Migrant Organising

Community Unionism, Solidarity and Bricolage
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46494-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 515 g

Reihe: International Comparative Social Studies

In Migrant Organising: Community Unionism, Solidarity and Bricolage, Emma Martín-Díaz and Beltrán Roca explore recent developments in community unionism and solidarity networks among migrant workers in a post-Fordist context characterised by transnationalism and global chains.

The contributions in this edited book describe different types of trade union strategies toward migrant workers and the rise of solidarity and bricolage initiatives in situations in which conventional union organising cannot succeed. Cases from Germany, Spain, Italy and Argentina reveal that the transformation of work, the rise of global chains and the intensification of international migrations are the basis of new forms of union and extra-union intervention.

Contributors include: Beltrán Roca, Emma Martín-Díaz, Simone Castellani, Mark Bergfeld, Juan Pablo Aris-Escarcena, Giulia Borraccino, Paula Dinorah Salgado, Alicia Reigada, Giuseppe D’Onofrio and Jon Las Heras.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Martín-Díaz, Emma

Roca, Beltrán

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Post-Fordism, Transnationalism and Global Chains as a Context for Community Unionism and Solidarity Networks

Beltrán Roca and Emma Martín-Díaz

1 Labour Activism and Organisational Bricolage among Spanish and Italian Emigrants in Germany

Simone Castellani and Beltrán Roca

2 Community through Corporatisation? The Case of Spanish Nurses in the German Care Industry

Mark Bergfeld

3 Cross-Border Domestic Work in Ceuta: Challenges and Alternative Organisations

Emma Martín Díaz and Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena

4 Organising Migrant Porters of the Logistic Sector: The Italian Case of SI Cobas

Giulia Borraccino

5 Migrant Worker Organisations and Overexploitation in the Garment Industry in Argentina

Paula Dinorah Salgado

6 Collective Action, Experience and Identity in Global Agrarian Enclaves: The Case of Andalusia, Spain

Alicia Reigada

7 Transforming Labour Law or Recurring to Grass-Root Mobilisation? The Struggles over the Empowerment of Tomato-picking Migrant Workers in Southern Italy

Giuseppe D’Onofrio and Jon Las Heras

8 Putting the Pieces Together: Post-Fordist Migrations, Community Unionism, Solidarity Networks and Bricolage

Beltrán Roca and Emma Martín-Díaz

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Emma Martín, Ph.D. (1989), is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Seville (Spain). Her research lines are migrations, inter-ethnic relations, citizenship, human rights and gender. Her last article on migration studies have been published in the journals International Migration and Comparative Migration Studies.

Beltrán Roca, Ph.D. (2011), is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Cádiz (Spain). His research lines are trade unionism, social movements, third sector and migrant workers. His work on migrant workers has been published in journals such as Antipode, Critical Sociology and Migraciones.