Soziologie
RTG 2951 Working Paper Series launched!
We are excited to announce the publication of the first three RTG 2951 Working Papers!
The RTG 2951 Working Paper Series showcases ongoing research on cross-border labour markets conducted by all members of RTG 2951 – including Principal Investigators, Doctoral Researchers, Postdoctoral Researchers, and Associates.
The series aims to share work in progress, new research findings, and presentations quickly and openly, supporting the rapid exchange of ideas within the research community.
The papers are available for download on our website.
In RTG 2951 Working Paper Nr.2, Sandyha A.S. explores a well-established binary in sociology – status / contracts – to examine the relevance of status and contracts in the making of a legal migrant worker. Focusing on low-skilled labour migrants in temporary work contracts and building on recent studies and her own empirical research she claims that status and contract interact meaningfully in the migrant labour process. This, she argues, creates the ‘migrant condition’ or a simultaneous existence and interaction of status-based dependencies and purposive work agreements, resulting in a unique form of precarity experienced by migrant workers on the move.
In RTG 2951 Working Paper Nr. 3, Christian Dustmann, Sebastian Otten, Uta Schönberg, and Jan Stuhler argue that regional effects are composites of effects that address fundamental questions in the immigration debate but remain unidentified with repeated cross-sectional data. Instead, they provide a unifying empirical framework that decomposes the regional effects of immigration into their underlying components and show how these are identifiable from data that track workers over time. The empirical application illustrates that such analysis yields a far more informative picture of immigration’s effects on wages, employment, and occupational upgrading.
In RTG 2951 Working Paper Nr. 4, Ursula Mense-Petermann examines how cross-border labour markets come into existence. She aims to contribute to theorising cross-border labour markets as a phenomenon in their own right by addressing the question of what facilitates their emergence, functioning, and consolidation. To answer this question, she discusses research on migration infrastructures, the sociology of markets, and logistics, and offers an integrated heuristic model that aims to theorise the conditions enabling cross-border labour markets.
Stay tuned for more papers and insights from the RTG 2951 network!