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Ori, Martina. Vulnerable workers and precarious working. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

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Bruno, Rojas C., and Arze Carlos, eds. País sin industrias, país con empleos precarios: Situación de los derechos laborales en Bolivia, 2011-2012. La Paz: Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Laboral y Agrario, 2014.

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Markowitz, Lisa Beth. The precarious balance of "scaling up": Women's organizations in the Americas. East Lansing, Mich: Women and International Development, Michigan State University, 2001.

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Hye-jin, Kim. Pijŏnggyu sahoe: Puranjŏng han uri ŭi sam kwa nodong ŭl nŏmŏ. Sŏul: Humanit'asŭ, 2015.

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Steinhilper, Elias. Migrant Protest. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463722223.

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Migrant protest has proliferated worldwide in the last two decades, explicitly posing questions of identity, rights, and equality in a globalized world. Nonetheless, such mobilizations are often considered anomalies in social movement studies, and political sociology more broadly, due to "weak interests" and a particularly disadvantageous position of "outsiders" to claim rights connected to citizenship. In an attempt to address this seeming paradox, Migrant Protest: Interactive Dynamics in Precarious Mobilizations explores the interactions and spaces shaping the emergence, trajectory, and fragmentation of migrant protest in unfavorable contexts of marginalization. Such a perspective unveils both the odds of precarious mobilizations and the ways they can be temporarily overcome. While adopting the encompassing terminology of "migrant," this book focuses on precarious migrants, including both asylum seekers and "illegalized" migrants.
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Das Ende der billigen Arbeit in China: Arbeitsrechte, Sozialschutz und Unternehmensförderung für informell Beschäftigte. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2011.

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Wŏn, Hye-jŏng. T'ŭksu koyong kwa chendŏ: Haksŭpchi kyosa nŭn wae kŭlloja ka anin'ga? = The special employment and gender : why are home-study teachers' right as workers not guaranteed by the Labor Standard Act? Kyŏnggi-do P'aju-si: P'urŭn Sasang, 2019.

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Risse im Putz: Autonomie, Prekarisierung und autoritärer Sozialstaat. Berlin: Assoziation A, 2008.

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Prekarisierung und Ressentiments: Soziale Unsicherheit und rechtsextreme Einstellungen in Deutschland. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010.

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Human Rights and Democracy: The Precarious Triumph of Ideals. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013.

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Porta, Donatella Della, Lorenzo Cini, and Riccardo Emilio Chesta. Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age: Precarious Workers Struggles for Rights. Policy Press, 2022.

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Grabham, Emily. Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of Family-Friendly Rights. Policy Press, 2021.

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Rofe, J. Simon, Umberto Tulli, and Giles Scott-Smith. Precarious Equilibrium: Human Rights and détente in Jimmy Carter's Soviet Policy. Manchester University Press, 2020.

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Precarious Equilibrium: Human Rights and détente in Jimmy Carter's Soviet Policy. Manchester University Press, 2020.

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Rofe, J. Simon, Umberto Tulli, and Giles Scott-Smith. Precarious Equilibrium: Human Rights and détente in Jimmy Carter's Soviet Policy. Manchester University Press, 2021.

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Grabham, Emily. Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of Family-Friendly Rights. Bristol University Press, 2021.

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Rofe, J. Simon, Umberto Tulli, and Giles Scott-Smith. Precarious Equilibrium: Human Rights and détente in Jimmy Carter's Soviet Policy. Manchester University Press, 2020.

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Grabham, Emily. Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of Family-Friendly Rights. Bristol University Press, 2021.

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Délano Alonso, Alexandra. Social Rights Beyond Borders. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190688578.003.0005.

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This chapter examines variations in diaspora policies across generations and migration status, considering changes in migrants’ precarious status from the perspective of the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program. It focuses on the ways in which the rhetoric and implementation of Mexico’s diaspora programs has adapted focusing on the 1.5 generation, and the ways in which these policies have been challenged by returned migrants. In the context of massive deportations that have coincided with the rise of the Dreamers movement and the implementation of DACA, origin countries’ attempts to engage this group reveal the challenges and contradictions of diaspora policies that offer assistance abroad and expand the concept and practice of extraterritorial membership in specific moments and for particular groups, but have limited resources and opportunities for those same populations upon their return to their country of origin.
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Coulter, Kendra. Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Coulter, Kendra. Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

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Coulter, Kendra. Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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Lillie, Nathan, and Jens Arnholtz. Posted Work in the European Union: The Political Economy of Free Movement. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Lillie, Nathan, and Jens Arnholtz. Posted Work in the European Union: The Political Economy of Free Movement. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Lillie, Nathan, and Jens Arnholtz. Posted Work in the European Union. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

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Lillie, Nathan, and Jens Arnholtz. Posted Work in the European Union: The Political Economy of Free Movement. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Posted Work in the European Union. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Lillie, Nathan, and Jens Arnholtz. Posted Work in the European Union: The Political Economy of Free Movement. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Délano Alonso, Alexandra. Integration through Ventanillas de Salud and Plazas Comunitarias. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190688578.003.0003.

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This chapter presents empirical evidence of origin-country diaspora programs with a focus on immigrant integration. It draws from examples of programs focused on education, health, financial literacy, and labor rights, carried out mainly by Mexico throughout its consular network in the United States. Through interviews, it examines the ways in which these programs have emerged and evolved, emphasizing the coalitions formed among consulates, public and private institutions in the United States, and migrant organizations. Through relationships of trust established through consulates, migrants and partner organizations, these programs connect migrants with precarious legal status to institutions in the country of destination that support their access to services to ensure the protection of their social rights, which then enable them to claim and exercise political rights.
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Curtis, Neal. Hate in Precarious Times: Mobilising Anxiety from the Alt-Right to Brexit. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.

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Curtis, Neal. Hate in Precarious Times: Mobilising Anxiety from the Alt-Right to Brexit. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.

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author, Dwyer Peter, Hodkinson Stuart author, and Waite Louise 1975 author, eds. Precarious lives: Forced labour, exploitation and asylum. 2015.

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LeMay, Michael C. Religious Freedom in America. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216007302.

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This book provides the answers to controversial questions about religious liberties in the United States and connected issues through balanced, thorough, and nonjudgmental coverage of the issues in a reference format. The subject of religious freedom is important to all American citizens, regardless of religious affiliation or ethnicity. Are the rights of religious individuals being eroded, or is religion being unfairly used to deny basic secular rights to individuals? How will religious institutions adapt to changes in legislation that have an impact on how they operate? Does the Supreme Court have the right to enforce these changes? Finally, how can the precarious separation of church and state be maintained while simultaneously respecting both institutions? This single-volume work provides an introduction that addresses the historical background of religious freedom in America, accurately explains the latest legal developments in religious freedom in the United States, and presents an unbiased account of the probable impact of the new Freedom of Religion laws in the continuing culture war. Readers will gain insight into key controversies such as prayer in public schools, creationism versus evolution, abortion, religious objections to medical care, religious displays in public places, same-sex marriage and LGBT rights, and state and federal religious freedom acts. The book also includes perspective essays by outside contributors, a selection of useful primary documents, a listing of print and nonprint resources, a chronology, and a glossary of terms.
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Collins, Hugh, Gillian Lester, and Virginia Mantouvalou, eds. Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825272.001.0001.

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The book is an interdisciplinary investigation by lawyers and philosophers into the philosophical ideas, concepts, and principles that provide the foundation for the field of labour law or employment law. The book addresses doubts that have been expressed about whether a worker-protective labour law is needed at all, what should be regarded as the proper scope of the field in the light of developments such as the integration of work and home life by means of technology, the globalisation of the economy, and the precarious kinds of work that thrive in the gig economy. Paying particular attention to political philosophy and theories of justice, the contributions focus on four themes: I. Freedom, dignity, and human rights; II. Distributive justice and exploitation; III. Workplace democracy and self-determination; IV Social inclusion.
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Délano Alonso, Alexandra. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190688578.003.0001.

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This chapter provides a conceptual framework to understand the role of origin countries in offering programs focused on social assistance for their migrant populations in other countries. It examines the literature on diaspora policies and immigrant integration, identifying some of the gaps as well as opportunities to put these concepts and policies in conversation considering migrants’ access to social rights. It proposes that a transnational approach to issues of integration offers new ways to understand the processes through which it takes place—particularly considering precarious status migrants—as well as the various actors that participate, including origin-country governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), civil society on both sides of the border, and government institutions in the destination country. This chapter also discusses a transnational methodology for the study of diaspora institutions, specifically consulates.
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Hajj, Nadya. Protection Amid Chaos. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231180627.001.0001.

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The right to own property is something we generally take for granted. For refugees living in camps, in some cases for as long as generations, the link between citizenship and property ownership becomes strained. How do refugees protect these assets and preserve communal ties? How do they maintain a sense of identity and belonging within chaotic settings? Protection Amid Chaos follows people as they develop binding claims on assets and resources in challenging political and economic spaces. Focusing on Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan, it shows how the first to arrive developed flexible though legitimate property rights claims based on legal knowledge retained from their homeland, subsequently adapted to the restrictions of refugee life. As camps increased in complexity, refugees merged their informal institutions with the formal rules of political outsiders, devising a broader, stronger system for protecting their assets and culture from predation and state incorporation. For this book, Nadya Hajj conducted interviews with two hundred refugees. She consults memoirs, legal documents, and findings in the United Nations Relief Works Agency archives. Her work reveals the strategies Palestinian refugees have used to navigate their precarious conditions while under continuous assault and situates their struggle within the larger context of communities living in transitional spaces.
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Rizzo, Matteo. The Politics of Labour 2. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794240.003.0005.

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Chapter 5 investigates the factors and circumstances that allowed the workers to switch from managing the effects of precarious employment to challenging its causes, first through the founding of an association of daladala workers, and then through a partnership with the Tanzanian transport trade union. Drawing on correspondence between the Transport Union and the workers’ association, and on interviews with the leaders of the workers’ association, of the trade union, and with transport workers themselves, the chapter explores the strategy chosen by workers to make demands for rights at work on employers and the state. The analysis stresses the significance of this case study by engaging with the wider literature on globalization and its impact on labour possibilities, and more specifically on how to organize the unorganized in the informal economy and the goals which workers’ political mobilization can (or cannot) achieve in increasingly liberalized and informalized economies.
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Délano Alonso, Alexandra. Consular Protection and Solidarity across Borders. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190688578.003.0004.

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This chapter demonstrates how Latin American governments with large populations of migrants with precarious legal status in the United States are working together to promote policies focusing on their well-being and integration. It identifies the context in which these processes of policy diffusion and collaboration have taken place as well as their limitations. Notwithstanding the differences in capacities and motivations based on the domestic political and economic contexts, there is a convergence of practices and policies of diaspora engagement among Latin American countries driven by the common challenges faced by their migrant populations in the United States and by the Latino population more generally. These policies, framed as an issue of rights protection and the promotion of migrants’ well-being, are presented as a form of regional solidarity and unity, and are also mobilized by the Mexican government as a political instrument serving its foreign policy goals.
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Bernal, Angélica Maria. Another Birth of Freedom. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190494223.003.0008.

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This chapter examines a previously unexplored perspective on the US civil rights refounding: Méndez v. Westminster School District et al. (1947), a case reflecting the political and legal struggles of Mexican American parents in 1940s Orange County to challenge their children’s segregation from California’s public schools. Against familiar interpretations that excluded groups advance social-justice claims before the broader society as appeals to the promises of the Founding or Founders, this chapter argues that even when situated as appeals within the law, foundational challenges are better understood as underauthorized ones: actions that self-authorize not on the basis of an order that once was, but on the basis of a citizen-subject position and political order that are at once precarious and yet to come. This type of constitutional politics, the chapter argues, challenges understandings of democratic self-constitution predicated on a unified “We, the People” by bringing to light the constituent power of the excluded.
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Délano Alonso, Alexandra. From Here and There. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190688578.001.0001.

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Assistance for immigrants to learn English, receive health services, open a bank account, apply for naturalization, or get a work certification is generally considered the responsibility of the government and society of the country where they reside, as part of the process of supporting their integration and ultimately their formal acquisition of citizenship. But in the past two decades, Mexico and other countries of origin of Latin American migrants in the United States have increasingly taken part in these activities through their consular representations, with the stated goal of addressing the needs and protecting the rights of precarious status migrants. These diaspora policies—focused on the provision of social services for emigrants in their country of destination as a way to support their well-being and access to opportunities to participate as community members in the places where they live—are one of the clearest manifestations of the reconceptualization of the boundaries of citizenship and the rights and obligations that come with it. These cases reveal how origin countries can play an important role in providing resources to support migrants’ access to social rights in the country of destination, an area of migration governance that is rarely discussed as a space for collaboration between governments, civil society, migrants, and international institutions. At the same time, the expansion of rights across borders offers an opportunity to re-examine questions of state accountability and responsibility regarding the causes of emigration as well as the protection of rights for returning migrants.
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Etherington, David. Austerity, Welfare and Work. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447350088.001.0001.

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The book provides fresh perspectives on the link between welfare policy and employment relations. A central argument of the book is that austerity in the work first policies (including Universal Credit) play a key role in attacking both social and employment rights. The book analyses the role and strategies of trade unions and civil society organisations in contesting the reform agenda demonstrating the importance of union organisation and bargaining for welfare policies. The geographies of austerity play a central role in the politics of welfare, with the ‘left behind’ regions, bearing the brunt of public expenditure cuts. In the case studies of Greater Manchester, as England’s flagship Devolution initiative, and the Sheffield Needs a Pay Rise Campaign the book explores the role of trade unions and civil society organising against welfare reform and precarious work. The final two chapters are devoted to exploring alternatives including lessons which can be drawn from Denmark’s, more redistributive welfare and industrial relations system and the importance of challenging the austerity narrative. The author calls for a greater role for economic and welfare democracy involving strengthening employment rights through coordinated collective bargaining and investing in public services and local government as a basis of building a democratic and accountable labour market.
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Ahsan, Sonia. When Muslims Become Feminists. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520294134.003.0012.

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The robust history of women’s rights in Afghanistan is rarely analyzed in academic accounts of Muslim feminism. In this chapter, I trace the positioning of a particular Khana-yi aman in Kabul within the broader institutional framework of feminism and Islam in Afghanistan. The Khana-yi aman, often translated as a “shelter” or “home of peace”, is a form of safe-house in Afghanistan instituted to host women undergoing criminal trials for sexual transgressions or moral misconducts. The ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 2010-2012 at the Kabul Khana-yi aman illustrates the precarious life histories of the women who administer and inhabit the Khana-yi aman, and how unfamiliar and dangerous forms of sexual expressions may be rendered culturally and Islamically intelligible through everyday social maneuvers. The Khana-yi aman is forcing the Afghan state to account for its failures and confront its peripheries, and in doing so it dislocates the question of how to maintain order in orderless societies, to an emphasis on failure, disintegration, and anarchy as constitutive of any state project.
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Yamin, Alicia Ely, and Andrés Constantin. The Evolution of Applying Human Rights Frameworks to Health. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190672676.003.0003.

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This chapter explores the evolution and struggles of the “health and human rights movement,” focusing particularly on relevant developments in health and international law that enabled greater attention to the right to health. It discusses the evolution of human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) to health, which extended these legal concepts into the domains of development and social policy. Over twenty years after it began to take shape, the “health and human rights” field is not one discipline but many. This cluster of related work now faces the new challenges of a precariously constructed international normative scaffolding, the rising complexities of moving from constitutional norms to effective enjoyment in practice at the national level, and the potential danger of HRBAs being reduced to technocratic formulas and emptied of their subversive potential.
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Casanova, Erynn Masi de, and Maximina Salazar. Dust and Dignity. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501739453.001.0001.

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What makes domestic work a bad job, even after efforts to formalize and improve working conditions? This book examines three reasons for persistent exploitation. First, the tasks of social reproduction are devalued. Second, informal work arrangements escape regulation. And third, unequal class relations are built into this type of employment. The book provides both theoretical discussions about domestic work and concrete ideas for improving women's lives. Drawing on workers' stories of lucha, trabajo, and sacrificio—struggle, work, and sacrifice—the book offers a new take on an old occupation. From the intimate experience of being a body out of place in an employer's home, to the common work histories of Ecuadorian women in different cities, to the possibilities for radical collective action at the national level, the book shows how and why women do this stigmatized and precarious work and how they resist exploitation in the search for dignified employment. From these searing stories of workers' lives, the book identifies patterns in domestic workers' experiences that will be helpful in understanding the situation of workers elsewhere and offers possible solutions for promoting and ensuring workers' rights that have relevance far beyond Ecuador.
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Eccarius-Kelly, Vera. The Militant Kurds. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400685569.

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This extensive examination of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, Iraq, Germany, and the EU focuses on the history and development of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and its impact on transnational security, human rights, and democratization. The Militant Kurds: A Dual Strategy for Freedom explores the complexity of the 30-year guerrilla war of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) against the Turkish Republic, identifying longstanding obstacles to peace and probing the new dynamics that may lead to an end to the conflict. In doing so, the book provides fascinating insights into Turkey's national ethos, its dominant military culture, and civil society's struggle for increased democratization. The Militant Kurds offers an extensive analysis of the precarious position of the Kurdish minority, beginning with the establishment of the modern Turkish republic in 1923. Divided into five sections examining current political realities in Turkey, the book investigates the role of Islam and ethnicity, analyzes the rise of the PKK, discusses Turkish military culture, and explains the international dimensions of the Kurdish conflict. Comparative historical, political, and socioeconomic examples contextualize the long struggle for Kurdish self-determination. Each chapter offers an analysis of the underlying dynamics of the conflict and provides up-to-date explanations.
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Liddy, Christian D. Contesting the City. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198705208.001.0001.

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The political narrative of late medieval English towns is often reduced to the story of the gradual intensification of oligarchy, in which power was exercised and projected by an ever smaller ruling group over an increasingly subservient urban population. This book takes its inspiration not from English historiography, but from a more dynamic continental scholarship on towns in the southern Low Countries, Germany, and France. Its premise is that scholarly debate about urban oligarchy has obscured contemporary debate about urban citizenship. It identifies from the records of English towns a tradition of urban citizenship, which did not draw upon the intellectual legacy of classical models of the ‘citizen’. This was a vernacular citizenship, which was not peculiar to England, but which was present elsewhere in late medieval Europe. It was a citizenship that was defined and created through action. There were multiple, and divergent, ideas about citizenship, which encouraged townspeople to make demands, to assert rights, and to resist authority. This book exploits the rich archival sources of the five major towns in England—Bristol, Coventry, London, Norwich, and York—in order to present a new picture of town government and urban politics over three centuries. The power of urban governors was much more precarious than historians have imagined. Urban oligarchy could never prevail—whether ideologically or in practice—when there was never a single, fixed meaning of the citizen.
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Pugh, Jeffrey D. The Invisibility Bargain. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197538692.001.0001.

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In an era of mass migration and restrictive responses, this book seeks to understand how migrants negotiate their place in the receiving society and adapt innovative strategies to integrate, participate, and access protection. Their acceptance is often contingent on the expectation that they contribute economically to the host country while remaining politically and socially invisible. These unwritten expectations, which this book calls the “invisibility bargain,” produce a precarious status in which migrants’ visible differences or overt political demands on the state may be met with a hostile backlash from the host society. In this context, governance networks of state and nonstate actors form an institutional web that can provide access to rights, resources, and protection for migrants through informal channels that avoid a negative backlash against visible political activism. This book examines Ecuador, the largest recipient of refugees in Latin America, asking how it has achieved migrant human security gains despite weak state presence in peripheral areas. The key finding is that localities with more dense networks composed of more diverse actors tend to produce greater human security for migrants and their neighbors. The argument has implications beyond Ecuador for migrant-receiving countries around the world. The book challenges the conventional understanding of migration and security, providing a fresh approach to the negotiation of authority between state and society. Its nuanced account of informal pathways to human security dismantles the false dichotomy between international and national politics, and it exposes the micropolitics of institutional innovation.
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Greve, Bent. Welfare, Populism and Welfare Chauvinism. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447350439.001.0001.

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In the wake of the financial crisis, and with increasing numbers of people in precarious and low paid jobs, there has been a surprising surge of support for populist right-wing political parties who often promote an anti-welfare message. Tougher approaches and welfare chauvinism is on the agenda in many countries, with policies which reduce the welfare state for those seen as undeserving and changes often disproportionally benefit the rich. Why are voters seemingly not concerned about growing inequality? Using a mixed methods approach and newly released data, this book aims to answer this question and to show possible ways forward for welfare states.
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Eva Maich, Katherine, Jamie K. McCallum, and Ari Grant-Sasson. Time’s Up! Shorter Hours, Public Policy, and Time Flexibility as an Antidote to Youth Unemployment. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190685898.003.0011.

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This chapter explores the relationship between hours of work and unemployment. When it comes to time spent working in the United States at present, two problems immediately come to light. First, an asymmetrical distribution of working time persists, with some people overworked and others underemployed. Second, hours are increasingly unstable; precarious on-call work scheduling and gig economy–style employment relationships are the canaries in the coal mine of a labor market that produces fewer and fewer stable jobs. It is possible that some kind of shorter hours movement, especially one that places an emphasis on young workers, has the potential to address these problems. Some policies and processes are already in place to transition into a shorter hours economy right now even if those possibilities are mediated by an anti-worker political administration.
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Sommer, Bernd. Prekarisierung und Ressentiments: Soziale Unsicherheit und Rechtsextreme Einstellungen in Deutschland. VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften GmbH, 2010.

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