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Last hired and first fired? The impact of the economic downturn on low-paid Bulgarian migrant workers in London

✍ Scribed by Kavita Datta


Book ID
102349786
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
148 KB
Volume
23
Category
Article
ISSN
0954-1748

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✦ Synopsis


By drawing upon the research carried out with low-paid Bulgarian migrants in London during the peak of the economic downturn, this paper highlights the multi-faceted economic and social impacts of the recession on Bulgarian migrant men and women and identifies the strategies that they devised in order to cope with the downturn. The paper concludes by considering the key policy implications of the economic downturn on migration.