The Politics of Migrant Labour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Migrant Labour write by Gabriella Alberti. This book was released on 2024-01-22. The Politics of Migrant Labour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At a time when worker shortages have emerged as a global challenge, this highly original book bridges migration and labour studies to examine worker mobility and its management. This will be a valuable resource for both scholars and practitioners.
Production Politics and Migrant Labour Regimes
Production Politics and Migrant Labour Regimes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Production Politics and Migrant Labour Regimes write by Charanpal Singh Bal. This book was released on 2016-09-23. Production Politics and Migrant Labour Regimes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book emphasizes the importance of production politics, or struggles in the workplace between workers and their employers, for understanding migrant labour regimes in Asia and the Gulf. Drawing from a study of Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore, as well as on comparative material in the region, Bal shows that migrant labour politics are significantly influenced by the specific form of production politics as well as their variable outcomes. In contrast to contentious politics approaches, this book sheds light on the extent to which migrant labour regimes can be contested by workers and civil society groups and explains the recent rise in migrant labour unrest in the region.
Born Out of Place
Born Out of Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Born Out of Place write by Nicole Constable. This book was released on 2014-03-14. Born Out of Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong–born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies.
Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf
Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf write by Mehran Kamrava. This book was released on 2012. Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In some countries of the Persian Gulf as much as 85 to 90 per cent of the population is made-up of expatriate workers.Unsurprisingly, all of the concerned states spend inordinate amounts of their political energies managing the armies of migrant labourers employed in their countries, and there are equally fundamental social, cultural, and economic consequences involved as well. Despite the pervasive and farreaching nature of the phenomenon, to date there have not been any comprehensive, easily accessible studies of labour migration in the Persian Gulf. Migrant Labour in the Persian Gulf is a multi-disciplinary examination of the manifold causes, nature, processes, and consequences of labour migration into the Persian Gulf. It critically analyses the effects of migration for native communities, looking at the types and functions of informal - and at times formal - bi-national and multinational networks that emerge from and in turn sustain migration patterns over time, the role and functions of recruitment agencies, and the values, behaviours, and plans of migrants workers prior to and after setting off for the Persian Gulf.
From Migrant to Worker
From Migrant to Worker - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Migrant to Worker write by Michele Ford. This book was released on 2019-04-15. From Migrant to Worker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand were uniformly hostile towards foreign workers, but Ford deftly shows how times and attitudes have begun to change. Now, she argues, NGOs and the Global Union Federations are encouraging local unions to represent and advocate for these peripheral workers, and in some cases succeeding. From Migrant to Worker builds our understanding of the role the international labor movement and local unions have had in developing a movement for migrant workers' labor rights. Ford examines the relationship between different kinds of labor movement actors and the constraints imposed on those actors by resource flows, contingency, and local context. Her conclusions show that in countries—Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand—where resource flows and local factors give the Global Union Federations more influence local unions have become much more engaged with migrant workers. But in countries—Japan and Taiwan, for example—where they have little effect there has been little progress. While much has changed, Ford forces us to see that labor migration in Asia is still fraught with complications and hardships, and that local unions are not always able or willing to act.
