Well said Mariya. This is a disgrace and just another version of exploiting junior academics. Might as well just ask these casual researchers to write an auto ethnography - would provide fruitful findings for any project on labour migration .
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> On 12 Nov 2014, at 17:03, cristiana strava <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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 <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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>> PhD Candidate (SOAS 2015)
>> Doctoral Fellow with the Max Planck Research Group "Objects in the Contact
>> Zone"
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