... the acceleration of a specific proletarianization—successive generations of rural migrant workers ( nongmingong ) have become the mainstay of the country’s export-processing sector, but they cannot become “free” laborers in the market. Within the dormitory labor regime, in which work and residence are tightly...

.... A significant number of domestic workers in Turkey are migrants who come to the country on their own. However, the migrant domestic worker’s family is a ghostly presence in her employment since the affects she is professionally expected to serve were authentically produced for her own family first. Her mobility...

...Jonathan S. Parhusip Local labor laws in Taiwan push migrant workers to run away from contracted employment arrangements and become undocumented. This article examines the common forms of struggle pursued by runaway Indonesian migrant workers with a focus on the informal organizational structures...

...Tim Pringle This essay contrasts the scattered resistance of Chinese urban workers to the restructuring of state-owned enterprises at the turn of the century with the long march of migrant workers from victims to subjects. I argue that the “functional authoritarian” nature of the Chinese state...

...Manie (Jong-Man Choi); Joyce C. H. Liu; Brett Neilson; Irene (HyeJung) Ahn Bidduth, Syed, and Samar were dishonorably deported from South Korea about fifteen years ago while they were protesting for the rights of undocumented migrant workers. Since returning to their home countries, Bangladesh...

...Rhacel Salazar Parreñas; Rachel Silvey Domestic workers comprise the largest group of female migrant workers today, and they are among the most precarious workers internationally. This article explores the aspects of the organization of domestic work that contribute to keeping it an insecure...

...Verónica Gago The article criticizes the way in which the perspective of trafficking employs the label of “slave labor” in Argentine to refer to migrant workers in textile workshops. This label constructs the figure of the migrant as the perfect victim and moralizes migrants’ action, while...

...Kevin Lin; Pun Ngai In June 2018, a group of Chinese truck drivers, overwhelmingly made up of rural migrant workers, staged wildcat strikes across China to demand better pay from a monopolistic, logistic, app-based platform. The strike wave intersects with two emerging phenomena in China...

... workers as migrant workers and as economic agents. In the post-COVID-19 world, these critiques will be stressed even further, as the informal sector expands along with uneven policing, and as sex work continues to serve as a measure of security for some, against a backdrop of extreme and intensifying...

... for the job” under neoliberal conditions, migrant day laborers thus have much to contribute to the mobilization of an antiwork politics. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 day laborers popular education autonomist Marxism temporality migrant workers References Apostolidis Paul...

... life-times from the side of life destined for disposable superfluity. I look at acts of “fate playing” in the contexts of migrant Filipina workers and the urban lumpenproletariat to view those dimensions of social reproductive work on the part of disposable peoples that persist beyond and despite...

... Review of Anthropology , no. 31 : 419 – 47 . Gertel Jörg Sippel Sarah Ruth , eds. 2014 . Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture: The Social Costs of Eating Fresh . London : Routledge . Krissman Fred . 2005 . “ Sin Coyote ni patròn: Why the ‘Migrant Network’ Fails...

... in Asia. The focus is on the large population of migrant workers, stateless persons, and refu- gees under the wave of massive migration in Asia. We analyze institutions and juridical stipulations discriminative, exclusive, and exploitative prac- tices in different societies. We also establish platforms...

... migrant workers a monthly living allowance of between 10 and 50 percent of their wages, and then remit the balance owed immediately before their actual departure. These methods are intended to prevent workers from run- ning away or overstaying their visas. Ye s job contract explicitly prohibited her from...

... ). Samaddar Ranabir , ed. 2020 . Borders of an Epidemic: COVID-19 and Migrant Workers . Kolkata : Calcutta Research Group . Shah Waseem Ahmed . 2016 . “ View from the Courtroom: Pakistan’s Citizenship Law in the Limelight .” Dawn , September 19 . dawn.com/news/1284651 . Singh...

... mobility coming from countries with lower average wage levels, trade unions in particular have to mobilize new resources and go beyond their traditional focus on labor market insiders. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 German meat processing industry migrant workers posted workers directive...

... as the one thousand plus garment workers who died in the 2013 Rana Plaza factory building collapse in Bangladesh (Yardley 2013), migrant poultry workers whose ruthless exposure to job- related injury is routinely facilitated by US immigration authorities (Grabell 2017), Uber employees induced by video...

..., and Unequal Citizens in the Global Context (awarded by CHCI- Mellon Foundation) (2019 21). 686 The South Atlantic Quarterly July 2021 Manie (Jong-Man Choi) has been working on the production of documenta- ries on migrant labor in South Korea since 2002. He lectures on media production at the migrant workers...

... Studies 52 , no. 11 : 2035 – 50 . Theodore Nik Valenzuela Abel Jr. Meléndez Edwin . 2009 . “ Worker Centers: Defending Labor Standards for Migrant Workers in the Informal Economy .” International Journal of Manpower 30 , no. 5 : 422 – 36 . Zibechi Raúl . 2010...

... with the formation of the Confederation of Workers of the Popular Economy (CTEP),1 an example of unionization of informal, precarious, and migrant workers that brings together negotiation with the state, social conflict, and mutualism. The cri- sis of the wage as a method of social inclusion, the reorganization...