Race, gender and contemporary international labor migration regimes : 21st-century coolies? / edited by Leticia Saucedo, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez.
"Migrant workers around the world are subject to exploitative labor practices that give employers extraordinary bargaining power. This book brings together researchers, practitioners, and advocates who explore the many ways that contracted migrant workers are rendered vulnerable in the workplac...
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts :
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Migrant workers, global racial capitalism and unfreedom
- Introduction to Race, Gender and Contemporary International Labor Migration Regimes / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
- The narrative of ethno-racial labor competition and employee choice / Leticia Saucedo
- Part II: The return of the Bracero Program? : H-visa holders in the United States
- Bringing back the Bracero Program : the migration industry in the recruitment of H-2 visa workers / Rubén Hernández-León, Efrén Sandoval Hernández, and Lidia E. Muñoz Paniagua
- Delegating discrimination in the temporary worker visa programs / Jennifer J. Lee and Rachel Micah-Jones
- Tech coolies : Indian scientists and engineers entering the United States on H-1B visas / Roli Varma
- Part III: Legal and organizing strategies for U.S. immigrant and migrant workers
- Workers with temporary protected status : the value and limits of delinking immigration and employment status / Shannon Gleeson and Kati L. Griffith
- Garment worker organizing in Los Angeles / Mar Martinez and Mercedes Cortez
- Emerging forms of organization for precarious migrant workers / Ken Wang
- Part IV: Domestic workers and the politics of representation
- Domestic workers and storytelling advocacy : competing visions of migrant worker organizing / Sujatha Fernandes
- Aesthetics of precarity : racial performativity in the archive of migrant domestic work / María Eugenia López-García
- Part V: The complexities of global processes for workers
- Sustaining inequality : the incorporation of migrant remittances in the Philippine political economy / Suzy Lee.