Informalization of the Economy, Re-commodification of Labour and Migration

Abstract

The aim of this project is to critically review the actual concepts on informal economy, and its relation to structural changes of the labour market, and migration. The project also has an ambition to highlight the borderline between formal and informal economy, and to develop a theoretical framework, suitable for empirical research on informal economy in its relation to the re-commodification of labour and migration.

Keywords

Informal/irregular, Regulation/deregulation, Segmentation, informal economy, re-commodification

Publications

Likic-Brboric, Branka, Slavnic, Zoran and Woolfson, Charles (2013). Labour Migration and Informalisation: East meets West, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Volume 33, Issue 11/12,

Slavnic, Z. (2013), ?Working in the ?Bleak House? ? an autoethnographic study of ethnic segmentation, precarization and informalization in the London hotel industry?, Hospitality & Society 3: 1, pp. 7?24, doi: 10.1386/hosp.3.1.7_1

Likic-Brboric, Branka, Zoran Slavnic, and Charles Woolfson. (2012) “Informalisering – Migration Och Arbete I Ett Utvidgat Europa.” In Migrationens Och Etnicitetens Epok. Kritiska Perspektiv I Etnicitets- Och Migrationsstudier, edited by Magnus Dahlstedt and Anders Neergaard. 261 – 80. Stockholm: Liber.

Slavnic, Zoran (2010), “Political economy of informalisation”, European Societies, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp.3-25

Slavnic, Zoran (2010), “Struggle for survival in the deregulated market: Re-commodification and Informalisation of the taxi sector in Stockholm?, Forum for Social Economics, Published online 12 January 2010, DOI 10.1007/s12143-009-9060-y

Slavnic, Zoran (2009), “La informalización y la economía política de la reestructuración”, Migración y desarrollo Vol. 13, 5-26.

Urban, Susanne, and Zoran Slavnic (2008), “Etnisk märkning av taxibranschen”, Dansk Sociologi 19 (1):53 – 72.

Slavnic, Zoran, and Susanne Urban (2008), “Socio-Economic Trends in the Swedish Taxi Sector ? Deregulation, Recommodification, Ethnification”, International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS) 10 (1):76 – 94.

Slavnic, Zoran (2007), “Informalization of the Economy and the Recomodification of Labour”, in Erik Berggren, Branka Likic-Brboric, Gulay Toksoz and Nicos Trimikliniotis (eds.), Irregular Migration, Informal Labour and Community in Europe, Maastricht: Shaker Publishing.

Slavnic, Z.. (2006) “Ekonomins informalisering och arbetets rekomodifiering.” in Kors och tvärs, edited by E. Gunnarsson, A. Neergard, and A. Nilsson. Stockholm: Normal.

Slavnic, Z. (2002). Informell ekonomi och välfärdssamhället i ovandling. Marginalisering eller integration? Invandrares företagande i svensk retorik och praktik. En förskningsrapport. A. Rosing, C. Råberg and E. Sundin. Stockholm, NUTEK,.