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To move or not to move: mobility decision-making in the context of welfare conditionality and paid employment

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  • Greg Marston
  • Juan Zhang
  • Michelle Peterie
  • Gaby Ramia
  • Roger Patulny
  • Emma Cooke

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The mobility and agency of the unemployed have rarely been examined together in welfare administration. Mobility research has much to offer the (im)mobility of low-skilled and unemployed workers. The article begins by critically examining dominant public discourse and policy reforms that stigmatise the assumed immobility of the unemployed. Drawing on empirical data from in-depth interviews with people on income support payments in Australia, it then offers a critical view on the mobility decision-making processes of these job-seekers. Building on previous research concerning the politics of mobility, it shows that structural inequalities impact mobility choices, making relocation difficult for many job-seekers. At the same time, it highlights the localised mobility that job search now involves, complicating orthodox associations between mobility and power – as well as assumptions that job-seekers are immobile.

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  • Greg Marston & Juan Zhang & Michelle Peterie & Gaby Ramia & Roger Patulny & Emma Cooke, 2019. "To move or not to move: mobility decision-making in the context of welfare conditionality and paid employment," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(5), pages 596-611, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:14:y:2019:i:5:p:596-611
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1611016
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