Home
Global Labor Migration

Global Labor Migration

New Directions

Edited by Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene and Joo-Cheong Tham

Contributions by Bridget Anderson, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Katie Bales, Jenny Chan, Penelope Ciancanelli, Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos, Eileen Boris, Charlie Fanning, Judy Fudge, Jorge L Giovannetti-Torres, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, Justin Jackson, Radhika Natarajan, Pun Ngai, Bastiaan Nugteren, Nicola Piper, Jessica R Pliley, Devi Sacchetto, Helen Sampson, Yael Schacher, Joo-Cheong Tham and Matt Withers

Published by: University of Illinois Press

Imprint: University of Illinois Press

368 Pages, 156.00 × 235.00 × 25.00 mm, 4 charts, 2 tables

Paperback
9780252086793
Published: December 2022

£23.99

Buy

Hardcover
9780252044700
Published: December 2022

£100.00

Buy

Description
Contents
Authors
Praise

Introduction: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Global Labor Migration Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, and Joo-Cheong Tham

Part I. Colonial Authority and the Transimperial

1. "Politics of Protection and the Southeast-Asian 'Coolie Trade': Chinese Labor Migration and Trans-Imperial Connections in the British Straits Settlements and the Netherlands East Indies, 1870-1914" Bastiaan Nugteren

2. "Militarized Mobility: The U.S. 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 Anti-Colonialism: Historical Intersections in Mid-Twentieth century East Africa" Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos

Part II. Gender and Sexualities

5. "Sex Trafficking in the Motor City: The Construction of an International Deportation Infrastructure in Detroit, USA, 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

Part III. National and Transnational Regulation

9. "The Wedge of the Refugee as Worker: Litigation over Asylum Seeker Work Authorization in the United States, 1974-2021" Yael Schacherp> 10. "Rethinking 'Unfree' Labor: The Immigration Industrial Complex" Katie Bales

11. "Transnational Corporations and the Making of Global Labour Markets: The Case of Foxconn in China and Europe" Rutvica Andrijasevic, Pun Ngai, and Devi Sacchetto

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

Part 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" Matt Withers and Nicola Piper
Afterword: "Labor, Race and Temporality" Bridget Anderson

Index