(Im)Mobilities and Informality as Livelihood Strategies in Transnational Social Fields : Supplementing the State for the Invisible and the Vulnerable
Fradejas-García, Ignacio (University of Iceland)
Molina, José Luis (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural)
Lubbers, Miranda J (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural)

Imprint:	Springer Nature, 2022
Description:	35 pàg.
Abstract:	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.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CSO2015-68687-P Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad BES2016-076859
Rights:	Tots els drets reservats.
Language:	Anglès
Document:	Capítol de llibre ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
ISBN:	978-3-030-82498-3 ; 978-3-030-82501-0 ; 978-3-030-82499-0
Published in:	Informality, Labour Mobility and Precariousness, Núm. 1 (2022) , p. 33-67, ISSN 2662-2491

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-82499-0_2

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