migration towards Thailand, with emphasis on undocumented labor and trafficking in persons. As undocumented migrant workers outnumber their legal counterparts in the destination nation, it is a significant social phenomenon worthy of examination. One
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Deprivation of citizenship, undocumented labor and human trafficking
Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand
Steve Kwok-Leung Chan
In Regions and Cohesion
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- 01 Jun 2018
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- Research Article
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- 82–106 (25 total)
Classifying the “ideal migrant worker”
Mexican and Jamaican transnational farmworkers in Canada
Janet McLaughlin
This article analyzes the ideology and practice of multi-unit competition that pervades neoliberal subjectivities and produces the “ideal” flexible worker within contemporary global capitalism. It demonstrates how state and capitalist interests converge to influence the selection of the ideal transnational migrant worker, how prospective migrants adapt to these expectations, and the consequences of such enactments, particularly for migrants, but also for the societies in which they live and work. Multiple levels of actors—employers, state bureaucrats, and migrants themselves—collude in producing the flexible, subaltern citizen, which includes constructions and relations of class, race, gender, and nationality/citizenship. The case study focuses on Mexican and Jamaican participants in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, a managed migration program that legally employs circular migrant farmworkers from Mexico and several English-speaking Caribbean countries in Canadian agriculture.
Walking as a Metaphor
COVID Pandemic and the Politics of Mobility
Avishek Ray
mobility, and the spaces they can access and are denied. Departing from here, this article reflects on the politics of mobility as articulated by the migrant workers in India, who, during the nationwide lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, are
Tobacco capitalism: growers, migrant workers, and the changing face of a global industry, by Benson, Peter
Marian Viorel Anastasoaie
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Aug 2013
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 403–404 (1 total)
Exploring the Relevance of Fraser’s Ethical-Political Framework of Justice to the Analysis of Inequalities Faced by Migrant Workers
Bina Fernandez
International migration in the contemporary era of globalization generates complex inequalities that require a non-statist approach to justice. This paper considers how the analysis of these inequalities may be fruitfully undertaken using Nancy Fraser’s framework of redistribution, recognition, and representation. The discussion uses empirical material from a case study of Ethiopian women who migrate as domestic workers to countries in the Middle East. The paper suggests potential directions for more transformative approaches to justice within the context of international migration.
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 85–101 (17 total)
Diplomat, Landlord, Con-artist, Thief
Housing Brokers and the Mediation of Risk in Migrant Moscow
Madeleine Reeves
, intermediary], identifying accommodation for Kyrgyz migrant workers to rent and then, unofficially, sublet, transforming apartments into mini dormitories for other migrant workers. Sanjar, who had arrived in Moscow three years earlier from Osh in southern
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 93–109 (17 total)
Austerity en route, from Lisbon to Luanda
Ruy Llera Blanes
” ( Kingfisher 2013 ), allows us to address those directionalities as trans-territorial effects and simultaneously an assemblage of political intentionalities that involves economic diplomacy, financial speculation, migrant workers, and political activism
(Re)sounding Histories
On the Temporalities of the Media Event
Penelope Papailias
At 10:30 am on 28 May 1999, an Albanian migrant worker, 24-year-old Flamur Pisli, known in Greece as “Antonis,” boarded a bus in a town at the outskirts of Thessaloniki where he had been living and working for several years. With a Kalashnikov rifle
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 86–101 (16 total)
On self-reliant masculinities and rural returnees in ethnic China
Suvi Rautio
place of origin, are neglected (J. Yang 2010 ). Jaesok Kim's (2015) research on the masculinity crisis challenging unskilled male migrant workers in the urban factories of Shandong Province addresses the anxiety they feel. Reflecting trends across
Living from the Nerves
Deportability, Indeterminacy, and the 'Feel of Law' in Migrant Moscow
Madeleine Reeves
While deportability has elicited interest as a legal predicament facing migrant workers, less attention has been given to the way in which this condition of temporal uncertainty shapes migrants' everyday encounters with state agents. Drawing on ethnography among Kyrgyzstani migrant workers in Moscow, I show that in conditions of documentary uncertainty 'legal residence' depends upon successfully enacting a right to the city and the personalization of the state. Alongside fear and suspicion, this space of legal uncertainty is characterized by a sense of abandon and awareness of the performativity of law. I explore 'living from the nerves' as an ethnographic reality for Kyrgyzstani migrant workers and as an analytic for developing a more variegated account of state power and its affective resonances in contemporary Russia.
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 119–136 (18 total)