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Negotiating Solidarity

Collective Actions for Precarious Migrant Workers’ Rights in Sweden

Nedžad Mešić

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

Linköping Studies in Arts and Science No. 707, 2017 Department of Social and Welfare Studies Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden

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Linköping Studies in Arts and Science No. 707 Department of Social and Welfare Studies

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Precarious migrant workers are today an everyday part of the Swedish labour market. They often work under conditions of vulnerability, on temporary contracts and with few rights. This dissertation examines collective actions aiming to improve the precarious conditions of three categories of migrant workers – discriminated, seasonal and undocumented. The examined collective actors are composed of formal organisations such as non-governmental organisations, organisations founded on ethnic grounds and trade unions, but also more temporary groups and networks. The analysis foregrounds contemporary societal, economical and legal transfigurations that create the conditions for collaboration among the actors and the negotiations which they conduct. In four articles, the author illustrates that there is a broad range of collective actors who are prepared to assist precarious migrant workers and to negotiate and at best improve their labour market conditions. These actors face many and difficult challenges.

However, as the dissertation demonstrates, their engagement has made the reality of precarious migrant work visible to the public, legitimised the workers’ needs and enabled them to claim their rights.

Nedzad Mesic is a researcher and teacher at the Institute of Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University. This is his doctoral dissertation.

I avhandlingen undersöks kollektiva handlingar som syftar till att förbättra situationen för prekära migrantarbetare på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Avhandlingen består av fyra artiklar, som under- söker de kollektiva handlingar som initieras med utgångspunkt i de osäkra arbetsvillkor som tre kategorier av migrantarbetare möter – diskriminerade, säsongsarbetare och papperslösa. Bland de kollektiva aktörer som undersöks ingår formella organisationer såsom frivilligorganisationer, etniska organisationer och fackliga organisationer, men även löst sammanhållna grupper och nätverk.

I förgrunden står samtida samhälleliga, ekonomiska och rättsliga villkor för samarbetet mellan aktörerna samt de förhandlingar som de bedriver. Sammantaget visar avhandlingen att det finns en bred skara av kollektiva aktörer som är i stånd att förhandla om utsatta migrantarbetares arbetsmarknadsvillkor. Aktörernas engagemang står visserligen inför många och svåra utmaningar. Samtidigt visar avhandlingen att engagemanget har synliggjort prekära migranters arbete, legitimerat arbetarnas behov och berett vägar för att minska migrantarbetares utsatthet.

Nedžad Mešić är forskare och lärare vid Institutet för Forskning om Migration, Etnicitet och Samhälle (REMESO) vid Linköpings universitet. Detta är hans doktorsavhandling.

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