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Global Labor Migration

New Directions

Edited by Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, and Joo-Cheong Tham

University of Illinois Press, 2023

Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living and working conditions in the past, and what opportunities exist for them today?

Global Labor Migration presents new multidisciplinary, transregional perspectives on issues surrounding global labor migration. The essays go beyond disciplinary boundaries, with sociologists, ethnographers, legal scholars, and historians contributing research that extends comparison among and within world regions. Looking at migrant workers from the late nineteenth century to the present day, the contributors illustrate the need for broader perspectives that study labor migration over longer timeframes and from wider geographic areas. The result is a unique, much-needed collection that delves into one of the world’s most pressing issues, generates scholarly dialogue, and proposes cutting-edge research agendas and methods.

Contributors: Bridget Anderson, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Katie Bales, Jenny Chan, Penelope Ciancanelli, Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos, Eileen Boris, Charlie Fanning, Judy Fudge, Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, Justin Jackson, Radhika Natarajan, Pun Ngai, Bastiaan Nugteren, Nicola Piper, Jessica R. Pliley, Devi Sacchetto, Helen Sampson, Yael Schacher, Joo-Cheong Tham, and Matt Withers

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Hydra Rising

The Enduring Struggle for Freedom, Mobility, and the Commons

Bridget Anderson, Nandita Sharma, and Cynthia Wright, editors

Duke University Press, 2027

Hydra Rising examines everyday resistance to the violence of borders, citizenship, and immigration policing. The book’s contributors, scholars and activists fighting for mobility freedom, track how classed, nationalized, racialized, and gendered divisions separate those who are made into migrants and those who are made into citizens. Inspired by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker’s landmark history book, The Many-Headed Hydra, contributors develop the idea of the Hydra as a method to identify common threads and transformative possibilities across diverse contemporary struggles. Paying close attention to insurgent practices from below, Hydra Rising centers migrantized people who are working to challenge and ultimately overcome the worldwide regime of national borders and the ruling relations giving them form.
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