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A choice of entrepreneurship or a survival choice A choice of entrepreneurship or a survival choice
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Current and changing attitudes to employing workers Current and changing attitudes to employing workers
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Employment decision making Employment decision making
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Responding to worker shortages Responding to worker shortages
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Obligations and expressions of solidarity Obligations and expressions of solidarity
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Balancing immigration rules, business needs and sanctions Balancing immigration rules, business needs and sanctions
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Looking for workers, relying on trust Looking for workers, relying on trust
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Ethnicity, nationality and gender as core characteristics Ethnicity, nationality and gender as core characteristics
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Working conditions – the employer’s perspective Working conditions – the employer’s perspective
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Five Ethnic enclave entrepreneurs
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Published:January 2016
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Abstract
This chapter provides insights into the experiences, businesses and business practices of minority ethnic employers from migrant backgrounds. Although we review their routes into business, our main focus is on their employment practices, including the recruitment of workers; the impact of immigration controls, including sanctions on those practices, where relevant, the reasons for employing undocumented migrants and the ways in which ethnicity and perceptions of workers based on stereotypes informed those practices. The chapter argues that motives for employing undocumented migrants are complex and that employers consider the obligations of family, kinship and geography, the sense of political solidarity and their need for trust within the employment relationship. It questions the usefulness of the sanctions regime in relation to employer practices. The chapter shows how some employers held stereotyped views of what constitutes a good worker and which workers were to be trusted. In recruitment a reliance on social networks replicated and cemented existing social relationships, so that labour forces were produced and reproduced around particular social categories, including ethnicity and gender.
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