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  • Underpaid and Unrecognized

    State-Induced Unfree Labour

    Series series Oxford Labour Law
    Unfree labour is not a relic of pre-modern economies, nor a peripheral concern within contemporary labour regulation. It is not confined to criminal enterprises or the illicit margins of the market. Rather, it is sustained, expanded, and legitimated by state institutions that claim to be its citizens' guardians. Underpaid and Unrecognized: State-Induced Unfree Labour begins from the premise that, ... Read more

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  • Global Labor Migration

    New Directions

    Series series Studies of World Migrations
    Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living ... Read more

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  • Pandemic Legalities

    Legal Responses to COVID-19 – Justice and Social Responsibility

    Series series Law, Society, Policy
    The effects of COVID-19 are visited disproportionately on the already disadvantaged.This important text maps out ways in which those already disadvantaged have been affected by legal responses to COVID-19. Contributors tackle issues including virtual trials, adult social care, racism, tax and spending, education and more. They reflect on the implications of COVID-19 and express concerns with ... Read more

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  • Centering Multilingual Learners and Countering Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education

    Principles, Policies and Practices

    Series Book 3 - Language, Education and Diversity
    This book details a three-year, multi-stranded study of teacher education programs that prepare future teachers to work with multilingual learners. The book examines how racism and linguicism collaborate to shape the conditions under which teacher candidates learn how to teach. The analysis traces dynamic shifts in thinking and practice as participants reflected on their personal, professional and ... Read more

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  • A Family Matter

    Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy

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  • International Migration: A Very Short Introduction

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    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration -- both legal and illegal -- to reveal that migration actually presents ... Read more

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  • The Dispersion of Power

    A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy

    The Dispersion of Power is an urgent call to rethink centuries of conventional wisdom about what democracy is, why it matters, and how to make it better. Drawing from history, social science, psychology, and critical theory, it explains why elections do not and cannot realize the classic ideal of popular rule, and why prevailing strategies of democratic reform often make things worse. Instead, ... Read more

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  • Neoliberalism

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    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been associated with various political leaders from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Bill Clinton, to Tony Blair, Barack Obama, and Manmohan Singh. Neoliberalism even penetrated deeply into ... Read more

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  • Red Tory

    How Left and Right have Broken Britain and How we can Fix It

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  • How Good We Can Be

    Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country

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