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Rebordering Britain & Britons after Brexit

Mapping social science research on Brexit and migration

3 articles by Sam Scott

'Harvest work, migration, and the structured phenomenology of time'
The paper draws on Rosa's three dimensions of the structured phenomenology of time - daily time, longer time, and historical time - as a conceptual lens to analyse the lived experiences and structural framing of temporary farm work in the UK and to address the question:
The entanglement of employers and political elites in migration policymaking: The case of Brexit and the revival of UK horticulture’s guestworker scheme
Background: Following Brexit, and the ending of freedom of movement, labour supply crises have emerged in the UK. The paper focuses on the horticultural sector, where these crises have been particularly pronounced, with fears of crops being left to rot in the fields now commonplace.
Class, Migration And Bordering at Work: The Case of Precarious Harvest Labour In The Uk
This paper draws on symbolic bordering perspectives as a conceptual frame to highlight practices that shape the reproduction, justification, masking and distancing of precarious work. Via a case-study of the UK harvest labour market in 2020–2021, at a time of Brexit and COVID-19, we use media…