Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance

Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance
Author: Carl-Ulrik Schierup
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-02-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0191044660

Migration, Precarity, & Global Governance explores an understudied, but central, area within contemporary studies of globalisation and precarisation. It relates to the interface between migration, global governance and the role of civil society, with particular focus on the dilemmas and options of trade unions, too often left off the agenda. The volume suggests that the trade union movement is undergoing a fundamental debate about revitalisation, which could play an important role in terms of the economic, political and social integration of migrant workers, with implications for the transformation of contemporary societies in general. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, emphasizing the complexity of historically grounded social relations. It examines international migration as it is impacted by, and impacts on, globalization, social and political struggles, and the recurring crisis of capitalism. The first part of the book presents five complementary perspectives on the political economy of migration, labour, and citizenship. Part Two offers analyses of the relationship between labour unions and migrant workers. Part Three explores the way trade unions, migrant organisations, and other civil society groupings interact with an incipient global governance regime relating to migration. It also examines issues of state and non-state actors' accountability in relation to human rights claims as well as the impact of the norm of corporate social responsibility.

Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance

Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance
Author: Carl-Ulrik Schierup
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2015
Genre: Civil society
ISBN: 9780191795824

For too long the movement of labour and the labour movement have been studied in splendid isolation. This volume addresses their intersection. Karl Polanyi's intuition that history moves through a double movement of disembedding under market rule followed by re-embedding under societal control underlies the overall argument. In different, but complementary, ways the book's fifteen chapters address globalization, international migration, and the precarization of work and citizenship along with diverse social movement responses beyond 'North' and 'South'

Migration, Civil Society and Global Governance

Migration, Civil Society and Global Governance
Author: Carl-Ulrik Schierup
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2020-06-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429627882

How do the United Nations, international organizations, governments, corporate actors and a wide variety of civil society organizations and regional and global trade unions perceive the root causes of migration, global inequality and options for sustainable development? This is one of the most pertinent political questions of the 21st century. This comprehensive collection examines the development of an emerging global governance on migration with the focus on spaces, roles, strategies and alliance-making of a composite transnational civil society engaged in issues of rights and the protection of migrants and their families. It reveals the need to strengthen networking and convergence among movements that adopt different entry points to the same struggle, from fighting ‘managed’ migration to contesting corporate control of food and land. The authors examine the opportunities and challenges faced by civil society in its endeavour to promote a rights-based approach within international and intergovernmental fora engaged in setting up a global compact for the management of migration, such as the Global Forum for Migration and Development, and in other global policy spaces. Chapters 1, 3, and 6 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (Chapters 1 and 6) and a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) (Chapter 3).

The Global Governance of Precarity

The Global Governance of Precarity
Author: Nick Bernards
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351398547

‘Standard’ employment relationships, with permanent contracts, regular hours, and decent pay, are under assault. Precarious work and unemployment are increasingly common, and concern is also growing about the expansion of informal work and the rise of ‘modern slavery’. However, precarity and violence are in fact longstanding features of work for most of the world’s population. Lamenting the ‘loss’ of secure, stable jobs often reflects a strikingly Eurocentric and historically myopic perspective. This book argues that standard employment relations have always co-existed with a plethora of different labour regimes. Highlighting the importance of the governance of irregular forms of labour the author draws together empirical, historical analyses of International Labour Organisation (ILO) policy towards forced labour, unemployment, and social protection for informal workers in sub-Saharan Africa. Archival research, extensive documentary research and interviews with key ILO staff are utilised to explore the critical role the organization’s activities have often played in the development of mechanisms for governing irregular labour. Addressing the increasingly widespread and pressing practical debates about the politics of precarious labour in the world economy this book speaks to key debates in several disciplines, especially IPE, global governance, and labour studies. It will also be of interest to scholars working in development studies and critical political economy.

Handbook on Migration and Development

Handbook on Migration and Development
Author: Raœl Delgado Wise
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789907136

This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the interaction between migration and development from a range of critical and counter-hegemonic perspectives. Exploring the strengths and weaknesses of existing practices connected with the migration and development nexus, contributing authors provide a clear understanding of their complex dynamics.

Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance

Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance
Author: Carl-Ulrik Schierup
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198728867

This volume examines the inter-relationship between migration and trade unions in the age of globalisation.

Critical Perspectives on Global Governance

Critical Perspectives on Global Governance
Author: Jean Grugel
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2007
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0415361273

This book explores and analyzes how liberal global governance is really affecting ordinary people and how this can be both an opportunity and an obstacle to development, citizenship, voice and inclusion. To demonstrate this, case studies represent some of the most marginalized groups of people in Asia and Latin America: children and foreign workers. By taking a 'bottom-up' perspective, this study marks a shift from a vision of liberal global governance as a way to manage ordinary people, to one that posits global governance as a potential opportunity structure for political activism as well as a space of regulation.

Global Migration Governance

Global Migration Governance
Author: Alexander Betts
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191616745

Unlike many other trans-boundary policy areas, international migration lacks coherent global governance. There is no UN migration organization and states have signed relatively few multilateral treaties on migration. Instead sovereign states generally decide their own immigration policies. However, given the growing politicisation of migration and the recognition that states cannot always address migration in isolation from one another, a debate has emerged about what type of international institutions and cooperation are required to meet the challenges of international migration. Until now, though, that emerging debate on global migration governance has lacked a clear analytical understanding of what global migration governance actually is, the politics underlying it, and the basis on which we can make claims about what 'better' migration governance might look like. In order to address this gap, the book brings together a group of the world's leading experts on migration to consider the global governance of different aspects of migration. The chapters offer an accessible introduction to the global governance of low-skilled labour migration, high-skilled labour migration, irregular migration, lifestyle migration, international travel, refugees, internally displaced persons, human trafficking and smuggling, diaspora, remittances, and root causes. Each of the chapters explores the three same broad questions: What, institutionally, is the global governance of migration in that area? Why, politically, does that type of governance exist? How, normatively, can we ground claims about the type of global governance that should exist in that area? Collectively, the chapters enhance our understanding of the international politics of migration and set out a vision for international cooperation on migration.

Precarity and International Relations

Precarity and International Relations
Author: Ritu Vij
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2020-10-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030510964

This book addresses the implications of current thinking on precarity, precariousness and the precariat for the study of International Relations and International Political Economy. Drawing on a broad range of critical theoretical resources including literatures on aesthetics and psychoanalysis as well as feminist, Foucauldian, Marxian and postcolonial social theory, it explores the implications of precarity thought for three concepts: Sovereignty, Solidarities and Work in International Relations. Does precarity re-inscribe or undermine the logic and practices of sovereignty? As a common condition and point of mobilization, does precarity represent a new labor activism or does it find ethical grounds for solidarities that destabilize identities? How is precarity located, practiced and occluded in work relations? Running counter to the contemporary impulse to grasp precarity and processes of its proliferation in homogenized terms as either being ensconced in national imaginaries, or as ushering in a condition of global precarity and a global precariat class, the book also underscores the entanglements of the global, national and local in the discursive and material production of precarity and precariousness in the present conjuncture.

Reluctant Reception

Reluctant Reception
Author: Kelsey P. Norman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108842364

An original, comparative analysis of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North Africa, using Egypt, Morocco and Turkey to explore why, and for what gain, host states treat migrants and refugees with indifference.