The Politics of Migrant Labour: Exit, Voice, and Social Reproduction

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The Politics of Migrant Labour: Exit, Voice, and Social Reproduction
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Introduction: Migration and Labour Turnover
	The shifting maelstrom
	Beyond nationalistic perspectives
	Four lenses to understand the turnover of migrant labour
	Structure of the book
1 Theorizing Labour Mobility Power
	Introduction: migration and labour turnover as contested terrains
	The origins of turnover as a problem
	From management studies to the labour process perspective
	Migration and the segmentation of labour markets
	The good, the bad, and the intractable (migrant) worker
	Individual exit vs collective voice: a hierarchy of resistance?
	Runaways, desertion, and migration as historical forms of resistance
	The autonomist gaze
	Concluding remarks: migrant mobility power
2 The Logistics of Living Labour
	The kafala system in the Persian Gulf
	Making borders, making states, entrapping labour
	The politics of mobility and everyday practices
	Migration infrastructures: states, intermediaries, and migrant networks
	The transnational state management of migration
	Recruitment agencies, brokers, and gangmasters
	Social networks and migrant labour regimes
	Concluding remarks: rethinking the migrant labour regime
3 Enclaves of Differentiated Labour
	Labour mobility and immobility in China’s EPZs
	Global production networks and the place of labour
	Localizing labour regimes: heterogeneity, time, and space
	The racialization and genderization of migrant labour
	Enclaves of differentiated labour (EDL)
	Gendered  labour, turnover and worker agency in EPZs
	Labour mobility power beyond EPZs
	The continuum of individual exit and collective voice
	Concluding remarks: management and labour between mobility and fixity
4 The Field of Social Reproduction
	Engineering social reproduction at Ford, 1910s
	Reconnecting production and reproduction processes
	Feminist political economies and geographies of reproduction
	Migration as a form of externalization of social reproduction
	Transnational networks and social reproduction
	Differential access to welfare and social reproductive strategies
	The multiple functions of worker dormitories
		Just-in-time management regimes
		Total institutions
		The ambivalent role of ethnic and family networks
		Class recomposition and collective action
	Concluding remarks: differential mobility powers in social reproduction
5 Migrant Organizing
	Migrant women strike in 1970s German plants
	Three types of workers’ power
	Race management: temporariness against sedentarism
	Unions’ immobility and migrant mobility: an ongoing dilemma
	Union–NGO alliances and separate organizing
	Migrant self-organization and collective action within and without unions
	Concluding remarks: recentering migrant agency
Conclusion: Rethinking Worker Power Through Mobility
	Points of tension and resistance in labour mobility regimes: migrants’ logistics
	Labour and social mobility power
	Social reproduction as terrain of struggle: mobility skills
	Beyond structural vs associational worker power: transnational mobility bargaining
	Concluding remarks: the politics of migrant labour
Glossary
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Conclusion
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Index