Rawlinson, P and Fussey, P (2010) Crossing borders: migration and survival in the capital's informal marketplace. Criminal Justice Matters, 79 (1). pp. 6-7. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09627250903569858
Rawlinson, P and Fussey, P (2010) Crossing borders: migration and survival in the capital's informal marketplace. Criminal Justice Matters, 79 (1). pp. 6-7. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09627250903569858
Rawlinson, P and Fussey, P (2010) Crossing borders: migration and survival in the capital's informal marketplace. Criminal Justice Matters, 79 (1). pp. 6-7. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09627250903569858
Abstract
Major discourses on UK migration tend to be framed by simplistic dichotomies which currently inform policy, media, and public debates: migrants as parasites or providers, exploiters or exploited, victims or criminals. However, our ongoing ethnographic research amongst post-communist populations (PCPs), in particular those from the accession and new accession states such as Lithuania, Poland, Romania, etc., and London's informal and criminal economies reveals a more complex and worrying set of realities. Static boundaries are more or less non-existent as many migrants find themselves, for myriad reasons, constantly traversing the borders between the capital's formal, informal, and criminal markets. This, in turn, requires a constant shifting of identity and status as a means of successfully negotiating passage back and forth across these economic margins. These fluctuations present a challenge to the various agencies within criminal justice and the third sector whose competing agendas are largely based on stable categorisations of migrants.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2012 16:07 |
Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2024 16:50 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/4811 |