Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants

Insecure Work in a Globalised Economy
Herausgegeben:Craig, Gary; Waite, Louise; Lewis, Hannah; Skrivankova, Klara

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Produktbeschreibung

Globalization, the economic crisis and related policies of austerity have led to a growth in extreme exploitation at work, with migrants particularly vulnerable. This book explores the lives of the growing numbers of severely exploited labourers in the world today, questioning how we can respond to such globalized patterns of extreme inequality.

Produktdetails

• Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-46040-0
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781137460400
• ISBN-10: 1137460407
• Artikelnr.: 42850116

Autorenporträt

Nicola Phillips, University of Sheffield, UK John Smith, Kingston University, UK Rossana Cillo, University of Venice Ca' Foscari, Italy Lucia Pradella, University of Venice Ca' Foscari, Italy Kendra Strauss, Simon Fraser University, Canada Matej Blazek, Loughborough University, UK Alex Balch, University of Liverpool, UK Tom Vickers, Northumbria University, UK Maja Sager, Lund University, Sweden Donghyuk Park, University of Paris Diderot, France Louise Waite, University of Leeds, UK Hannah Lewis, University of Leeds, UK Stuart Hodkinson, University of Leeds, UK Peter Dwyer, University of York, UK Eliana Ferradás Abalo, School for International Training, USA Jerónimo Montero Bressán, Ministry of Labour, Argentina Rebecca Lawthom, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Sue Baines, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Carolyn Kagan, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Mark Greenwood, Wai Yin Chinese Women Society, UK Sandy Lo, Wai Yin Chinese Women Society, UK Lisa Mok, Wai Yin Chinese Women Society, UK Sylvia Sham, Wai Yin Chinese Women Society, UK Scott Gaule, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Alice Bloch, University of Manchester, UK Sonia McKay, University of the West of England, UK Leena Kumarappan, London Metropolitan University, UK Ismail Idowu Salih, Middlesex University School of Law, UK Domenica Urzi, University of Nottingham, UK Ana Lopes, University of the West of England, UK Tim Hall, University of East London, UK AnnieDelaney, Victoria University, Australia Jane Tate, Homeworkers Worldwide, UK Joanna Ewart-James, Walk Free Partner Network, UK Neill Wilkins, Institute for Human Rights and Business, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Editorial Introduction. Vulnerability, exploitation and migrants: Insecure work in a globalised economy
Louise Waite
Gary Craig
Hannah Lewis
Klara Skrivankova I. THE GLOBALISATION OF VULNERABILITY 1. Private governance and the problem of trafficking and slavery in global supply chains
Nicola Phillips 2. The political economy of outsourcing
John Smith 3. Labour, exploitation and migration in Western Europe: an international political economy perspective
Lucia Pradella and Rossana Cillo II. MIGRANT WORKERS, UNFREEDOM AND FORCED LABOUR 4. Social reproduction and migrant domestic labour in Canada and the UK: Towards a multi-dimensional concept of subordination
Kendra Strauss 5. Precarious labour in Slovakia: patterns, implications and intersections with other forms of abuse
Matej Blazek 6. Understanding and evaluating UK efforts to tackle forced labour
Alex Balch III. THE VULNERABILITY OF ASYLUM SEEKERS 7. The contribution of UK asylum policy 1999-2010 to conditions for the exploitation of migrant labour
Tom Vickers 8. Precarity at Work. Asylum rights and paradoxes of labour in Sweden
Maja Sager 9. Bangladeshi fruit vendors in the street of Paris: Vulnerable asylum seekers or elf-imposed victims of exploitation?
Donghyuk Park 10. Refused asylum seekers as the hyper-exploited
Louise Waite
Hannah Lewis
Stuart Hodkinson
Peter Dwyer IV. HIDDEN FROM VIEW: THE MOST EXPLOITED WORKERS 11. Sweatshop workers in Buenos Aires: The political economy of human trafficking in a peripheral country
Jerónimo Montero Bressán
Eliana Ferradás Abalo 12. Experiences of forced labour amongst UK based Chinese migrant workers: exploring vulnerability and protection in times of Empire
Rebecca Lawthom
Carolyn Kagan
Sue Baines
Sandy Lo
Sylvia Sham
Lisa Mok
Mark Greenwood
Scott Gaule 13. The Working Lives of Undocumented Migrants: Social capital, individual agency and mobility
Alice Bloch
Sonia McKay
Leena Kumarappan 14. Slavery in the 21st century. A review of domestic work in the UK
Ismail Idowu Salih V. INTERVENTIONS: TACKLING LABOUR EXPLOITATION 15. Global citizenship: the need for dignity and respect for migrants
Domenica Urzi 16. Winning a living wage: the legacy of living wage campaigns
Ana Lopes
Tim Hall 17. Forced labour and ethical trade in the Indian garment industry
Annie Delaney
Jane Tate 18. The staff wanted initiative - preventing exploitation, forced labour and trafficking in the UK hospitality industry
Joanna Ewart-James and Neill Wilkins

Rezensionen

"This wide ranging volume explores the relation between migration, exploitation and globalisation from multiple perspectives, bringing together diverse experiences from the global north and the global south. It exposes the structural underpinnings of the production of vulnerability through the lack of global governance of labour relations, and the stringency of global citizenship regimes. Setting ethnographic and qualitative studies of migrants alongside political economic analysis of neoliberal capitalist development it provides fascinating analysis of how global capital impacts on daily lives, and offers some examples of how to fight back." - Bridget Anderson, University of Oxford, UK

"Read this book. It is a work of solidarity and is both urgent and unique. Urgent because it engages directly with the structural reasons why migrant workers are especially likely to face work-place exploitation. It is thus a call for action in dangerous times. Unique because of its breadth in encompassing both analysis of migrant workers' own strategies to manage harsh working and living conditions across contrasting global contexts and understanding of the neoliberal policies and business practices that create those conditions. Clear in its overall message, the book rightly steers readers towards the diversity of migrant workers' experiences, and to an appreciation and respect for the agency of migrants themselves, even in conditions where victories may only be small, and changes fleeting." - Ben Rogaly, University of Sussex, UK

"Neoliberal globalisation is exacerbating inequality, and creating new forms of exploitation on the basis of race, gender, origins and - above all - legal status. This invaluable book explores the special vulnerability of migrant workers and asylum seekers. It examines the political economy of the production of vulnerability, while case studies from Europe, Latin America and Asia reveal the everyday reality of exploitation and precarity. But the authors do not simply lament such abuses: they map out strategies to fight for the rights of vulnerable workers and to build global citizenship." - Stephen Castles, University of Sydney, Australia