Intro: Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New World Order

Schierup, Carl-Ulrik,1948-Linköpings universitet,REMESO - Institutet för forskning om Migration, Etnicitet och Samhälle,Filosofiska fakulteten,Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier,REMESO (author)

Any consideration of global migration in relation to work and citizenship must necessarily be situated in the context of the Great Recession. A whole historical chapter – that of neoliberalism – has now closed and the future can only be deemed uncertain. Migrant workers were key players during this phase of the global system, supplying cheap and flexible labour inputs when required in the rich countries. Now, with the further sustainability of the neoliberal political and economic world order in question, what will be the role of migration in terms of work patterns and what modalities of political citizenship will develop? While informalization of the relations of production and the precarization of work were once assumed to be the exception, that is no longer the case.As for citizenship this book posits a parallel development of precarious citizenship for migrants, made increasingly vulnerable by the global economic crisis. But we are also in an era of profound social transformation, in the context of which social counter-movements emerge, which may halt the disembedding of the market from social control and its corrosive impact.

Munck, Ronaldo (author)
Delgado Wise, Raul (author)
Linköpings universitetREMESO - Institutet för forskning om Migration, Etnicitet och Samhälle (creator_code:org_t)

In:Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New World Order: Routledge9780415683272

By the author/editor: Schierup, Carl-U ...; Munck, Ronaldo; Delgado Wise, Ra ...

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