The UK has had a Temporary Migrant Worker Programme (TMWP) for agricultural ‘guestworkers’ since 1943. Most recently referred to as the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS), SAWS accommodated 25,000 workers per annum by its 2004 peak. However, the UK government then announced the scheme’s closure (initially for 2011, but then delayed until 2014). This paper examines employers’ response to this closure and, specifically, juxtaposes the academic critiques of TMWPs with the very strong employer preference for them. This preference, the paper concludes, is about the way in which TMWPs allow labour to be more readily and more extensively controlled, and, also allow employers access to ‘better quality’ workers. Considering these benefits o...
Background: Following Brexit, and the ending of freedom of movement, labour supply crises have emerg...
This article discusses the United Kingdom (UK) 2019 Seasonal Worker Visa, which was adopted to addre...
After a long period of decline in the Global North, migrant worker policies are making a comeback on...
The UK has had a Temporary Migrant Worker Programme (TMWP) for agricultural ‘guestworkers’ since 194...
Despite temporary migration programmes (TMPs) being heralded as achieving a triple win – whereby the...
Despite temporary migration programmes (TMPs) being heralded as achieving a triple win – whereby the...
Despite temporary migration programmes (TMPs) being heralded as achieving a triple win – whereby th...
The referendum result in Britain in 2016 and the potential loss of EU labour in the advent of a ‘har...
The referendum result in Britain in 2016 and the potential loss of EU labour in the advent of a “har...
The referendum result in Britain in 2016 and the potential loss of EU labour in the advent of a “har...
In Britain, international migrants have very recently become the major workforce in labour-intensive...
Low-wage migrant workers have been widely studied because of the value they appear to bring to emplo...
Employment of temporary workers has been affected by new legislation in 2002 and the stabilisation o...
Ph. D. Thesis.Most seasonal workers on UK farms currently come from countries in Eastern Europe. Man...
Since Hoggart and Mendoza's paper on ‘African immigrant workers in Spanish agriculture' in Sociologi...
Background: Following Brexit, and the ending of freedom of movement, labour supply crises have emerg...
This article discusses the United Kingdom (UK) 2019 Seasonal Worker Visa, which was adopted to addre...
After a long period of decline in the Global North, migrant worker policies are making a comeback on...
The UK has had a Temporary Migrant Worker Programme (TMWP) for agricultural ‘guestworkers’ since 194...
Despite temporary migration programmes (TMPs) being heralded as achieving a triple win – whereby the...
Despite temporary migration programmes (TMPs) being heralded as achieving a triple win – whereby the...
Despite temporary migration programmes (TMPs) being heralded as achieving a triple win – whereby th...
The referendum result in Britain in 2016 and the potential loss of EU labour in the advent of a ‘har...
The referendum result in Britain in 2016 and the potential loss of EU labour in the advent of a “har...
The referendum result in Britain in 2016 and the potential loss of EU labour in the advent of a “har...
In Britain, international migrants have very recently become the major workforce in labour-intensive...
Low-wage migrant workers have been widely studied because of the value they appear to bring to emplo...
Employment of temporary workers has been affected by new legislation in 2002 and the stabilisation o...
Ph. D. Thesis.Most seasonal workers on UK farms currently come from countries in Eastern Europe. Man...
Since Hoggart and Mendoza's paper on ‘African immigrant workers in Spanish agriculture' in Sociologi...
Background: Following Brexit, and the ending of freedom of movement, labour supply crises have emerg...
This article discusses the United Kingdom (UK) 2019 Seasonal Worker Visa, which was adopted to addre...
After a long period of decline in the Global North, migrant worker policies are making a comeback on...