Precarious lives

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4473-0691-7
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

This ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK.

Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores how asylum and forced labour are linked, and enmeshed in a broader picture of modern slavery produced through globalised working conditions.

Drawing on original evidence generated in fieldwork with refugees and asylum seekers, this is important reading for students and academics in social policy, social geography, sociology, politics, refugee, labour and migration studies, and policy makers and practitioners working to support migrants and tackle forced labour.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Hannah

Dwyer, Peter

Hodkinson, Stuart

Waite, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction;

Free markets, closed borders: migration policy and entry into forced labour;

Experiences of forced labour;

Status matters: socio-legal status and forced labour among asylum seekers and refugees;

The struggle to exit exploitation;

From forced labour to unfreedom: conceptualising migrant lives;

Conclusions: Hyper precarity.

Über Autor(innen)

Dwyer, Peter
Peter Dwyer is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of York. His research and teaching focuses on social citizenship. He led the large ESRC funded Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change (2013-2019) project.

Lewis, Hannah
Dr Hannah Lewis is Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests include community and social relationships, migration and refugee studies; immigration and asylum policy; forced labour and ‘modern slavery’, faith and anti-trafficking; and the ethics and methodologies of research with migrant populations. Her work has been published in many journals and she has contributed to three books.

Waite, Louise
Louise Waite is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests focus on discourses of ‘modern slavery’, unfree/forced labour and exploitative work among asylum seekers and refugees. She has published in a range of peer reviewed journals and in recent collaborative books

Dr Hannah Lewis is Research Fellow in Critical Human Geography, University of Leeds with research interests in forced migration, immigration and asylum policy, unfree/forced labour, community and social relationships.

Peter Dwyer is Professor of Social Policy at the University of York, UK. His research focuses on issues related to social citizenship and migration.

Dr Stuart Hodkinson is a Lecturer in Critical Urban Geography, University of Leeds. His research focuses on urban contestation over privatisation, gentrification and the right to the city.

Dr Louise Waite is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leeds with research interests in migration, citizenship, unfree/forced labour and exploitative work.