The making of a new working class? A study of collective actions of migrant workers in South China [PDF]
, 2009 In this study, we argue that the specific process of the proletarianization of Chinese migrant workers contributes to the recent rise of labour protests. Most of the collective actions involve workers' conflict with management at the point of production,
Berlanstein +19 more
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Outsourcing elderly care to migrant workers: the impact of gender and class on the experience of male employers [PDF]
, 2015 This article, based on semi-structured interviews, addresses masculinity in the international division of reproductive labour through an analysis of the impact of gender and class on the outsourcing of elderly care services to migrant care workers.
Gallo, Ester, Scrinzi, Francesca
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Analysing trade-offs and synergies between SDGs for urban development, food security and poverty alleviation in rapidly changing peri-urban areas: a tool to support inclusive urban planning [PDF]
, 2020 Transitional peri-urban contexts are frontiers for sustainable development where land-use change involves negotiation and contestation between diverse interest groups.
Butcher, Bradley +6 more
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Class Politics and Migrants: Collective Action among New Migrant Workers in Britain [PDF]
Sociology, 2014 This article addresses issues of class-based collective action. Through an ethnographic case study examining migrant workers’ political engagements, the article discusses the current relevance of class politics and the role that culture, identity and intersectionality seem to play in it. By focusing on the collective political practices observed among
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Manifestations of Social Class and Agency in Cultural Capital Development Processes: An Empirical Study of Turkish Migrant Women Entrepreneurs in Sweden [PDF]
, 2019 The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.Purpose While migrant women entrepreneurs (MWE) have been studied extensively through the lenses of ...
Yeroz, H.
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Comparative Migration Studies, 2018 Care for young children continues to highly influence the life chances of men and women, even more so when they are migrants. For migrant women, childcare remains a particular challenge when their kin are absent and the gendered norms of work and family ...
Karolina Barglowski, Paula Pustulka
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Caring for the elderly in the family or in the nation? Gender, women and migrant care labour in the Lega Nord [PDF]
, 2017 This article aims at gendering our understanding of populist radical right ideology, policy and activism in Italy. It does so by focusing on migrant care labour, which provides a strategic site for addressing the relationship between anti-immigration ...
Scrinzi, Francesca
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Inte så farligt egentligen: Hur subtil exkludering blir osynlig i klassrummet
Utbildning & Lärande, 2021 Studies of ethnicity's impact on the Swedish school system often focus on students with migrant background in segregated, marginalized areas. This study focuses on how school staff in a prestigious school perceive high-performing students with migrant ...
Layal Kasselias Wiltgren
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Spaces of work and everyday life: labour geographies and the agency of unorganised temporary migrant workers [PDF]
, 2009 In this study, I focus on the agency of unorganised temporary migrant workers' people who travel away to work for just a few weeks or months. Such workers have been relatively neglected in labour geography.
Rogaly, Ben
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Migrants, Media and Cultural Politics in China [PDF]
, 2017 A review of Wanning Sun, Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York and London ...
Woronov, Terry
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