培养 "合适的候选人":比利时建筑业移民工人劳动力市场中介的社会嵌入性

IF 4.6 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS
Simon Wuidar, Ludovic Bakebek, William Monteith
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摘要

结构性劳动力短缺增加了西欧劳动力市场对有技能、有证件的移民工人的需求。为此,私营招聘机构在识别、安置和融合移民工人方面发挥着更加重要的作用。有关劳动力中介实践的文献主要集中在为工人和雇主牵线搭桥的商业和合同工作上,而本文则对劳动力中介进行了深入理解,强调了在劳动力短缺背景下中介实践日益增加的社会和关系性质。通过对比利时建筑业中介活动的定性研究,文章展示了私营中介机构如何通过以下方式来培养 "合适的候选人":(1)渗透到移民网络中;(2)使移民工人正规化;(3)帮助他们融入东道国社会。这些研究结果推进了对劳动力中介的进一步理解,超越了传统的牵线搭桥过程。
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Producing ‘The Right Candidate’: The Social Embeddedness of Labour Market Intermediaries for Migrant Workers in the Belgian Construction Sector
Structural labour shortages have increased demand for skilled and documented migrant workers in Western European labour markets. In response, private recruitment agencies are playing a more significant role in the identification, placement and integration of migrant workers. While the literature on labour intermediation practices has largely focused on the commercial and contractual work of matching workers with employers, this article develops an embedded understanding of labour intermediation that foregrounds the increasingly social and relational nature of intermediation practices in contexts of labour shortage. Through a qualitative study of intermediation in the Belgian construction sector, the article demonstrates the ways in which private agencies seek to produce the ‘right candidate’ through (i) the infiltration of migrant networks, (ii) the regularisation of migrant workers and (iii) the facilitation of their integration into host societies. These findings advance an expanded understanding of labour intermediation that transcends the conventional matchmaking process.
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ACS Applied Bio Materials
ACS Applied Bio Materials Chemistry-Chemistry (all)
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