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  • Migrants and Migration in Modern North America

    Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics

    Edited by Dirk Hoerder, Nora Faires ...
    Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of people within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States over the past two centuries. Several essays discuss recent migrations from Central America as well. In the introduction, Dirk Hoerder provides a sweeping historical ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Question of Skill in Cross-Border Labour Mobilities

    Edited by Gracia Liu-Farrer, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Michiel Baas ...
    Series series Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
    Selecting migrants based on skill has become a widely practised migration policy in many countries around the world. Since the late 20th century, research on 'skilled' and 'highly skilled' migration has raised important questions about the value and ethics of skill-based labour mobility. More recent research has begun to question the concept of skill and skill categorisation in both government ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Cross-Border Labor Mobility

    Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

    by Caf Dowlah ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This revised and updated book provides unique insight into cross-border labor mobility, from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day. With a focus on the economic factors that underpin human mobility across the world, it charts the different forms of migration from African and Amerindian slaveries, to modern global migration and human trafficking. By highlighting the economic and political ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Labour Crossings

    Brokering Skilled Migrants from Vietnam to Japan

    by Aimi Muranaka ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book advances scholarship on the infrastructural turn in migration studies by foregrounding the underexplored role of migration brokers from receiving countries and catering to foreign professionals. While existing research has predominantly focused on brokerage in migrants' countries of origin, this monograph conceptualises migration brokerage in the host society as a key institutional ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Cross-Border Labor Mobility

    Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

    by Caf Dowlah ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive review of cross-border labor mobility from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day. The book covers African and Amerindian slaveries, indentured servitude of the Indians and the Chinese, guestworker programs, and contemporary labor migration focusing on the United States, the European Union, and the Gulf Region. The book highlights the economics and ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Cross-border EU Employment and its Enforcement

    An Analysis of the Labour and Social Security Law Aspects and a Quest for Solutions

    by Yves Jorens ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book provides insights into the complex labour and social security framework of EU employment and its enforcement. Starting from an analysis of the various EU instruments and case law, it outlines the complicated legal framework, the practical problems involved, and ways to overcome them. In turn, the book puts the evolution of the framework into perspective, reviews the numerous ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas

    The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice

    by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval ...
    Challenging sweatshop labor practices is extremely difficult, but garment workers, labor unions, and non-government organizations from Central America and the United States have successfully mobilized for better wages and working conditions over the past ten years. Those gains have not been broadened or sustained over time, however. This book examines why these various outcomes occurred through a ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Geopolitical Risk, Sustainability and “Cross-Border Spillovers” in Emerging Markets, Volume I

    Constitutional Law, Economic Psychology and Quasi-Labor Issues

    by Michael I. C. Nwogugu ...
    Economic recessions, social networks, environmental damage in several large countries (eg. China, Brazil, U.S.), the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2015 and cross-border spillovers continue to significantly affect economic systems, financial markets, social structures and environmental compliance worldwide. These have rekindled economists’ and policy-makers’ interest in the relationships among ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Geopolitical Risk, Sustainability and “Cross-Border Spillovers” in Emerging Markets, Volume II

    Constitutional Political Economy, Pandemics-Governance And Labor-Oriented Bail-outs/Bail-ins

    by Michael I. C. Nwogugu ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Many emerging market countries are bank-based economies and are increasingly affected by geopolitical risks, U.S. dollar dynamics, regulations, preferential trade agreements (PTAs), MNCs (that often function like international organizations), social networks, labor dynamics, cross-border spillovers and the inefficient expansion of formal/informal microfinance. Country risks, informal economies ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    by Katherine A. Bowie, Barbara J. Dilly, G Feinman, V Heredia, Dolores Koenig, S Kowalewski, Robert C. Marshall, L Nicholas, Sutti Ortiz, John R. Pulskamp, Martha Woodson Rees, Karaleah S. Reichart, Susan D. Russell, John M. Steinberg, Tamar Diana Wilson, Frank Zeidler, Christian Zlolniski ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    This excellent new volume in the series from the Society for Economic Anthropology focuses on the role of labor in contrasting world economies. The contributors offer a diverse collection of case studies, illustrating labor processes in a wide range of contexts in both western and nonwestern societies. The volume presents a detailed portrait of how the mobilization of labor changes dramatically ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Labor of God

    The Agony of the Cross as the Birth of the Church

    by Thomas Andrew Bennett ...
    It is hard to imagine just how startling the Christian message must have sounded to those who first heard it. The story of a crucified messiah was absurd. The death of Jesus as a ransom, a punishment, or a sacrifice was an offense and an affront. Yet, by making the death of Jesus central to its preaching and worship, Christianity took a scandal, the cross, and called it a gospel. In Labor of God, ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism

    West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders

    by Hannah Cross ...
    Series series Routledge Research on the Global Politics of Migration
    People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe. This book offers an explanation for this phenomenon that is based on close analysis of the contradictory economic and political agendas that create and constrain labour migration. It shows how global capitalism regulates different stages of the process within an ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD