TY - CHAP
T1 - (Im)Mobilities and Informality as Livelihood Strategies in Transnational Social Fields
AU - Fradejas-García, Ignacio
AU - Molina, José Luis
AU - Lubbers, Miranda Jessica
N1 - Acknowledgments:
This work was funded by a doctoral grant to the first author (FPI grant number BES2016-076859) and by the ORBITS project, both funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Spain (MINECO-FEDER: CSO2015-68687-P, 2016-2020). We are grateful for the support of Renáta Hosnedlová and the work of Marian-Gabriel Hâncean and his team in Romania (Bianca Mihăilă, Adelina Stoica and Iulian Oană).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - This chapter explores the relationship between (im)mobility and informality by analyzing how informal practices evolve when people migrate and move within transnational social fields. The livelihood perspective allows us to analyze informality and (im)mobility as strategies that individuals and households perform to make a living, including the role played by institutions. The chapter shows that transnational migrants learn how to navigate and exploit formal rules to get things done by adapting their informal practices to the new context following two parallel processes: informalization and formalization. On the one hand, adapting informality entails learning the unwritten rules and selecting, preserving, and adjusting some informal practices while abandoning others, primarily illegal, illicit, and harmful. On the other hand, the formalization process involves adopting the formal rules of the new context, especially those about the residence and work permits. Thus, transnational networks and geographical mobilities allow migrants to exploit the grey areas of various formal systems that come to contact in making a living.
AB - This chapter explores the relationship between (im)mobility and informality by analyzing how informal practices evolve when people migrate and move within transnational social fields. The livelihood perspective allows us to analyze informality and (im)mobility as strategies that individuals and households perform to make a living, including the role played by institutions. The chapter shows that transnational migrants learn how to navigate and exploit formal rules to get things done by adapting their informal practices to the new context following two parallel processes: informalization and formalization. On the one hand, adapting informality entails learning the unwritten rules and selecting, preserving, and adjusting some informal practices while abandoning others, primarily illegal, illicit, and harmful. On the other hand, the formalization process involves adopting the formal rules of the new context, especially those about the residence and work permits. Thus, transnational networks and geographical mobilities allow migrants to exploit the grey areas of various formal systems that come to contact in making a living.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85124068395
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/57d10870-559b-3761-8ede-8260d6d7e314/
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-82499-0_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-82499-0_2
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85124068395
SN - 978-3-030-82498-3
SN - 978-3-030-82501-0
T3 - International Political Economy Series
SP - 33
EP - 67
BT - Informality, Labour Mobility and Precariousness
A2 - Polese, Abel
CY - Cham
ER -