Constructing and Imagining Labour Migration de Sandra Mantu

Constructing and Imagining Labour Migration: Perspectives of Control from Five Continents

Sandra Mantu

Elspeth Guild

Labour migration has been on the agenda of many countries around the globe at the same time as governments of both sending and receiving countries have been trying to develop regulatory mechanisms. This book opens the debate on the global politics of labour migration by proposing a re-assessment of the interaction between states regarding labour migration. Presenting case-specific scholarship from leading experts from five different continents, each contribution engages with the changing landscape of migration control and teases out emerging control patterns, dynamics and correlations that can be made between them and existing control paradigms. The multidisciplinary and global focus in 'Constructing and Imagining Labour Migration' sheds much needed light on the mechanisms deployed by states in their attempts to control labour migration and on the manner in which these mechanisms impact upon migrants themselves, leaving some caught up in the politics of labour market control

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Express

Paperback (1)

337^.81 lei 43-57 zile

Taylor & Francis – 17 oct 2016

337^.81 lei 43-57 zile

Hardback (1)

879^.89 lei 43-57 zile

Taylor & Francis – 23 dec 2010

879^.89 lei 43-57 zile

Recenzii

'This is a welcome and timely edited collection offering an interdisciplinary, comparative perspective on labour migration governance both at a national level and in the context of regional economic and political integration systems. Importantly, the volume goes a long way towards dispelling some of the myths of labour migration control that are frequently laid claim to by States.' Ryszard Cholewinski, International Migration Programme, Switzerland 'This is an incisive and timely comparative analysis of the claims different states make about their ability to control labour migrations and the experiences individuals have of these controls.' Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University, UK ’Labour migration control is a topical issue in Europe and beyond. One example is the European Commission’s Communication on Migration (2011), which states that the European Union needs ’targeted immigration’ to fulfil its ’labour needs’, but must ’prevent large number of economic migrants crossing the borders irregularly’. For those who wish to examine such statements from a critical and original perspective, Constructing and Imagining Labour Migration is a valuable read... Existing analyses of migration policy tend to focus either on regional clusters of countries, or on Europe and the Anglo-Saxon settler countries, complemented at best with case studies on Japan or South Korea. This book steps up to the daunting challenge of offering a truly global perspective on labour migration control on all five continents...’ Journal of Common Market Studies 'The book will be of interest to those involved in global migration debates, policy analysts and researchers alike. Applying Michel Foucault’s conceptualisations of regulatory and disciplinary power at places, the case analyses in the book operate both on levels of discourses and practices, discussing the ’grand narratives’ of migration particular to each region... The idea of presenting ’policy narratives’ is ap

Cuprins

Introduction; I: Uncertain Borders, Empty Control Claims: Labour Migration Regimes with Weak Control Claims; 1: When Borders Fail: ‘Illegal', Invisible Labour Migration and Basotho Domestic Workers in South Africa; 2: (In)hospitable Border Zones: Situating Bolivian Migrants' Presence at Brazilian Crossroads; 3: Labour Migration Regulation in Malaysia: A Policy of High Numbers and Low Rights; 4: Examining Labour Migration Regimes in East Asia: Appearance and Technique of Control in Taiwan *; 5: Implications for Policy Discourse: The Influx of Zimbabwean Migrants into South Africa; II: The Appearance of Control: Examining Labour Migration Regimes with High Control Claims; 6: ‘Advantage Canada' and the Contradictions of (Im)migration Control; 7: Competing Interests in the Europeanization of Labour Migration Rules; 8: Australia and Labour Migration; 9: The ‘Outside-In' –An Overview of Japanese Immigration Policy from the Perspective of International Relations 1; III: Equivocal Claims: Examining Labour Migration Regimes with Ambivalent Control Claims; 10: Equivocal Claims? Ambivalent Controls? Labour Migration Regimes in the European Union; 11: Nationality: An Alternative Control Mechanism in an Area of Free Movement?; 12: Migration Flows and Security in North America; 13: Equivocal Claims: Examining Labour Migration Regimes with Ambivalent Control Claims – Central Asian States' Policies on Migration Control; 14: Reflections on Immigration Controls and Free Movement in Europe

Descriere

Labour migration has been on the agenda of many countries around the globe, and governments of both sending and receiving countries have made attempts to develop regulatory mechanisms to deal with the phenomenon. This multidisciplinary book opens the debate on the global politics of labour migration by proposing a re-assessment of the interaction between states regarding labour migration.