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Temporary migration, precarious employment and unfree labour relations: Exploring the ‘continuum of exploitation’ in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program
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In this article, the authors argue that conceptualizing forms of unfreedom along a continuum of labour relations highlights this interrelationship, which for migrant workers includes attempts to harness and control mobilities through immigration regimes that restrict mobility bargaining power within labour markets.About:
This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 171 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foreign worker & Labor relations.read more
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Globalizing regional development: aglobal production networks perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the strategic coupling of the global production networks of transnational corporations and regional economies which ultimately drives regional development through the processes of value creation, enhancement and capture.
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Toward a critical politics of precarity
TL;DR: In recent years, the term precarity has proliferated in the social sciences at the risk of losing its analytical purchase as discussed by the authors, and the value and limitations of precarity in the various ways it has operated as both a theoretical and political concept.
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Labour geography 1: Towards a geography of precarity?
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between continued growth in the sub-field of labour geography, especially in research on migration, and the concept of precarity, and found that an increasingly domi...
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Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a solid empirical base for the grown-up discussion which the UK and other European and North American countries need to have about the present and future policies with regard to migrant workers.
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Autonomy of Asylum?The Autonomy of Migration Undoing the Refugee Crisis Script
TL;DR: There has been an unrelenting proliferation of official discourses of "crisis" and "emergency" over the past several years as discussed by the authors and the historical era for our concerns may be understood to properly commence with the enunciation of an effectively global state of emergency with the promulgation of the "war on terror" in the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, in the United States, which marked a watershed in the reconfiguration of the global geopolitical landscape of the post- Cold War world order.
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Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that it is acceptable, even necessary, to grieve some lives, while others are not valued or are even incomprehensible as lives at all, and argue against the rhetorical use of the charge of anti-semitism to quell public debate.
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The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
TL;DR: For the first time in history, the mainstream left has no progressive agenda as mentioned in this paper, and it has forgotten a basic principle that every progressive political movement has been built on the anger, needs and aspirations of the emerging major class.
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Global production networks and the analysis of economic development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework for the analysis of economic integration and its relation to the asymmetries of economic and social development, which is more adequate to the exigencies and consequences of globalization than has traditionally been the case in development studies.
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Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour
TL;DR: In this paper, a foot in the door: the social organisation of paid domestic work in Europe is discussed, and the legacy of slavery: the American South and contemporary domestic workers.
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Forces of labor : workers' movements and globalization since 1870
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how the main sites of labor unrest have shifted over time together with the rise/decline of new leading sectors of capitalist development, and demonstrate that labor movements have been deeply embedded (as both cause and effect) in world political dynamics.