Search Results for migrant movements

... on the western Mediterranean Sea. The Alarm Phone, an activist hotline assisting migrants in distress at sea, has been involved in everyday struggles over movement in all three Mediterranean regions, so that tracing its interventions can provide insights into the complex interplay between enactments...

... or the Phil- ippines, or the new forms of value extraction occurring along the frontier of humanitarian technologies that track migrants’ movements and economic transactions. Rather, it is to account for how the circulatory aspects of migra- tion cross increasingly complicated arrangements of territory...

... . Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement . Chicago : Haymarket Books . De Genova Nicholas . 2013 . “ Spectacles of Migrant ‘Illegality’: The Scene of Exclusion, the Obscene of Inclusion .” Ethnic and Racial Studies 36 , no. 7 : 1180 – 98...

...Enrica Rigo; Francesca De Masi The article reflects on the Italian experience of the Non Una di Meno (No One Less) feminist movement and the interconnection between the struggle against patriarchal violence and the struggle for the freedom of movement of migrants. By starting from the concrete...

..., breaking the migrants’ segregation was a key factor. Paradoxically, Romanians, who enjoy greater freedom of movement, seem less willing to engage in clashes in the workplace than Burkinabés (natives of Burkina Faso), despite the latter’s more precarious legal position. The research for this article...

... and its policy of embracing globalization created the conditions for the defeat of China’s traditional urban working class. Coinciding with this moment has been the gradual emergence of a new movement of labor headed by migrant workers who have taken advantage of structural flaws in China’s development...

...Jane Juffer Taking its cue from Emmanuel Levinas's notion that the “nudity” of the face creates the possibility for ethical encounters, this essay considers the face of the Latino and Latin American migrant in the United States at a seemingly contradictory moment. On the one hand, this is a time...

... and a rm that migrants, through their myriad peregrinations, pose the right of movement as an essential freedom, one that stands at the root of all other freedoms. Beyond humanitarian aid and militant hospitality, open borders and freedom of movement are principles that should guide our politics today. We...

..., there is widespread pessimism about labor organizing and its importance, com- pared to other social forces and alliances, as a means to challenge capitalism. At a time when the global labor movement is on the defensive, self-organized protests and strikes by migrant workers in China and elsewhere are a testa- ment...

... tightly constrained. Migrants are extracted from their hometowns and inserted in a foreign workplace with great precision, and they are obliged to return home once the job contract expires. The movement thus assumes the form of “labor transplant.” Unlike project-based labor deployment that is collectively...

... of Europe. This condition, it argues, renders migrant spaces largely uninhabitable and highlights how borders impact not only labor regimes but also the politics of dwelling. At the same time, the article employs the notion of “unsettling” to inquire into the possibility for alternative notions of place...

... an unprecedented prominence to the veritable and undeniable autonomy of (transnational, cross-border) migrant and refugee movements, replete with their heterogeneity of insistent, disobedient, and incorrigible practices of appropriating mobility and making claims to space (Bojadžijev and Mezzadra 2015; De...

... of peasants-turned-workers from their villages to the workers’ quar- ters in the urban centers of theWest.The protagonist in this story is the cate- gorical international migrant worker, primarily taking part in institutional- ized worker exchanges, known as guest-worker programs. The movement of labor...

... they continued to express as they crossed their borders. Unable to offer a political response to migrants unruly movements, and as the frail bodies of migrants triggered deep political crisis at national and European levels, European states embarked on a desperate quest to seal off their borders once again...

... of borders, the quest for freedom of movement, the conduct of life beyond the bearings of home all suggest a questioning of the geographical and political coordinates that furnish the analytical units of area studies or world politics. We title this Against the Day section Migrant Struggles in East...

... in Bangla- desh, Nepal, and Cambodia, where workers had no choice but to opt for migrant labor, I realized that migrant labor is just a phenomenon entailed by globalization. I started to think about the possibilities of alternative social movements. Bidduth established BPS (Bangladesh Patriot Society) after...

... and absolute sovereignty, migrants would then be thought of as having absolute and sovereign freedom of movement. This is not surprising, since autonomy commonly refers precisely to the „ction of the subject being isolated from its social and material surroundings. This concept of autonomy stems from...

.... García, Carlos. 2015. “Nine Phrases the Migrant Rights Movement Needs to Leave in 2015.” Latino Rebels, December 31. www.latinorebels.com/2015/12/31/ninephrases/. Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. 2007. “In the Shadow of the Shadow State.” In The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non...

... states in sharing the burden of refugees; conversely, solidarity among and toward migrants has been largely criminalized. A shift toward the politics of freedom of movement would instead take seriously the proposal of granting free circulation of asylum seekers within the EU, thus reducing the arbitrari...

... and migration as these concepts are traditionally used, but between social reproduction and mobility. Thinking of domestic work not only as gendered but also as it e ects socially reproductive processes, and keeping an eye on the many forms of mobility that matter to migrants apart from their movements...