Amen, to everything in Mariya's email. This is truly infuriating.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Cristiana Strava <
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> Amen, to everything in Mariya's email. This is truly infuriating.
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Mariya Ivancheva <
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>
>> 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
>> [log in to unmask]
>> +353(1)716-7804
>> www.ucd.ie/socialjustice
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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