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• 15 jui 2020

  Call for papers - Geography

  Labour and Migration in the Age of Borders

  The recent focus in politics and the media on the “migration crisis” and the rise of populisms in Europe is an invitation to interrogate migrations in the light of geopolitical, ethical or identity approaches. With this thematic issue we wish to complement, not contradict, these approaches by reintroducing the economic dimension of migration through a study of the multiple forms of work and labor; and address the entanglements between migration policy and work. This special issue asks the following question: what can we learn from the exploration of migrant labor in an age of advanced capitalism and border consolidation? It will look at the relation between migratory statuses, legal and professional situations, under a juridical and socio-economic perspective: at the articulation of power relations within forms of migrant labor; at the impact of processes of borderization on the various worlds of labor; at the forms of resistance to exploitation and subjugation of migrant workers or employees working with migrants. These multiple forms of action at the margins indicate that rather than being depoliticized, labor — and especially labor as it is transformed by migration — remains today a privileged site for understanding the political effects of greater flexibility when it comes to working conditions, the denial of recognition for workers and the hidden face of authoritarian capitalism.

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• 19 sep 2012

  Lisbon

  Study days - Economy

  Trabalho doméstico e imigração: classe, género e etnicidade no mercado de trabalho

  Em particular nas últimas duas décadas, alguns sectores do mercado de trabalho nacional têm acompanhado mudanças globais de consolidação da debilidade dos vínculos de trabalho que enquadram a larga maioria dos protagonistas destes sectores e que se têm traduzido numa presença crescente de imigrantes. O serviço doméstico e a prestação de cuidados são um desses espaços onde dinâmicas sociais, políticas e económicas se cruzam para dar forma a um contexto caracterizado por uma forte vulnerabilidade e precariedade dos laços laborais, em larga medida também explicado pelos traços que definem a condição genérica do imigrante económico.

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