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An Anthropology of Exploitation Techniques in the London Real Estate and Labor Market
An Anthropology of Exploitation Techniques in the London Real Estate and Labor Market

Author(s): Noémi Szőke
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Hungarian migrants; housing and working conditions; real estate and labor market; exploitation

Summary/Abstract: This study explores the life-mode of Hungarian migrants in their destination country, England, particularly London in the last decade, focusing on their housing conditions and working experiences. Relying on her participant observations and interviews, the author formulates a picture through the eyes of Hungarian migrant laborers regarding how both the real estate and labor market exploits them (micro level). She explains the motives of the main economic actors (entrepreneurs, real estate and employment agencies, employers) leading to exploitations (meso level) in addition to discussing how all of these fit into the wider socio-economic context (macro level).

  • Issue Year: 67/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 415-436
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English
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