Class, contention and a world in motion. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Winnie Lem and Pauline Gardiner Barber.
• Other Names: Lem, Winnie; Barber, Pauline Gardiner
• Contents: Acknowledgements; List of figures Chapter 1. Introduction; Winnie Lem and Pauline Gardiner Barber PART I: CONFIGURATION OF CLASS Chapter 2. Strangers in a Globalising World: Class, Immobility and Livelihood among Afghan Refugee Workers in Iran; Wenona Giles Chapter 3. New Migrants in a New Age: Globalisation, Networks and Gender in Rural Mexico; Frances Abrahamer Rothstein Chapter 4. Relationships between the State and Mobile People: The Unequal Construction and Allocation of Risk and Trust at the U.S.-Mexico Border; Josiah Heyman PART II: MIGRANTS AND MOBILISATION Chapter 5. Political engagement of Latin American in the UK: Issues, strategies, and the public debate; Davide Però Chapter 6. Resisting Fortress Europe: The everyday politics of female transnational migrants; Elisabetta Zontini Chapter 7. Class, gender and history in political activism in Spain; Susana Narotzky Chapter 8. Cell phones, complicity, and class politics in the Philippine labor diaspora; Pauline Gardiner Barber PART III: COMPLICITY AND COMPLIANCE Chapter 9. Migrants Mobilisation And The Making Of Neoliberal Citizens In Contemporary France; Winnie Lem Chapter 10. A clash of histories: Encounters of migrant and non-migrant labourers in the Canadian automobile parts industry; Belinda Leach Chapter 11. Worker Demobilisation In The Global Economy: Unionism And Maquiladoras In Mexico; Marie France Labrecque Notes on Contributors
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 240 pages)
• Subjects: 304.8; Human beings -- Migrations; Migrations of nations; Culture and globalization; Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects; Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes; Culture and globalization; Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects; Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects; Human beings -- Migrations; Migrations of nations; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845458409; 1845458400
• Related ISBNs: 9781845456863; 1845456866
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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