‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers
研究乌克兰女性移民工人如何在不稳定工作中感知控制与赋权，发现这些工作可能被视为增强其生活掌控力的途径，强调需关注移民选择嵌入生命轨迹的复杂性。
This article examines how experience with precarious work influences the notions of control and empowerment among female migrant workers. Instead of focusing on migrant workers as victims of a continuous chain of precarious employment, the article aims to enrich the current knowledge by focusing on the complexity of elements involved in subjective assessments of agency. Based on research of Ukrainian female migrants, we show how precarious jobs can be perceived as enabling, allowing women more control over their lives. To understand these perceptions of agency, we show how important it is to focus on the embeddedness of migrants’ reflective choices in their life trajectories. In the context of migration, this implies a shift in understanding from one in which migrants compare their experience (of labour or gender structures) between country of origin and country of destination towards a more nuanced approach.