Global labor migration : new directions / edited by Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, & Joo-Cheong Tham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boris, Eileen, 1948- editor.

Gottfried, Heidi, 1955- editor.

Greene, Julie, 1956- editor.

Tham, Joo-Cheong, editor.

Series:

Studies of world migrations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers.

Labor mobility.

Labor market.

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

xii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What factors created a system that forces this huge and growing mass of human beings to toil as an institutional and judicial lower caste? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living and working conditions in the past, and what opportunities exist for them today? Global Labor Migration presents new multidisciplinary, transregional perspectives on issues surrounding global labor migration. The essays go beyond disciplinary boundaries, with sociologists, ethnographers, legal scholars, and historians contributing research that extends comparison among and within world regions. Looking at migrant workers from the late nineteenth century to the present day, the contributors illustrate the need for broader perspectives that study labor migration over longer timeframes and from wider geographic areas. The result is a unique, much-needed collection that delves into one of the world's most pressing issues, generates scholarly dialogue, and proposes cutting-edge research agendas and methods"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I COLONIAL AUTHORITY AND THE TRANSIMPERIAL

1. Politics of Protection and the Southeast Asian "Coolie Trade": Chinese Labor Migration and Transimperial Connections in the British Straits Settlements and the Netherlands East Indies, 1870

1914 / Bastiaan Nugteren

2. Militarized Mobility: The US Army and Chinese Exclusion in America's Empire at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century / Justin F. Jackson

3. Before the Windrush: Black British Colonial Labor in Cuba and the Dominican Republic / Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres

4. Ethnicity, Migrant Labor, and Anticolonialism: Historical Intersections in Mid-Twentieth-Century East Africa / Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos

pt. II GENDER AND SEXUALITIES

5. Sex Trafficking in the Motor City: The Construction of an International Deportation Infrastructure in Detroit, 1924-1944 / Jessica R. Pliley

6. Securitizing Migration: Finance and Household Reproduction / Penelope Ciancanelli

7. Saving Asian Marriages: Migration, Gender, and the Communal Politics of Welfare in 1970s Britain / Radhika Natarajan

8. Buy with 1-Click: Independent Contracting and Migrant Workers in China's Last-Mile Delivery / Jenny Chan

pt. III NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL REGULATION

9. The Wedge of the Refugee as Worker: Litigation over Asylum Seeker Work Authorization in the United States, 1974

2022 / Yael Schacher

10. Rethinking "Unfree" Labor: The Immigration Industrial Complex / Katie Bales

11. Transnational Corporations and the Making of Global Labor Markets: The Case of Foxconn in China and Europe / Devi Sacchetto

12. Beyond Borders: The Regulation of the Living and Working Conditions of International Seafarers / Helen Sampson

pt. IV GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

13. Moving Workers: International Labour Organization Standards and the Regulation of Migration / Eileen Boris

14. From the ILO to Intergovernmentalism: "Surplus Population," Discrimination, and the Genealogy of Global Migration Management / Charlie Fanning

15. Governing Global Labor Migration: Compacts and Contradictions / Judy Fudge

16. Decent Wages for Decent Work in Asia: Addressing the Temporality-Precarity Nexus in South-South Migration / Nicola Piper.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Global labor migration

ISBN:

9780252044700

0252044703

9780252086793

0252086791

OCLC:

1332886237