Course literature is preliminary.
Required readings
Agamben, Giorgio Means Without End: Notes on Politics. Trans. Vincenzo Binetti & Cesare Casarino. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 1-68.
Anderson, B. (2015). Precarious Work, Immigration and Governance. I C.-U. Schierup, R. Munck, B. Likic-Brboric, & A. Neergaard (Red.), Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Baey, G. and Yeoh, A. S. Branda (2018) ‘‘The lottery of my life’’: Migration trajectories and the production of precarity among Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore’s construction industry, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol. 27(3) pp. 249–272.
Balibar, Etienne and Immanuel Wallerstein (1991) Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities, London: Verso, pp. 15-67 (Part I).
Bonacich, E., Alimahomed, S. & Wilson, J. B. (2008) ‘The Racialization of Global Labor,’ American Behavioral Scientist 52: 3).
Brass, T. (2011). Unfree labour as primitive accumulation? Capital & Class, 35(1), 23–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816810392969
Brownlee, P. (2016) ‘Global Capital's Lieutenants: Australia's Skilled Migrant Intake and the Rise of Global Value Chain Production’ Journal of Australian Political Economy, No. 77, Winter 2016.
Buckley, K 2013, 'Global Civil Society: The Dialectics of Concept and Reality' Globalizations, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 231-244. DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2013.786231
Burawoy, M. (1976). The functions and reproduction of migrant labor: comparative material from Southern Africa and the United States. American journal of Sociology, 1050-1087.
Castles S. (2015) 'Migration, Precarious Work, and Rights: Historical and Current Perspectives'. In Schierup, Carl-Ulrik, et al. (eds.) Migration, Precarity and Global Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 46-67. (23 p)
Castles, S. (2011). ‘Migration, Crisis, and the Global Labour Market,’ Globalizations, 8(3): 311-324.
Castles, S. (2015). Migration, Precarious Work and Rights: Historical and Current Perspectives. I C.-U. Schierup, R. Munck, B. Likic-Brboric, & A. Neergaard (Red.), Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Celebrating the Enduring Contribution of Birds of Passage, ILR Review, 69(3), May 2016, pp. 774–782.
Ciupijus, Z. (2011) ‘Mobile central eastern Europeans in Britain: successful European Union citizens and disadvantaged labour migrants?’. Work, Employment and Society, 25 (3): 540-550.
Deshingkar, P., Abrar, C. R., Sultana, T. M., Haque, H. N. K., and Reza, M. S. (2018) Producing ideal Bangladeshi migrants for precarious construction work in Qatar, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1528104
Dumitru, S. (2014) From ‘brain drain’ to ‘care drain’: Women’s labor migration and methodological sexism, Women’s Studies International Forum, 47, 203-212.
Eriksson, Madeleine, and Tollefsen, Aina (2015) ‘New figurations of labour in global circuits: migrant workers in the forest berry industry in Norrland, Sweden’, in Thidermann, Nielsen,(ed) Remapping gender, place and mobility: global confluences and local particularities in Nordic peripheries. Ashgate, Dorchester.
Fitzgerald, I. (2006) Organising Migrant Workers in Construction: Experience from the North East of England, joint UCATT project funded by the TUC. Available at: http://www.nerip.com/Reports_Briefing.aspx?id=198
Fudge, J. (2012) ‘The Precarious Migrant Status and Precarious Employment’, Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 34 (1).
Genelyte, I. (2016) ‘Policy Response to Emigration from the Baltics: Confronting ‘the European Elephant in the Room’’. In Dolvik, Jon Erik and Eldring, Line (eds.) Labour Mobility in the Enlarged Single European Market. Comparative Social Research, Volume 32. Emerald: 45-72.
Gordon, Jennifer (2007) ‘Transnational Labor Citizenship’, S. California Labor Review 80 503.
Grosfoguel, R. L. Oso & A. Christou (2015): ‘‘Racism’, intersectionality and migration studies: framing some theoretical reflections’, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 22(6), 635-65
Grugel, J. and N. Piper, ‘Global governance, economic migration and the difficulties of social activism’, International Sociology 26(4) 435–454
Hepworth, K. (2012) ‘Abject citizens: Italian “Nomad Emergencies” and the deportability of Romanian Roma’, Citizenship Studies, 16:3-4, 431-449.
Hochschild, A. (2000) Global care chains and emotional surplus value, in W. Hutton & A. Giddens (eds.) Living on the Edge: Living with Global Capitalism, London: Jonathan Cape. (available on Lisam).
Hyland, Mary (2015) ‘Trade Unions and Labour Migration. A Case for New Organizational Approaches’ in Carl-Ulrik Schierup et al. (eds), Migration, Precarity and Global Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Igarashi, S. (2011) ‘The New Regional Order and Transnational Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Focusing on Alternative Regionalism from below in the Process of Building the ASEAN Community’, World Political Science Review 7 (1), 1-31.
Klusener, S., Stankuniene, V., Grigoriev, P. and Jasilionis, D. (2015) ‘The Mass Emigration Context from Lithuania: Patterns and Policy Options’. International Migration 53 (5). 179-193.
Krause, M. (2008) ‘Undocumented Migrants. An Arendtian Perspective’, European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 7, No. 3: 331–348.
LeBaron, G. (2015). Unfree Labour Beyond Binaries. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 17(1), 1–19.
Lewis, H., Dwyer, p. Hodkinson, S. (2015) Hyper-precarious lives Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North, Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 39(5) pp. 580–600.
Likic-Brboric, B. and C.-U. Schierup (2015) ‘Labour Rights as Human Rights? Trajectories in the Global Governance of Migration’, Schierup, C-U, Munck, R. Likic-Brboric, B and Neergaard, A. (eds) Migration, Precarity & Global Governance. Challenges and Opportunities for Labour. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 223-245.
Likic-Brboric, B., Z. Slavnic and C. Woolfson (2013). ‘Labour migration and informalisation: East meets West.’ International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 33(11/12): 677-692.
Likić-Brborić B. (2018) “Global migration governance, civil society and the paradoxes of sustainability,” Globalizations, Vol.15, No. 6. DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2018.1503841
Marx. K. and Engels, F. (1848) Manifesto of the Communist Party, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf
McCollum, D., Shubin, S., Apsite, E. and Krisjane, Z. (2013) ‘Rethinking Labour Migration Channels: the Experience of Latvia from EU Accession to Economic Recession’. Population, Space and Place, 19: 688-702.
Mckay, D. (2007) ‘Sending Dollars Shows Feelings’-Emotions and Economies in Filipino Migration, Mobilities, 2:2: 175-194.
Mesic N. and C. Woolfson, (2015) ‘Roma berry-pickers in Sweden: Economic crisis and new contingents of the austeriat’, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 21(1): 37-50.
Mesic, N. (2015) ‘Paradoxes of “free movement”: The role of social movement actors in framing the plight of Roma berry pickers in Sweden, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 36 (5) (2016)
Neergaard, A., & Woolfson, C. (2016). Sweden: A model in dissolution? I S. Marino, J. Roosblad, & R. Penninx (Red.), Trade Unions, Immigration and Immigrants in Europe in the 21th Century: New Approaches under Changed Conditions. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar-ILO.
Overbeek, H. (2002) ‘Neoliberalism and the Regulation of Global Labor Mobility’, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, No. 581, pp. 74-90.
Overbeek, H. (2004) ‘Transnational class formation and concepts of control: towards a genealogy of the Amsterdam Project in international political economy’, Journal of International Relations and Development 7, 113–141 (29) (1 July 2004) | doi:10.1057/palgrave.jird.1800011.
Piper, N.; Rother, S. (2011) ‘Transnational Inequalities, Transnational Responses: The Politicization of Migrant Rights in Asia’, in B. Rehbein (Ed), Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies, New York, Palgrave Macmillan: 235–255.
Polzer, Tara and Jinnah, Zaheera (2014), Migrants and Mobilisation around Socio-Economic Rights, in M. Langford, B. Cousins, J. Dugard and T. Madlingozi (Eds.) Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: Symbol or Substance? New York: Cambridge University Press
Polzer, Tara, and Aurelia Segatti (2012), `From defending migrant rights to new political subjectivities: Gauteng migrants' organisations after May zoo8', in Loren B. Landau (ed.), Exorcising the demon within: Xenophobia, violence, and statecraft in contemporary South Africa. Johannesburg: Wits Press.
Rother, S. (2013a) 'A tale of two tactics: Civil Society and Competing Visions of Global Migration Governance from Below', in Geiger, M. and Pécoud, A. (eds.) Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People, Houndmills: Macmillan
Schierup C.-U. and Bak Jørgensen M. (2016) 'From ‘Social Exclusion’ to ‘Precarity’. The Becoming-migrant of Labour. An Introduction (draft)'. In: Politics of Precarity: Migrant conditions, struggles and experiences. Leiden: Brill: 1-20. (20 p)
Schierup C.-U., Krifors K. and Slavnić Z. (2015) 'Social Exclusion: Migration and Social Vulnerability'. In Dahlstedt, Magnus and Anders Neergaard (eds.) International Migration and Ethnic Relations. Abingdon & New York: Routledge: 200-26. (26 p)
Schierup et al. (2016) ‘Introduction: Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour’, Schierup, et al. eds Migration, Precarity and Global Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-21.
Schierup, Carl-Ulrik and Martin Bak Jørgensen (eds. 2016) Politics of Precarity: Migrant conditions, struggles and experiences, Leiden: Brill Publishers (E-book/LiU library) (Chapter 2, 3, 4).
Schierup, Carl-Ulrik, Munck, Ronaldo, Likic-Brboric, Branka and Neergard, Anders eds (2016) Migration, Precarity and Global Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Schierup, Carl-Ulrik. (2016), Under the Rainbow: Migration, Precarity and People Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Critical Sociology, 1 – 18.
Schierup, C-U., B. Likic-Brboric, R. Delgado Wise, G. Toksöz (2018) “Migration, civil society and global governance: an introduction to the special issue” Globalizations, Special Issue Migration, Civil Society and Global Governance, Vol. 15, No. 6.
Scholte, J. A. (2004) Civil Society and Democratically Accountable Global Governance, Government and Opposition, Volume 39, Issue 2, Spring 2004, Pages 211–233.
Schwenken, H. (2011) An ILO Convention for Domestic Workers: Contextualizing the Debate. In: International Feminist Journal of Politics, 13. H. 3 (Conversations section Hg. mit Elisabeth Prügl).
Schwenken, H. (2014) ‘We want to be the protagonists of our own stories!‘ A participatory research manual on how domestic workers and researchers can jointly conduct research’ (gem. mit S. Azzarello, J. Fish, S. Günther, LM Heimeshoff, C. Hobden, M. Kirchhoff). Kassel. Kassel University Press 2014 (free download).
Scully B. (2016) 'Precarity North and South: A Southern Critique of Guy Standing'. Global Labour Journal, 7(2): 160-73. (13 p)
Slavnic, Z. (2010) ‘Political economy of informalization’, European Societies, 12(1): 3-23.
Slavnic, Z. (2015). ‘Taxi drivers: ethnic segmentation, precarious work, and informal economic strategies in the Swedish taxi industry.’ Journal of Business Anthropology 4(2).
Slavnic, Z. (2016) ‘The Informal Economy and the State’, in S. Routh and V. Borghi (eds.), Workers and the Global Informal Economy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. London and NY, Routledge.
Standing G. (2011) The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury Academic (E-book, LiU Library)
Standing G. (2015) 'From Denizens to citizens: Forging a precariat charter'. In Schierup, Carl-Ulrik, et al. (eds.) Migration, Precarity and Global Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 83-100. (17 p)
Struna, J. (2013) ‘Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Formation’, Globalizations, 10:5, 651-657.
van Hear, N. (2014) ‘Reconsidering Migration and Class’ International Migration Review, Volume 48 Number 1 (Fall 2014): 100–121.
Waite L. (2008) 'A Place and Space for a Critical Geography of Precarity?'. Geography Compass, 3(1): 412-33 (21).
Weber, A., B. Musiolek and S. Maher (2015), ‘False Promises and Movements of Contestation in the Global Garment Industry’ Schierup, C-U, Munck, R. Likic-Brboric, B and Neergaard, A. (eds) Migration, Precarity & Global Governance. Challenges and Opportunities for Labour. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 245-260.
Woolfson, C. Herzfeld Olsson, P., and Thörnqvist, C. (2012) ‘Forced Labour and Migrant Berry Pickers in Sweden’, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 28(2): 147-176.
Wright, Erik Olin. ‘How to be an anti-capitalist for the 21st century’, Journal of Australian Political Economy, No. 77, Winter 2016: 5-22
Zou, M. (2015) The Legal Construction of Hyper-Dependence and Hyper-Precarity in Migrant Work Relations, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, Vol 31 (2), pp.141-162, 2015. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2747823
Ålund,A. & C-A. Schierup (2018): Making or unmaking a movement? Challenges for civic activism in the global governance of migration, Globalizations, Volume 15,Issue 6 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2018.1446599.
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Bakker, Isabella (2007) ‘Social Reproduction and the Constitution of a Gendered Political Economy,’ New Political Economy 12 (4).
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