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Work Permits for Temporary Protection Beneficiaries: Precarious Practice Rejected but Why?

Maja Lysienia — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:30:41 +0000

Since the activation of the Temporary Protection Directive, persons displaced from Ukraine have been granted generous rights, including the right to be employed. However, some Member States have imposed a work permit requirement on temporary protection beneficiaries, despite concerns that such measures contribute to increasing precarity among migrant workers. Requiring

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Migrant Women in Times of Crisis: Vulnerability and Agency Among Domestic Workers

Emma Gauttier — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:11:07 +0000

Due to a lack of professional recognition and an often precarious legal status, migrant domestic workers were especially impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Many faced job losses and financial hardships almost overnight. Moreover, support measures were not adapted to their needs and reinforced the longstanding failure to acknowledge the work

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Vulnerabilization of Migrant Workers During Crises

Claudine Burton-Jeangros — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:39:24 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic hit undocumented migrant workers, a population already living in precarious and particularly hard circumstances. Often overlooked and misunderstood, their lives remain largely invisible with limited data available to illustrate their struggles, especially in times of crisis. In Geneva, Switzerland, many grappled to cope with losing their jobs,

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Precarious Work in Switzerland: Experiences of Crises of a Hospitality Worker

Livia Tomás — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:30:34 +0000

Low wages, limited access to social protection and benefits, temporary or seasonal labor contracts, and employment through recruitment agencies or subcontractors are all defining characteristics of precarious work. The COVID-19 pandemic – marked by constant uncertainty and rapid change – has exacerbated precarious working conditions for many, especially for migrants.

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Have We Forgotten Our Urban Essential Workers?

Florence Testorelli — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:21:23 +0000

Urban essential workers are employed in key sectors, providing essential services such as public transport, cleaning, childcare and access to food. Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic shed light on these mostly invisible workers. However, low wages, poor working conditions and low social recognition still characterize their daily work. Despite

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The (Im)Mobility Turn and the COVID‐19 Pandemic

David Cairns — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:53:05 +0000

The COVID‐19 pandemic brought much of the world to a standstill, but not all mobility stopped. Despite restrictions reducing tourism and other forms of movement, some people, including migrant workers in agriculture, continued to travel out of necessity. However, since societies reopened, non-essential mobility has bounced back without controversy, while

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The Problems of Protection: Lessons from Migrant Vulnerability

Bridget Anderson — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:18:00 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic showed we are all vulnerable in a crisis, but also that crisis can deepen inequality. The virus infected (and continues to infect) regardless of race, class and passport, and this is precisely what exposes race, class, and passport as the inequality-producing mechanisms they are. Migrants – or

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