COVID-19 and labour market adjustments: policies, foreign labour and structural shifts.
The paper looks at one of the most dynamically evolving migration processes in contemporary Europe – labour migrants in Poland. Poland, until very recently a typical emigration country started receiving large numbers of migrants only after 2014. This process, however, cannot be explained in supply t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 1226 - 1252 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=176072648&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 176072648 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1369183X 56F jtl: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies issn: 1369183X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2024 vid: 50 iid: 5 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 176072648 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2279745 ppf: 1226 ppct: 26 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 2.1MB tig: atl: COVID-19 and labour market adjustments: policies, foreign labour and structural shifts. aug: au: Kaczmarczyk, Pawel affil: Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw su: Ethnic studies Emigration & immigration COVID-19 pandemic Labor market Poland sug: subj: Poland Ethnic studies Emigration & immigration COVID-19 pandemic Labor market keyword: COVID-19 essential workers labour market adjustment labour market-migration nexus labour migration ab: The paper looks at one of the most dynamically evolving migration processes in contemporary Europe – labour migrants in Poland. Poland, until very recently a typical emigration country started receiving large numbers of migrants only after 2014. This process, however, cannot be explained in supply terms only. In fact, it was also a strong structural demand for foreign workers that played at least an equally important role. This newly established migration system has been tested during the pandemic along with policy adjustments and economic changes. We claim that despite the very fact that the 'essential workers' rhetoric was almost absent in the Polish public discourse, foreign workers played a significant role in securing the continuous operation of many sectors of the economy. The paper shows that the role of migration in Poland has changed along with the transition from a net-sending to a net-receiving country, but still it worked as a safety valve during the pandemic. We argue it was possible because of liberal rules regarding international movement and work abroad. By focusing on the role of exogenous shocks and by considering the very specific migration system in Poland, this paper contributes to the growing literature on the labour market-immigration nexus. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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