Albanian migrants’ career pathways and their responses to the challenges of the economic crisis in Italy

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ID7843435
AutoresErka Çaro (0000-0001-9183-9642, University of Tirana, autor de correspondencia), Sonila Danaj (0000-0002-0582-7125, University of Jyväskylä)
Año2023
Volumen49
Número11
Páginas2760-2778
Fecha de publicación2023-07-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew Community (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2022.2076660
OpenAlexW4293069405
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas59

This article explores the career pathways and work practices of Albanian labour migrants in Italy during the economic crisis. It shows how long-term migrants utilise resources accumulated from the early experiences of their (often) informal migratory pathway to address the crisis-induced structural and economic challenges. The questions we ask are: What career pathways have Albanian migrants followed while navigating the Italian labour market? What practices have they employed to respond to the challenges of the economic crisis? Through a biographical approach, we find that rather than victimising their own position, migrants have deployed different resources accumulated from the early stages of their migratory pathways, which they have combined to produce various practices of resilience, reworking and resistance against these new crisis-related challenges. Among them, return to informality and moral contract arrangements have become common practice. We argue that even though they considered informal contractual arrangements and other practices of resilience as provisional, the impact of these crisis-induced experiences is noticeable in the aftermath of the crisis as partially informal and, therefore, precarious arrangements have become established terms of employment for migrant workers. Our findings show that even permanent or naturalised migrants remain precarious and are not immune to the crisis-induced labour market restructuring

Career Pathways · Economic growth · Economic restructuring · Economics · Financial crisis · Political science · Psychological resilience · Restructuring · Social science · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy