In contrast to the main body of literature focusing on irregular migrants' counterstrategies, this article explores regular migrant workers' practices to renew their residence permit in an attempt to circumvent structural hurdles due to the restrictive Italian legislative framework. Studying migrants' agency in a socioeconomic context, characterized by high unemployment rates and extensive informal working patterns, I thus distinguish three main counterstrategies: (1) the use of their informal networks to falsify their working relations; (2) the possibility of starting up an individual firm; and (3) taking advantage of structural “loopholes.”.
“Asking Around”: Immigrants' Counterstrategies to Renew Their Residence Permit in Times of Economic Crisis in Italy / I. Dimitriadis. - In: JOURNAL OF IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE STUDIES. - ISSN 1556-2948. - 16:3(2018), pp. 275-292.
Titolo: | “Asking Around”: Immigrants' Counterstrategies to Renew Their Residence Permit in Times of Economic Crisis in Italy |
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Parole Chiave: | Bogus self-employment; construction sector; counterstrategies; false documents; immigration; migration policies; street-level bureaucracy; unemployment |
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: | Settore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generale Settore SPS/09 - Sociologia dei Processi economici e del Lavoro Settore SPS/10 - Sociologia dell'Ambiente e del Territorio |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2018 |
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Tipologia: | Article (author) |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2016.1273433 |
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