THE RATIONALITY PARADOX OF MIGRANT WORKERS ON PRECARIOUSNESS CONDITIONS IN UNITED KINGDOM

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the rationality paradox of migrant workers in the UK for precariatization in UK. The socio-economic conditions in UK during the last decade have shown a kind of insinuation that the labor free market is not an appropriate and effective facility in advancing the country's economy, particularly in improving the standard of living of migrant workers. Literature studies show that the labor market in the UK has resulted in conditions of precariousness, exploitation and injustice for migrant workers. Anamoli of this problem is that migrant workers still hold on to their jobs even though they are exploited. With the theory of rational choice and through an interdisciplinary approach, it is found that first, this anomaly is caused by the identity paradox of migrant workers as ‘homo oeconomicus’; secondly, as a result of this paradox, the economic factor becomes a rational choice, natural from the impossibility of other alternative options involving emotional, moral and psychological sides; third, the absence of legal immigration documents, low skills, limited access to justice, dangerous immigration status, and the need to work for the physiology and conditions of the UK government's ‘state of exception’, are the real antecedents of the consequences of being 'homo sacer'..