Book Review: Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 609-611
ISSN: 1461-703X
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In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 609-611
ISSN: 1461-703X
In: Peace news, Heft 2555, S. 10
ISSN: 0031-3548
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 31, Heft 4, S. 651-653
ISSN: 1461-703X
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 31, Heft 4, S. 651-654
ISSN: 0261-0183
In: Journal of refugee studies, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 571-589
ISSN: 0951-6328
In: Journal of refugee studies, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 571-588
ISSN: 1471-6925
In: Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 239-254
ISSN: 2515-8546
The 'Ark Re-Imagined' is an art project that envisions a Mesopotamian ark based on Iraq's ancient boat types and vernacular architectural forms. Through exploring and documenting what remains of traditional boatbuilding techniques and related crafts in today's Iraq, the project breaks new ground in the study of Mesopotamian maritime heritage. Engaging at the intersection between art, cultural heritage, ecology and development, the project's 'expeditionary art' approach seeks tangible means to reconnect with the land and rivers through a palette of making techniques and aesthetic forms that have persisted in the region for many millennia. It holds global relevance through its imaginal engagement with the present situation of systemic crisis and potential transformation, drawing parallels between the current climate emergency and that of the Great Flood, and asking what kinds of knowledge, resources and practices an ark for our times needs to preserve.
In: Anti-trafficking review, Heft 5
ISSN: 2287-0113
The topic of forced labour is receiving a growing amount of political and policy attention across the globe. This paper makes two clear contributions to emerging debates. First, we focus on a group who are seldom explicitly considered in forced labour debates: forced migrants who interact with the asylum system. We build an argument of the production of susceptibility to forced labour through the United Kingdom's (UK) asylum system, discussing the roles of compromised socio-legal status resulting from restrictive immigration policy, neoliberal labour market characteristics and migrants' own trajectories. Second, we argue that forced labour needs to be understood as part of, and an outcome of, widespread normalised precarious work. Precarity is a concept used to describe the rise of insecure, casualised and sub-contracted work and is useful in explaining labour market processes that are conducive to the production of forced labour. Using precarity as a lens to examine forced labour encourages the recognition of extreme forms of exploitation as part of a wider picture of systematic exploitation of migrants in the labour market. To understand the reasons why forced migrants might be drawn into severe labour exploitation in the UK, we introduce the concept of hyper-precarity to explain how multidimensional insecurities contribute to forced labour experiences, particularly among forced migrants in the global north. Viewing forced labour as connected to precarity also suggests that avenues and tools for tackling severe labour exploitation need to form part of the wider struggle for migrant labour rights.
In: Lewis, H and Waite, L. (2015) 'Asylum, Immigration Restrictions and Exploitation: Hyperprecarity As a Lens for Understanding and Tackling Forced Labour' Anti-Trafficking Review, Special Issue, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking, No. 5.
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The topic of forced labour is receiving a growing amount of political and policy attention across the globe. This paper makes two clear contributions to emerging debates. First, we focus on a group who are seldom explicitly considered in forced labour debates: forced migrants who interact with the asylum system. We build an argument of the production of susceptibility to forced labour through the United Kingdom's (UK) asylum system, discussing the roles of compromised socio-legal status resulting from restrictive immigration policy, neoliberal labour market characteristics and migrants' own trajectories. Second, we argue that forced labour needs to be understood as part of, and an outcome of, widespread normalised precarious work. Precarity is a concept used to describe the rise of insecure, casualised and sub-contracted work and is useful in explaining labour market processes that are conducive to the production of forced labour. Using precarity as a lens to examine forced labour encourages the recognition of extreme forms of exploitation as part of a wider picture of systematic exploitation of migrants in the labour market. To understand the reasons why forced migrants might be drawn into severe labour exploitation in the UK, we introduce the concept of hyper-precarity to explain how multidimensional insecurities contribute to forced labour experiences, particularly among forced migrants in the global north. Viewing forced labour as connected to precarity also suggests that avenues and tools for tackling severe labour exploitation need to form part of the wider struggle for migrant labour rights.
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In: Policy & politics: advancing knowledge in public and social policy, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 21-38
ISSN: 0305-5736
In: Policy & politics, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 21-38
ISSN: 1470-8442
The concept and policy of 'multiculturalism' are under continuing attack. A broad policy language has replaced 'race' and ethnicity agendas. We demonstrate how 'community cohesion' and 'equalities' became dominant concepts in managing cultural relations in England. Local authority and community perspectives in one northern city reveal good local practice being undermined by national discourses stigmatising British Muslims, creating barriers to integration, resulting in a dual, conflicting process. While community cohesion de-emphasises 'race', ethnic and religious differences are highlighted in security and immigration discourses.