‘In a last of other shoes’ Immigrants workers and the approach of the new ethnic precariousness.

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of the approach of the new ethnic precariousness in developed countries, using as example the case study on Ecuadorians workers in the metropolitan area of Madrid. The analysis fans out in three theoretical sections. First, it deals with the question of the analysis and the portrait of the precariousness life and work conditions of the migrants in development economies and the relations between both, using as example the case of study on Ecuadorians in the economy of Madrid. Second, to explain the role that current economic restructuring has had in the incorporation of immigrant workers as cheap labor in the developed urban areas. Third, it presents how the so-called social factors –class, gender, ethnicity, etc.- have affected the creation of the new ethnic precariousness.