Dear all,
I find this call utterly infuriating, and seeing that it comes from one
institution with very high prestige in the field of migration studies and
labor migration makes the situation even more alarming.
The situation of casualization of academic labor at present is soar enough,
with many of us globe-trotting between projects every few months or - if
we're lucky - every few years. With a lot falling into the trap of
zero-hour teaching jobs or other arrangements to make ends meet, junior
academics are in many countries literally working poor. Those few of us who
are lucky enough to get on board what is celebrated as "post-doctoral
experience" usually have to do it on a completely different subject than
our PhD and be data collectors for a new employer. This extends the time in
which we are not able to publish from our dissertation, and are then
threatened by the "publish or perish" incentive. But now we see that thanks
to COMPAS the exploiitation is taken to yet another level. Within this
fantastic project advertised here, a job that would be done by a full-time
and fully-funded PhD or a post-doc, people are not even treated as academic
staff but as CASUAL RESEARCHERS (how convenient!!).
So for a job that would require doing fieldwork and interviews for project,
with a significant number of respondents, they will not be receiving any
visibility, no recognition whatsoever (even if they might be supposed to
contribute to the data analysis), and only minimal hourly payment. And what
is required here: 20-60 interviews with migrants and 8-24 employers, in 12
weeks (!!) transcribed and encoded (!!!) i.e. The full-time labor would
translate (in my experience e.g. in Ireland in present), into a 2 years'
post-doctoral contract, including a desk, benefits, healthcare insurance,
and pension, plus your name on the publications and recognition of your
work, here would be done as a completely casual labor. So thanks to COMPAS
from now on we don't need to pay to phd or post-doctoral fellows, we can
call everyone a 'casual researcher" instead!
Of couse, there's not specified requirement of credentials or fieldwork,
one would say. But that's the tricky thing: reading the call, it requires a
particular type of individual - one with significant previous research
experience, ethical awareness, confidence in recruiting and interviewing
informants, and very particular language expertise in the field. I.e. that
would be an individual at least after an MA with a developed fieldwork and
network among migrants (!!). So guess who would that be - most obviously a
migrant academic during or even after a PhD-level fieldwork with migrants,
who tries to stay afloat and scrap some money to stay on board while doing
their PhD and/or applying for jobs.So, researching slave labor migration
with the methods of enforcing slave (academic) labor migration is the way
to go - so once again, thanks COMPAS and Oxford for teaching us all a great
lesson here!
Sincerely,
Mariya
Mariya P Ivancheva
Post-doctoral research fellow
Project Equal Opportunities in Working, Learning and Caring, IRC
UCD School of Social Justice, James Joyce Library, Office 505, Belfield,
Dublin 4
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On 12 November 2014 14:29, Gil Middleton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> COMPAS is looking to recruit a minimum of five casual researchers to carry
> out in-depth interviews with irregular migrants from various ethnic
> backgrounds (Australian, Brazilian, Pakistani, Ukrainian, and Turkish) as
> well as with relevant employers in three different locations in England
> (London, probably Hertfordshire, and another city, exact locations to be
> confirmed). These interviews are to be conducted as part of a three-year
> ESRC-funded project called 'Does Immigration Enforcement Matter (DIEM)?'
>
> The overarching theme of the study is to examine the impact of
> increasingly rigid legislation and robust enforcement measures on irregular
> migration. It aims to find out if and how irregular immigrants navigate
> controls; to investigate the interaction between irregular immigrants'
> strategies, employer practices and enforcement measures; to show how
> enforcement measures are perceived by immigrant communities; to explore the
> impact of enforcement on irregular migrants' access to fundamental rights;
> and to understand the political, practical and ethical limits to law
> enforcement in order to highlight its impact and effectiveness.
>
> Candidates should have excellent communication and interviewing skills and
> an ability to work independently to deliver results.
>
> Deadline for applications will be the 19th November 2014 at 12 noon UK
> time.
>
> Full details attached.
>
>
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