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Migration, Precarity, & Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour
Carl-Ulrik Schierup
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Description for Migration, Precarity, & Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour
Hardcover. This volume examines the inter-relationship between migration and trade unions in the age of globalisation. Editor(s): Schierup, Carl-Ulrik; Munck, Professor Ronaldo; Neergaard, Anders; Likic-Brboric, Branka. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; KCF; KNXB2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 652.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
652g
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198728863
SKU
V9780198728863
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Ref
99-12
About Carl-Ulrik Schierup
Professor Carl-Ulrik Schierup is Director of the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), ISV, Linköping University, Sweden. He has since 1992 acted as the Director of several major research programmes and research centres on migration and ethnic relations in Scandinavia. He has published broadly on issues of migration and labour, ethnic relations, racism, multiculturalism and nationalism. ... Read more
Reviews for Migration, Precarity, & Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour
Useful for both students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, it provides opportunities to reflect on the importance of migrant workers in the current economic system, while at the same time emphasising their precariousness and vulnerability.
Rasmus Ahlstrand, Acta Sociologica
Rasmus Ahlstrand, Acta Sociologica