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2024-02-23
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Oh dear, the reality is so different than I thought
Eastern low-skilled migration to Western Europe is an ongoing, yet powerful topic in migration studies. This study looks into how the brokers offer in/ opportunities through facilitation and control, ultimately affecting the migrants' migration trajectories. The study combines a review of the literature with actual information acquired through interviews with Romanian migrants, drawing on a conceptual framework that sees brokers as bridges of in/opportunity. According to my findings, intermediaries of labor migration are essential in easing the migration process, lowering the hurdles and expenses related to migration by providing useful information, resources, and help to migrants through their expertise, language abilities, and network connections. They play the role of facilitators, simplifying the procedure and enabling migrants to take advantage of mobility opportunities.
Nevertheless, this same study also emphasizes the control that intermediaries have over migratory paths. They control migrants' experiences and outcomes by steering them toward particular employment opportunities, limiting their access to necessities like housing and transportation, and exerting control over their decision-making processes. This control then leads to migrant workers having unstable working conditions, receiving unfair treatment, and having little agency.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen