David McCollum

TL;DR: In this article, the authors set out a theoretical framework and defined some key research questions for a programme of research that explores how the linked lives of mobile people are situated in time-space within the economic, social and cultural structures of contemporary society.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on representations of labour migrants and interrogate how such imaginaries shape migrant recruitment and employment regimes and how perceptions of migrant workers influence the recruitment of workers to the UK from Latvia.

TL;DR: In this article, a large quantity of interviews with low-wage employers and recruiters is used to examine the role served by East-Central European migrant labour in the UK labour market, to question whether this function is distinct from conventional understandings of the function of migrant labour and explore how employer practices and other processes ‘produce’ these employment relations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a typology of recruitment/employment practices and a schema illustrating the changing spatial impacts of migration channels in areas of destination, focusing on the practices of employers and recruiters that have shaped how migrant labour is sourced and used in the UK labour market.

TL;DR: The authors argue that cultural and social capital acquired through international studies is cultivated for onward mobility and may be specifically channelled towards goals such as an international career, and argue for a fluidity of life plans and conclude by discussing how geographies of origin matter within students' lifetime mobility plans.