Labour migration has been on the agenda of many countries around the globe, and governments of both sending and receiving countries have made attempts to develop regulatory mechanisms to deal with the phenomenon. This multidisciplinary book opens the debate on the global politics of labour migration by proposing a re-assessment of the interaction between states regarding labour migration.
Labour migration has been on the agenda of many countries around the globe at the same time as governments of both sending and receiving countries have been trying to develop regulatory mechanisms. This book opens the debate on the global politics of labour migration by proposing a re-assessment of the interaction between states regarding labour migration. Presenting case-specific scholarship from leading experts from five different continents, each contribution engages with the changing landscape of migration control and teases out emerging control patterns, dynamics and correlations that can be made between them and existing control paradigms. The multidisciplinary and global focus in 'Constructing and Imagining Labour Migration' sheds much needed light on the mechanisms deployed by states in their attempts to control labour migration and on the manner in which these mechanisms impact upon migrants themselves, leaving some caught up in the politics of labour market control
Introduction; I: Uncertain Borders, Empty Control Claims: Labour
Migration Regimes with Weak Control Claims; 1: When Borders Fail: Illegal',
Invisible Labour Migration and Basotho Domestic Workers in South Africa; 2:
(In)hospitable Border Zones: Situating Bolivian Migrants' Presence at
Brazilian Crossroads; 3: Labour Migration Regulation in Malaysia: A Policy of
High Numbers and Low Rights; 4: Examining Labour Migration Regimes in East
Asia: Appearance and Technique of Control in Taiwan *; 5: Implications for
Policy Discourse: The Influx of Zimbabwean Migrants into South Africa; II:
The Appearance of Control: Examining Labour Migration Regimes with High
Control Claims; 6: Advantage Canada' and the Contradictions of (Im)migration
Control; 7: Competing Interests in the Europeanization of Labour Migration
Rules; 8: Australia and Labour Migration; 9: The Outside-In' An Overview of
Japanese Immigration Policy from the Perspective of International Relations
1; III: Equivocal Claims: Examining Labour Migration Regimes with Ambivalent
Control Claims; 10: Equivocal Claims? Ambivalent Controls? Labour Migration
Regimes in the European Union; 11: Nationality: An Alternative Control
Mechanism in an Area of Free Movement?; 12: Migration Flows and Security in
North America; 13: Equivocal Claims: Examining Labour Migration Regimes with
Ambivalent Control Claims Central Asian States' Policies on Migration
Control; 14: Reflections on Immigration Controls and Free Movement in Europe
Elspeth Guild and Sandra Mantu, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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