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Gender, work and migration : agency in gendered labour settings
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ISBN: 1351846213 1315225212 1351846221 0415788528 0367856603 9781315225210 9781351846202 9780415788526 9781351846219 9781351846226 Year: 2018 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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While the feminisation of transnational migrant labour is now a firmly ingrained feature of the contemporary global economy, the specific experiences and understandings of labour in a range of gendered sectors of global and regional labour markets still require comparative and ethnographic attention. This book adopts a particular focus on migrants employed in sectors of the economy that are typically regarded as marginal or precarious – domestic work and care work in private homes and institutional settings, cleaning work in hospitals, call centre labour, informal trade – with the goal of understanding the aspirations and mobilities of migrants and their families across generations in relation to questions of gender and labour. Bringing together rich, fieldwork-based case studies on the experiences of migrants from the Philippines, Bolivia, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Mauritius, Brazil and India, among others, who live and work in countries within Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America, Gender, Work and Migration goes beyond a unique focus on migration to explore the implications of gendered labour patterns for migrants’ empowerment and experiences of social mobility and immobility, their transnational involvement, and wider familial and social relationships.


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Patterns of exploitation : understanding migrant worker rights in advanced democracies
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ISBN: 0197599125 0197599141 0197599133 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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Numbering an estimated 164 million globally, migrant workers are an essential component of contemporary businesses. Despite their number and indispensability in the global economy, migrant workers frequently lack the legal protections enjoyed by other workers. In Patterns of Exploitation, Anna K. Boucher looks at workplace violations across four major immigration countries: the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Incorporating interviews, the Migrant Worker Rights Database, and in-depth analysis of court cases, Boucher uses legal storytelling to document individual migrant experiences and assess the patterns of exploitation that emerge in case narratives. This unique mixed-methods approach provides a novel understanding of migrant workplace violations across a variety of immigration contexts.


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Migration from Malawi to South Africa : a historical and cultural novel
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ISBN: 9956764345 9789956764341 9789956763955 9956763950 Year: 2018 Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, Project MUSE,

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Since the discovery and exploitation of minerals like gold, diamond and copper in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Malawi has played the role of a labour supplier. Malawians were attracted by the relatively higher wages obtaining in the South African mines up to the period of the decline in mine migrancy at the end of the 1980s. Following this decline, a cross-section of Malawians continued to emigrate to South Africa to seek various jobs in the burgeoning informal sector and also for trade purposes. Migration from Malawi to South Africa sheds light on the problems that labour migrants and traders encounter as they are 'toing' and 'froing' between Malawi and South Africa in pursuit of their respective goals. It shows that migration, which initially was exclusively done for wage employment, is becoming more complex by the day. This is a result of the infusion of elements of commercial migration, smuggling and human trafficking. The book advances the argument that the numbers of migrants to South Africa increased in the post-1994 period partly as a result of mal-administration by the successive democratically-elected governments in Malawi. This development weakened Malawi's otherwise promising economy and impoverished the rural masses. The book 'sees' forlorn hope in the future of labour migrants and traders, unless the Malawi Government starts to genuinely have the welfare of the populace at heart! The book is relevant and accessible to policy-makers, university and college students interested in migration studies, general readers and migrants, themselves


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Expats in Germany - Inbound and Outbound
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ISBN: 3110404044 311040401X 9783110404012 9783110404043 9783110404029 3110404028 3110403838 9783110403831 3110403838 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Die zunehmende Internationalisierung des Geschäftsverkehrs führt zu einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher, grenzübergreifender Leistungs- und Austauschbeziehungen im täglichen Geschäft. Teilnehmer und Nutznießer dieser Internationalisierung sind nicht nur große Konzerne, sondern auch kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen, für die sich auf den internationalen Märkten erhebliche Chancen bieten. Mit der wachsenden Internationalisierung geht die Zunahme internationaler Mitarbeitereinsätze einher. In der betrieblichen Praxis wächst daher die Anzahl von Fragen ausländischer Firmen, Firmeninhaber, Personal-, Steuer- und Rechtsleiter, Investoren und ausländischer Arbeitnehmern etc. Um sicher zu gehen, dass der Entsendeprozess von Mitarbeitern sowohl nach Deutschland als auch das Empfangen aus Deutschland reibungslos und effizient verläuft, beantwortet das Werk dem ausländischen Anwender (Firma oder Arbeitnehmer) die am häufigsten gestellten Fragen. Der Fokus des Werks liegt auf der Beantwortung jener Fragestellungen, die sich bei der täglichen Personalarbeit stellen. Es ist ein Nachschlagewerk mit dem Blickwinkel des ausländischen Rechtsanwenders. The increasing internationalization of business leads to a cornucopia of differing cross-border exchanges in one's daily work. Participants and other beneficiaries of this internationalization include not only multi-national companies but also SMEs (small and mid-sized enterprises), for which the increased global market access offers substantial opportunities. With the growth of internationalization, too, comes an increase in employee assignments. In business practice, the number of questions from foreign companies, management, HR, tax and legal professionals, investors and non German employees etc., ist growing. In order to be certain that sending employees to or from Germany on work assignments can take place as smoothly and efficiently as possible, relevant questions asked by companies and workers need to be taken into consideration. This text does just that with a focus on answering common expat-relevant questions posed by professionals. It is a reference work for those foreigners subject to and applying German law.


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International labour migration : A rights-based approach.
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ISBN: 9789221191209 Year: 2010 Publisher: ILO (International Labour Office)


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Recruiting immigrant workers : Australia 2018
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ISBN: 9264288287 9264288279 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,


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Improving the psychological health of foreign workers in developing countries : a socio-ecological analysis of the Saudi construction industry
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ISBN: 1536120936 9781536120936 9781536120745 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, [New York] : Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,


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The long road ahead : status report on the implementation of the Asean mutual recognition arrangements on professional services
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ISBN: 9292577360 9292577352 Year: 2017 Publisher: Metro Manila, Philippines : Asian Development Bank,


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Blessing and curse of intra-EU mobility : free labour movement in Spain, Germany, and the UK
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ISBN: 3658314869 3658314850 Year: 2021 Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

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Christiane Heimann provides insights on how the economic and political situation in Spain, Germany and the UK affects the institutional implementation of free labour movement and how mobile EU citizens navigate the institutional policies strategically. The study examines different profiles of EU citizens exercising free labour movement and shows ways of EU labour recruitment and transnational labour integration taking into account the institutional implementation of related EU policies. Intra-Community mobility policies and practices will be assessed in terms of their effectiveness for international recruitment and labour integration. Contents EU Polity and harmonisation Right places for intra-EU mobility Creating the right circumstances in Spain, Germany, and UK Right people: myth, motives, profiles and chances Target Groups Lecturers and students of social sciences, sociology, political science, economics, human resources management, social work and business education Politicians and practitioners dealing with migration and integration, international recruiters, personnel consultants and human resource managers interested in intra-EU migration policies and practices The Author Christiane Heimann completed her PhD at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS). She has conducted research and taught at the Universities in Germany, the UK, the US and Spain. Besides, she has worked in business and policy consultancy in Germany, Spain and at EU-level. .


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Milking in the Shadows : Migrants and Mobility in America's Dairyland
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ISBN: 0813596459 0813596424 Year: 2019 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,

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Migrant workers live in a transnational world that spans the boundaries of nation-states. Yet for undocumented workers, this world is complicated by inflexible immigration policies and the ever-present threat of enforcement. Workers labeled as "illegals" wrestle with restrictive immigration policies, evading border patrol and local police as they risk their lives to achieve economic stability for their families. For this group of workers, whose lives in the U.S. are largely defined by their tenuous legal status, the sacrifices they make to get ahead entail long periods of waiting, extended separation from family, and above all, tremendous uncertainty around a freedom that many of us take for granted-everyday mobility. In Milking in the Shadows, Julie Keller takes an in-depth look at a population of undocumented migrants working in the American dairy industry to understand the components of this labor system. This book offers a framework for understanding the disjuncture between the labor desired by employers and life as an undocumented worker in America today.

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