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Precarious lives : forced labour, exploitation and asylum / / Hannah Lewis [and three others]



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Autore: Lewis Hannah Visualizza persona
Titolo: Precarious lives : forced labour, exploitation and asylum / / Hannah Lewis [and three others] Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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
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