Dynamic Developments

Zoran, like, had so many tea to spill about all the drama with his coworkers.  He told me that these stories straight up gave him major chills and made him feel so shook. He spilled the tea and told me one of his stories:OMG going to the workplace without English totally triggered Paulius's anxiety over time. Like, it's such a mood, you know? This made him hella vulnerable at work and caused mad problems with his supervisor(s) / line manager(s). Paulius decided to flex They were like, "Yo, even though they were getting roasted and hearing all those savage jokes, they were still putting in mad work and always down to help with the heavy load." Paulius be like: OMG, like as migrant workers with our ethnic vibes and culture, we're totally prone to getting picked on for no reason and dealing with major racial discrimination. It's so unfair, smh. Like, conflicts always go down when I gotta work with locals, you know? Yo, like both guys and girls were victims of all...

So, like, when I asked Celina about equality and cultural capital, she was all like, "Nah, equal opportunities suck." She thinks that her qualifications and experience from Poland and Scotland don't get recognized, and that's a major bummer. After grinding for like four / five years in Quality Control, this company dropped a job for Produce Operator and Celina was like, "I'm in!" She thought her edu and job experience in Poland and Scotland would like totally help her score a better position, ya know? She wanted to flex her new Scotland vibes as a pack house queen, even though she had mad skills that were way beyond what was needed. She wanted to mix it up with the cultural capital she got from Poland, ya know? She flexed that she felt hella lit because of her education, skills, and ability. But the job had gone to a local homie who was lacking major cultural clout. The company hooked him up with mad easy access to the position, fam. Celina stayed in her...

When I asked Anastazja how she really felt about equal status, rights, and opportunities at work, she was like: The tea from the interviews with policy makers on equal status, rights and opportunities at work and uncertainty about guarantee of equality and equal valuations of cultural capital suggests that migrant workers can easily flex into different areas with their qualifications. An equality and diversity officer spilled the tea:  I peeped that my respondents were trying to deal with the straight up rudeness and mad pressure from their employer, but they were keeping quiet about it, which totally messed them up in so many ways. Many peeps tried to dip to another company to find a lit job with mad prosperity. But it was hella tough for them, fam. Asked what would be migrants’ vibes or feels about accessing jobs / employment most consistent with their skills and qualifications (figure 4.4), seventeen respondents said that it was not easy to get access to jobs most consistent wit...

If I don't know what the selection criteria are and when it's going down, isn't it risky to call someone out of the blue and give them a score sheet with a low grade? Doesn't this show that the company was hella focused on making me irrelevant? Even though it's completely normal for redundancy selection criteria to be based on the last twelve months of work (as stated in the company's letter), I have to admit that I don't know much about it or if anyone told me. But, for real, my performance in recent years has been seriously hampered by things like unfair treatment, bullying, fear, and racism and discrimination. However, Raymond and Paulius' tea suggests that equality does not exist. Raymond was completely screwed over by his company after three years of hard work. It was a completely bogus and unfair dismissal case. He basically spilled the beans on how he was chosen for redundancy using some biased AF selection criteria. I was completely unfairly asse...

  Lina spilled the tea: Just one respondent was like, "Yo, everyone in society is treated equally and there's no need to recognize and protect the cultural capital of migrant workers." OMG, Alina's story discussed above is, like, the absolute GOAT example of that belief. Yet, like, there's legit evidence from my interviews with migrant farm workers and from policy interviews with NFU and CAB officials that there are still mad barriers to equal valuations of cultural capital, ya know? Several schemes, orgs, and farmers and growers have, like, totally been getting called out lately for how they've been treating migrant workers and stuff. It's been a big deal, ya know? OMG it's like super important to say that the employment agencies and work permits systems have, like, so many schemes. There's the Worker Registration Scheme, Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Scheme (SAWS), the Sectors Based Scheme (SBS), and the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HS...

Determinants of migration, fam This section is all about the tea on migrant farm workers and their social and cultural transitions. It's important to keep it real and understand the complex and sometimes tough views and experiences of different migrant groups, ya feel? The section starts by flexing on the forces that cause migration and if those forces are linked to the equality of cultural clout. So, like, it's all about how much connection farm workers have with their peeps and their local communities. Can they turn their social clout into cultural clout? And if they can, how does that impact their cultural status and stuff? OMG, like, most of the peeps in the study said that money is the main reason they bounce, but IDK if that actually affects how much cultural clout they have. Celina spilled the tea on her reasons for the migration: I just realized that there was like zero growth in the agriculture sector in Poland. SMH. OMG, when Poland joined the EU in 2004, I was like, ...

  However, when it comes to the conditions attached to farm workers' immigration status and their access to services, it's like super hard to like, make any solid conclusions based on what the experts say or what the migrants themselves think about the obstacles they face in terms of equality and accessing services, you know? One thing is like, for sure, cuz of these barriers they might still be on the fringes of mainstream society. Equally threatening migrants' movement from social disintegration, social fragmentation, exclusion and polarization to social and cultural integration may be hella troubled cuz of resource constraints that the government is often faced with, lack of support from the wider society, and weak infrastructure for dealing with migrant needs. This problem is like, totally linked with the lack of experience of some farmers and shady farmers / employers and recruitment agencies who might not know squat about dealing with major migration, ya know?  Servic...

I'm definitely getting the short end of the stick here. I do not have the same clout, benefits, or opportunities as a local worker.  It's not fair, family. Victimization occurs because I have been speaking out against being underpaid and unfairly docked wages, which is completely illegal. I've even informed the Citizens Advice Bureau that I intend to file a complaint about it. When I find out that my pay has been deducted from our wages, I'm like, "Bruh, what's up with that? I've asked my line supervisor several times to explain why they're unfairly docking our wages. But I didn't receive a lit answer, smh. A little less than a quarter (out of twenty-two respondents) said that employers' failure to recognize their potential harmed their understanding of equality and cultural clout. Ausra and Paulius are prime examples of how employers undervalued their mad skills, which could have significantly boosted the company's future success, you know?...

Just one respondent was like, "Yo, everyone in society gets treated equally and there's no need to recognize and protect the cultural capital of migrant workers, ya feel?"    OMG, Alina's story discussed above is like the absolute GOAT when it comes to that belief, you know?  Yet, like, there's legit evidence from my interviews with migrant farm workers and from policy interviews with NFU and CAB officials that there are still mad barriers to equal valuations of cultural capital, you know? Several schemes, orgs, and farmers and growers have, like, totally been getting called out lately for how they've been dealing with migrant workers' stuff, ya know, like their rights and all. Yo, it's mad important to flex that the employment agencies and work permits systems with hella schemes like the Worker Registration Scheme, Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Scheme (SAWS), the Sectors Based Scheme (SBS), and the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP) controll...

Yo, like, mad orgs, including CAB, be straight  up calling on the UK Gov to tweak the structure and functions of these agencies and schemes, ya feel?   They've also asked the gov to peep and update employment laws to make sure migrant workers aren't getting exploited by their bosses (Migrant InfoSource, 2008; Spencer, et al., 2007). I asked my peeps if they found any obstacles to equal vibes of cultural clout. The majority of peeps said they've come across mad obstacles. Two peeps ghosted on answering this q. The barriers include like language problem, the farmers having way too much power, the government having no control, society being so unfair, workers' knowledge and skills not being recognized, and just straight up discrimination and workplace drama. These were like, hella common themes/sub-themes that came up in the interviews, ya know? Celina spilled the tea to me: One of the barriers is, like, employers having a total misconception about their migrant farm worke...

More than two-thirds of my friends had no interest in social capital or connecting with local communities.    SMH. They were not interested in socializing with others in their respective communities or participating in community life and activities. The reality did not live up to the hype for some farm workers because not all migrant farm workers thought the reception they received from the locals and the community was fantastic. However, while the majority of them said that the locals were extremely friendly, these two farm workers said, "Yeah, we got a mixed welcome when we came to Scotland." Andrea from the Czech Republic spilled the tea.When I first arrived in Scotland, I felt incredibly welcome. The majority of people appeared to be extremely relaxed. Some people seemed to be more friendly with me than others, who became extremely cautious, anxious, and nervous. I'm not into the whole social media thing, you know? I believe locals are generally friendly, but they are...