Preparation / Allocation / Habituation: The Holistic Approach to Migrant Exclusion

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Published: Feb 13, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/scad.15945
Keywords:
Migration Exclusion Holistic Approach Work
Nikos Xypolytas
University of the Aegean
Abstract

The article establishes a theoretical approach to migrant exclusion based on recent research and focuses on the importance of the experience and organization of work. The holistic approach recognizes three important
stages in the process of exclusion: i) the preparation of future migrants in the country of origin through the integration and cultural acclimatization to casual and low-status work, ii) the allocation of migrant workers in low-status jobs in the host countries and iii) the habituation of migrant
workers to the characteristics and demands of their work which leads to the reproduction of their social position.

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Nikos Xypolytas, University of the Aegean

Nikos Xypolytas was born in 1979 in Athens and is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Aegean who specializes on work and migration. He studied Sociology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (2001-2004) and he received his Masters from University of Oxford (2005)
with an emphasis on Economic Sociology. He completed his PhD in Greece at Panteion University, (2012) and looked at the consequences of migrant domestic work on the familial and social relationships of migrants. He teaches at the University of the Aegean and has taught at Panteion University (Greece), at the University of Cyprus (Cyprus), at the American University of the Middle East (Kuwait), as well as other private institutions of higher education in Greece and abroad.

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