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Employer sanctions: The impact of workplace raids and fines on undocumented migrants and ethnic enclave employers

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The context of this article is the use of employer sanctions, in the form of raids and fines on businesses found to be employing people who do not have permission to work in the UK, as a method of in-border immigration control. Drawing on qualitative interviews with undocumented migrants and ethnic enclave employers in London, this article examines the impact of sanctions from the perspectives of those who have been or are most likely to be affected. More specifically the article sheds light on individual experiences of and strategies against immigration enforcement raids, and the effect of raids on the labour market, conditions of work and more widely, on local community relations. The paper concludes that there is a disjuncture between the real impact of sanctions and at least some of the stated policy aims.

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Series Title

Critical Social Policy

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Publisher

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications., 2015

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0261-0183

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Volume 35, Issue 1 February 2015, pages 110-132

Subject(s)

Immigration policy
Employer sanctions
Ethnic enclave employers
Immigration enforcement

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