Migrant workers: a threat to "our European way of life"? Or vulnerable and exploited?
2019
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40-42
migrant worker ; discrimination ; EU policy ; irregular migrant ; legal aspect ; trade union document
Migration
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"Discriminations against migrants, engrained in the law, have an undoubtable impact on the quality of their working conditions. And because discrimination creates fiercer competition for jobs, this could, by a kind of boomerang effect, be damaging to employment as a whole. Are these migrants a threat to the “European way of life” or should they simply be seen as people living and working in harsher, exploitative conditions?
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