Invisible migrants: A micro-ethnographic account of bodily exhaustion amongst migrant manual labourers working the graveyard shift at New Spitalfields Market in London
| dc.contributor.author | MacQuarie, Julius-Cezar | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-12T14:18:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-12T14:18:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-12-30 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This article reports data collected during an ethnographic research project conducted in the New Spitalfields wholesale night market in London. It foregrounds and analyses the portraits of two protagonists and triangulates them with data collected in the wider project. This micro analysis reveals that low-skilled workers (loaders, drivers, cleaners, servers) of the night market engage in physical labour tasks to maintain a 24/7 city’s economy appetite round-the-clock. The night workers’ somatic experiences, rhythmic bodily labour that constitutes the workers’ bodily capital, are discussed on the backdrop of challenges that they face while working the “graveyard” shift. The paper relays the workers’ individual characteristics, such as the physical and mental abilities to endure and embody the duress of night-shift work. This paper proposes that bodily exhaustion, alienation, and sleep deprivation are amongst the factors causing precarious migrant night workers to become bioautomatons who are awake and working around the clock. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | MacQuarie, J.-C. (2019) ‘Invisible migrants: A micro-ethnographic account of bodily exhaustion amongst migrant manual labourers working the graveyard shift at New Spitalfields Market in London’, Journal of Health Inequalities, 5(2), pp. 198–202. https://doi.org/10.5114/jhi.2019.91400. | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.5114/jhi.2019.91400 | en |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 202 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2450-5927 | en |
| dc.identifier.issued | 2 | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Journal of Health Inequalities | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 198 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/14945 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 5 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Termedia Publishing; Akademia Kaliska | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Health Inequalities | en |
| dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.5114/jhi.2019.91400 | en |
| dc.rights | © 2019. This is an Open Access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Bodily exhaustion | en |
| dc.subject | Nightshift work | en |
| dc.subject | Migrants | en |
| dc.subject | Sleep despoliation | en |
| dc.subject | Precarity | en |
| dc.subject | Nightworkers | en |
| dc.subject | Night shift | en |
| dc.subject | Migration | en |
| dc.title | Invisible migrants: A micro-ethnographic account of bodily exhaustion amongst migrant manual labourers working the graveyard shift at New Spitalfields Market in London | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
| oaire.citation.issue | 2 | en |
| oaire.citation.volume | 5 | en |
