Dr Constantine Manolchev is currently working on a British Academy of Management-funded project to investigate the working experiences of highly-skilled and low-skilled migrant workers in the United Kingdom.  

As Dr Manolchev describes, ‘The working experiences of migrants are a topic of continued media and academic interest, not least in the light of the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. A common theme is the plight of migrants in low-skilled jobs, such as those in agriculture and food-processing. Although easily accessible to migrants, these jobs have very few ‘decent work’ characteristics such as social, employment, or health and safety protections. Exploitative working conditions, however, are not limited to migrants in low-skilled work. Contractual insecurity and exposure to heavy workloads are also increasingly observed in primary labour market occupations such as academia. Yet, there is limited research that compares migrants’ employment in primary and secondary labour market segments.’ 

You can view full details of the project here, via the British Academy of Management website.