power."

"The Atlas of Migration is a reference tool. It provides the latest harmonised and validated data on migration for the 27 EU Member States and for 171 countries and territories around the world. The Atlas offers a comprehensive overview of migration trends globally. It brings together data from various reliable sources such as Eurostat, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs of the European Commission, the World Bank and many others. The 2023 edition of the Atlas features a thematic chapter on solidarity trends towards all people displaced from Ukraine, examining public support trends for individuals affected by Russia's war of aggression."

"Migrant protest has proliferated worldwide in the last two decades, explicitly posing questions of identity, rights, and equality in a globalized world. Nonetheless, such mobilizations are considered anomalies in social movement studies, and political sociology more broadly, due to 'weak interests' and a particularly disadvantageous position of 'outsiders' to claim rights connected to citizenship. In an attempt to address this seeming paradox, this book explores the interactions and spaces shaping the emergence, trajectory, and fragmentation of migrant protest in unfavourable contexts of marginalization. Such a perspective unveils both the odds of precarious mobilizations, and the ways they can be temporarily overcome. While adopting the encompassing terminology of 'migrant', the book focusses on precarious migrants, including both asylum seekers and 'illegalized' migrants."