Work And Migration

Author : Fiona-Katharina Seiger,Christiane Timmerman,Noel B. Salazar,Johan Wets
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789462702400

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Migration at Work by Fiona-Katharina Seiger,Christiane Timmerman,Noel B. Salazar,Johan Wets Pdf

The willingness to migrate in search of employment is in itself insufficient to compel anyone to move. The dynamics of labour mobility are heavily influenced by the opportunities perceived and the imaginaries held by both employers and regulating authorities in relation to migrant labour. This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the structures and imaginaries underlying various forms of mobility. Based on research conducted in different geographical contexts, including the European Union, Turkey, and South Africa, and tackling the experiences and aspirations of migrants from various parts of the globe, the chapters comprised in this volume analyse labour-related mobilities from two distinct yet intertwined vantage points: the role of structures and regimes of mobility on the one hand, and aspirations as well as migrant imaginaries on the other. Migration at Work thus aims to draw cross-contextual parallels by addressing the role played by opportunities in mobilising people, how structures enable, sustain, and change different forms of mobility, and how imaginaries fuel labour migration and vice versa. In doing so, this volume also aims to tackle the interrelationships between imaginaries driving migration and shaping “regimes of mobility”, as well as how the former play out in different contexts, shaping internal and cross-border migration. Based on empirical research in various fields, this collection provides valuable scholarship and evidence on current processes of migration and mobility.

Author : The World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781464812828

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Moving for Prosperity: Global Migration and Labor Markets by The World Bank Pdf

Author : Kevin Hewison,Ken Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134204090

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Transnational Migration and Work in Asia by Kevin Hewison,Ken Young Pdf

Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contributions from an international team of well-known scholars, the book sets labour migration firmly within the context of globalization, providing a focused, contemporary discussion of what is undoubtedly a major twenty-first century concern. Transnational Migration and Work in Asia analyzes workers motivations and rationalities, highlighting the similarities of migration experiences throughout Asia. Presenting in-depth case studies of the real-life experiences and problems faced by migrant workers, the book discusses migrants’ relations with the state and their vulnerability to exploitation, as well as the major policy issues now facing governments, employers, NGOs and international agencies.

Author : Philip Martin,Manolo Abella,Christiane Kuptsch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300129960

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Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-First Century by Philip Martin,Manolo Abella,Christiane Kuptsch Pdf

Why have ninety million workers around the globe left their homes for employment in other countries? What can be done to ensure that international labor migration is a force for global betterment? This groundbreaking book presents the most comprehensive analysis of the causes and effects of labor migration available, and it recommends sensible, sustainable migration policies that are fair to migrants and to the countries that open their doors to them. The authors survey recent trends in international migration for employment and demonstrate that the flow of authorized and illegal workers over borders presents a formidable challenge in countries and regions throughout the world. They note that not all migration is from undeveloped to developed countries and discuss the murky relations between immigration policies and politics. The book concludes with specific recommendations for justly managing the world’s growing migrant workforce.

Author : Jane Wills,Kavita Datta,Jara Evans,Joanna Herbert,Jon May,Cathy McIlwaine
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745327982

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Global Cities at Work by Jane Wills,Kavita Datta,Jara Evans,Joanna Herbert,Jon May,Cathy McIlwaine Pdf

This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the early years of the new century. Global Cities at Work breaks new ground in linking London's new migrant division of labor to the twin processes of subcontracting and increased international migration that have been central to contemporary processes of globalization. Global Cities at Work raises the level of debate about migrant labor, encouraging policy-makers, journalists and social scientists to look behind the headlines. The book calls us to take a politically-informed geographical view of our urban labor markets and to prioritize the issue of working poverty and its implications for both unemployment and community cohesion.

Author : Patti Tamara Lenard,Christine Straehle
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773540415

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Legislated Inequality by Patti Tamara Lenard,Christine Straehle Pdf

A timely analysis of Canadian temporary labour migration policies.

Author : Ronaldo Munck,Carl Ulrik Schierup,Raúl Delgado Wise
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135748289

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Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New Global Order by Ronaldo Munck,Carl Ulrik Schierup,Raúl Delgado Wise Pdf

Any consideration of global migration in relation to work and citizenship must necessarily be situated in the context of the Great Recession. A whole historical chapter – that of neoliberalism – has now closed and the future can only be deemed uncertain. Migrant workers were key players during this phase of the global system, supplying cheap and flexible labour inputs when required in the rich countries. Now, with the further sustainability of the neoliberal political and economic world order in question, what will be the role of migration in terms of work patterns and what modalities of political citizenship will develop? While informalization of the relations of production and the precarization of work were once assumed to be the exception, that is no longer the case. As for citizenship this book posits a parallel development of precarious citizenship for migrants, made increasingly vulnerable by the global economic crisis. But we are also in an era of profound social transformation, in the context of which social counter-movements emerge, which may halt the disembedding of the market from social control and its corrosive impact. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Author : Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136949944

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Migration, Domestic Work and Affect by Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez Pdf

Domestic and care work in private households is now the largest employment sector for migrant women. This book sheds light on these households through its focus on the interpersonal relationships between Latin American “undocumented migrant” domestic workers and employers in Austria, Germany, Spain and the UK. The personal experiences of these women form the basis for Gutiérrez-Rodríguez’s decolonial analysis of the feminization of labor in private households and cultural analysis of domestic work as affective labor. This book will be a necessary voice in the debates on citizenship, cosmopolitanism, and migrant workers’ rights.

Author : OECD,European Union
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264216501

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Matching Economic Migration with Labour Market Needs by OECD,European Union Pdf

This publication gathers the papers presented at the “OECD-EU dialogue on mobility and international migration: matching economic migration with labour market needs” (Brussels, 24-25 February 2014), a conference jointly organised by the European Commission and the OECD.

Author : Megha Amrith,Nina Sahraoui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351846219

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Gender, Work and Migration by Megha Amrith,Nina Sahraoui Pdf

Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315225210 While the feminisation of transnational migrant labour is now a firmly ingrained feature of the contemporary global economy, the specific experiences and understandings of labour in a range of gendered sectors of global and regional labour markets still require comparative and ethnographic attention. This book adopts a particular focus on migrants employed in sectors of the economy that are typically regarded as marginal or precarious – domestic work and care work in private homes and institutional settings, cleaning work in hospitals, call centre labour, informal trade – with the goal of understanding the aspirations and mobilities of migrants and their families across generations in relation to questions of gender and labour. Bringing together rich, fieldwork-based case studies on the experiences of migrants from the Philippines, Bolivia, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Mauritius, Brazil and India, among others, who live and work in countries within Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America, Gender, Work and Migration goes beyond a unique focus on migration to explore the implications of gendered labour patterns for migrants’ empowerment and experiences of social mobility and immobility, their transnational involvement, and wider familial and social relationships.

Author : United Nations
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789290687894

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World Migration Report 2020 by United Nations Pdf

Since 2000, IOM has been producing world migration reports. The World Migration Report 2020, the tenth in the world migration report series, has been produced to contribute to increased understanding of migration throughout the world. This new edition presents key data and information on migration as well as thematic chapters on highly topical migration issues, and is structured to focus on two key contributions for readers: Part I: key information on migration and migrants (including migration-related statistics); and Part II: balanced, evidence-based analysis of complex and emerging migration issues.

Author : Sonya Michel,Ito Peng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319550862

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Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care by Sonya Michel,Ito Peng Pdf

This book explores how around the world, women’s increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of their welfare states and the gendering of employment opportunities. As one result, the authors find, women are increasingly migrating from the global south to become care workers in the global north. This volume focuses on changing patterns of family and gender relations, migration, and care work in the countries surrounding the Pacific Rim—a global epicenter of transnational care migration. Using a multi-scalar approach that addresses micro, meso, and macro levels, chapters examine three domains: care provisioning, the supply of and demand for care work, and the shaping and framing of care. The analysis reveals that multiple forms of global inequalities are now playing out in the most intimate of spaces.

Author : Md Mizanur Rahman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811038587

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Bangladeshi Migration to Singapore by Md Mizanur Rahman Pdf

This book examines international labour migrants in the context of South–South migration with a focus on Bangladeshi migration to Singapore. Two principal questions in the South–South migration are addressed: Why and how individuals migrate for work; and what impact this temporary form of migration has for migrants and their families. The book adopts a relatively new methodological approach to labour migration by linking different phases that migrants undergo in the migration process and by combining migrants in the host country with their families in the origin country. This is achieved through identifying and addressing six key areas: (i) migration policy, (ii) social imperatives of migration (iii) recruitment, (iv) social worlds of the migrants, (v) remittance process, and finally, (vi) family development dynamics. This book introduces the bari to migration research as a unit of analysis over and above individual and family units. The book reveals how social and cultural forces both initiate and perpetuate migration, and later on influence bari dynamics.

Author : Cathryn Costello,Mark Freedland
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191023521

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Migrants at Work by Cathryn Costello,Mark Freedland Pdf

There is a highly significant and under-considered intersection and interaction between migration law and labour law. Labour lawyers have tended to regard migration law as generally speaking outside their purview, and migration lawyers have somewhat similarly tended to neglect labour law. The culmination of a collaborative project on 'Migrants at Work' funded by the John Fell Fund, the Society of Legal Scholars, and the Research Centre at St John's College, Oxford, this volume brings together distinguished legal and migration scholars to examine the impact of migration law on labour rights and how the regulation of migration increasingly impacts upon employment and labour relations. Examining and clarifying the interactions between migration, migration law, and labour law, contributors to the volume identify the many ways that migration law, as currently designed, divides the objectives of labour law, privileging concerns about the labour supply and demand over worker-protective concerns. In addition, migration law creates particular forms of status, which affect employment relations, thereby dividing the subjects of labour law. Chapters cover the labour laws of the UK, Australia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Germany, Sweden, and the US. References are also made to discrete practices in Brazil, France, Greece, New Zealand, Mexico, Poland, and South Africa. These countries all host migrants and have developed systems of migration law reflecting very different trajectories. Some are traditional countries of immigration and settlement migration, while others have traditionally been countries of emigration but now import many workers. There are, nonetheless, common features in their immigration law which have a profound impact on labour law, for instance in their shared contemporary shift to using temporary labour migration programmes. Further chapters examine EU and international law on migration, labour rights, human rights, and human trafficking and smuggling, developing cross-jurisdictional and multi-level perspectives. Written by leading scholars of labour law, migration law, and migration studies, this book provides a diverse and multidisciplinary approach to this field of legal interaction, of interest to academics, policymakers, legal practitioners, trade unions, and migrants' groups alike.

Author : A. A. Choudry,Mondli Hlatshwayo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1783713402

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Just Work? by A. A. Choudry,Mondli Hlatshwayo Pdf