Migrant construction workers in times of crisis : worker agency, (im)mobility practices and masculine identities among Albanians in Southern Europe / / Iraklis Dimitriadis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910639900603321
• Autore: Dimitriadis Iraklis
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 9783031187988; 9783031187971
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 pages)
• Disciplina: 304.8094965
• Soggetti: Foreign workers - Europe, Southern; Albania Emigration and immigration; Europe, Southern Emigration and immigration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- References -- 2: Contexts, Methods, and Analytical Framework -- Albanian Emigration -- A Brief Overview on Immigration and Integration in Italy and Greece -- Residential Construction and Migrant Labour -- The Italian Construction Sector -- The Greek Construction Sector -- Research Design and Methods -- Data Analysis -- Milan and Athens -- Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks -- Migration Processes Through Different Levels of Analysis -- Key Theories and Concepts -- The Role of Migrant Networks in Getting Jobs and the Different Forms of Capitals to Access Resources -- Construction Workers' Skills and Social Identities -- References -- 3: Migrant Construction Workers' Agency in Times of Economic Recession -- Individual and Collective Agency of Migrant Construction Workers -- Increasing Mobility Power to Avoid Poor Work Conditions and Unemployment -- Differentiation of Social Ties to Avoid Entrapment in Ethnic Social Networks -- Getting Multiple Skills and Escaping from Penalised Trades and Strong Professional Identities -- Mobility Across Work Statuses: Neither Powerful Nor Powerless Own-Account Employed Workers -- Gaining ; Benefits Through Informal Own-Account Work -- Work Status Jumping as Career Advancement -- Work Status Jumping as Enforced Mobility Practice -- Collective Forms of Agency -- Avoiding Unpaid Overtime in a Group -- Collective Bellicose Power to Enforce Verbal Agreements -- Unions Perceived as Weak or Corrupted Organisations, or Service Providers -- Labour Agency Through the Lens of Reciprocal Interests Between Employers and Workers -- Maximising Earnings as Pieceworkers -- Coincidence of Interests Between Informal Workers and Employers -- Alignment of (Informal) Own-Account Workers with Clients -- Conclusions -- References.; 4: (Im)mobility and Coping Practices Among Albanian Construction Workers and Their Families Amidst the Great Recession and Its Aftermath -- Coping Practices and Experiences of (Im)mobility Among Migrants in Times of Crisis, Risk, and Change -- Physical Mobility and Immobility -- Internal Mobility Within Italy and Greece -- Onward Migration, Return to Albania, and Remigration to Italy or Greece -- "Why to Migrate Again?": Spatial Immobility Beyond Views on Limited Agency and Economic Rationality -- Staying Put in the Host Country and Coping with the Implications of Unemployment and Under-Employment -- Cut of Expenses and Getting Assistance Through Institutional Channels and Social Ties -- Solutions to Access Accommodation and Limit Housing Expenses -- Finding Out Solutions for Childcare and Preschool Provisions -- Occupational Mobility -- Conclusions -- References -- 5: The Effects of the Economic Downturn on Masculine Identities and Their Relevance to Migrant Agency and Family Relations -- Job Loss, Male Identities and Breadwinning -- The Intersection of Migration, Culture and Workplace Identities -- The Experience of Unemployment at the Individual Level -- Coping Practices, Gender Norms, and Agency in the Family Sphere -- Men Insisting on or Reworking Their Breadwinning Role -- "Stay at Home to Do What?" Versus "Women Work and We Raise the Children": Masculine Identities, Childcare and Housework -- Rigid, Flexible, and Hybrid Construction of Fatherhood Among Albanian Men -- Accessing Feminised Jobs: Rejection, Adaptability, and Agency -- Conclusions -- References -- 6: Conclusions -- A New Framework for the Study of Migrant Workers' Coping Practices -- Trapped, Average, and Dynamic: Different Types of Migrants Employing Practices of Resilience, Reworking, and Resistance.; Migration in Southern Europe: Integration and Patterns of (Im)mobility in a Comparative Perspective -- Policy Implications and Recommendations -- Migration and Citizenship Policies -- Reforms in Employment Relations in the Construction Sector to Guarantee Fair Employment Conditions and Tackle Informal Economy -- Migrant Workers' Requalification -- Trade Unions -- References -- 7: Epilogue: Migrant Construction Workers Admist COVID-19 Pandemic - A New Crisis Period? -- Introduction -- The Italian and Greek Construction Sectors Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Jobs and Employment Conditions in Residential Construction: The Unexpected Effects of the Pandemic in a Period of Economic Recovery -- Pandemic and Spatial (Im)mobility: The Effects on Daily Practices and the Outcomes on Settled Migrants' Employment -- The Implications of the Pandemic on Migrant Workers' Well-Being, Personal Identities, and Families -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Employment Relations in the Greek Construction Sector -- Appendix B: Migrant Construction Workers - Research Participants 2015-2016 -- Greece -- Italy -- Appendix C: Migrant Construction Workers - Research Participants 2021-2022 -- Greece -- Italy -- Index.