Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Food on table, FSA camp -- High Plains -- Sanora Babb with Dust Bowl refugees -- "Dirty Plate Trail" -- "Okies" -- Mexican migrant workers in camp -- Mexican migrant worker with guitar in camp -- Slim Quinteros, labor organizer -- CIO camp, Mexican...

This book examines two major social changes experienced by European cities in the last two decades: post-industrial economic restructuring and new immigration flows. The link between both has been extensively discussed throughout a variety of theoretical approaches and in numerous descriptive...

Introduction : beyond scarcity and surplus -- Part I. Of mangoes and men. Protecting vulnerable citizens -- Cultivating entrepreneurs -- Building influential networks -- Part II. Connective substances. Making kin with gold -- The Rig and the temple -- Part III. The weight of tradition. Blowing...

Young Chinese migrants, the compressed individual and global condition -- Chinese young migrants, subalternity and the compressed individual -- The fabric of "heroes" and emotional capitalism -- Young Chinese migrants, economic cosmopolitanism and globalisation -- Young Chinese migrants and...

Der Aufsatz beschäftigt sich aus Anlass des 50. Jahrestages der Ankunft des einmillionsten Gastarbeiters am Bahnhof Deutz mit der Geschichte und der aktuellen sozialen Lage älterer Ausländer aus den Anwerbestaaten. Bis Anfang der 1970er Jahre war die Wohnsituation der angeworbenen Ausländer...

This book explores the culture of migration that emerged in Malawi in the early twentieth century as the British colony became central to labour migration in southern Africa. Migrants who travelled to Zimbabwe stayed for years or decades, and those who never returned became known as machona –...

"Offers a wide range of new grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organising today. From diverse workers' organisations in South Africa to migrant worker resistance in the Gulf, from forest workers in the Czech Republic to domestic workers' unions in Hong Kong, this book brings...