Precarious lives : forced labour, exploitation and asylum / / Hannah Lewis [and three others]
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| Autore: |
Lewis Hannah
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| Titolo: |
Precarious lives : forced labour, exploitation and asylum / / Hannah Lewis [and three others]
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| Pubblicazione: | Bristol, UK, 2014 |
| Bristol, England ; ; Chicago, Illinois : , : Policy Press, , 2015 | |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.3620941 |
| Soggetto topico: | Political refugees - Legal status, laws, etc |
| Exploitation | |
| Forced labor | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Asylum |
| Labour markets | |
| Migration | |
| Precarity | |
| Work | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | LewisHannah |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | PRECARIOUS LIVES; Contents; List of tables and figures; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Glossary; 1. Introduction: the return of slavery?; Modern slavery and the UK; Research presented in this book; Outline of the book; 2. Structuring forced labour: neoliberal labour markets, immigration policy and forced migration; Introduction; Neoliberalism and the rise of migrant labour exploitation: from a global to a UK context; 'Managed migration': immigration policy in the UK; Conclusion; 3. Forced labour among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK; Introduction |
| Defining forced labourFinding forced migrants in forced labour in the Yorkshire and Humber region; Experiences of severe labour exploitation and forced labour; From practices to processes of forced labour; Conclusion; 4. The significance of socio-legal status; Introduction; A typology: entry into the UK and entry into forced labour; Role of socio-legal status in forced labour processes; Conclusion; 5. The struggle to exit exploitation; Introduction; Pushing back: negotiation, resilience and rejecting exploitation; Exit: escape, walking way, being pushed away | |
| From exit to re-entry: movement along the unfreedom continuumConclusion; 6. Conceptualising hyper-precarious migrant lives: from forced labour to unfreedom; Introduction; Going beyond forced labour; Introducing the continuum of unfreedom; Migrants caught in the hyper-precarity trap; Conclusion; 7. Tackling the hyper-precarity trap; Introduction; Hyper-precarious lives: forced migration, asylum and labour exploitation; Responding to forced and severe labour exploitation of migrants: regularisation, not criminalisation; Conclusion; References; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Engaging with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, this ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Precarious lives |
| ISBN: | 1-4473-2099-9 |
| 1-4473-1167-1 | |
| 1-4473-0692-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996509969803316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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