Books: 'Temporary migrants'

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Dustmann, Christian. Temporary migration, human capital, and language fluency of migrants. London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 1996.

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Bauer, Thomas. The savings behavior of temporary and permanent migrants in Germany. Bonn, Germany: IZA, 2005.

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Known faces, unknown life: Voices of temporary migrants in West Bengal. Kolkata: Gangchil, 2010.

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Xiao, Xinhuang. Ethnic resources or capitalist logic?: Taiwanese investment and Chinese temporary migrants in Vietnam. Taipei: Program for Southeast Asian Area Studies, 2001.

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Lenard, Patti Tamara, and Christine Straehle. Legislated inequality: Temporary labour migration in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012.

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W, Simkins C. E., ed. Temporary necessities: The socio-economic impact of cross-border migrants in Gauteng and North West - a sectoral study. Johannesburg: Centre for Policy Studies, 1998.

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Migrant farm workers: The temporary people. New York: Franklin Watts, 1994.

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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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Migración temporal y discurso en el sur de Guanajuato, México. Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid (España): Plaza y Valdés Editores, 2014.

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Muniandy, Parthiban. Politics of the temporary: An ethnography of migrant life in urban Malaysia. Petaling Jaya, Selangor: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2015.

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Husain, Majid. Seasonal migration of Kashmiri labour: A spatio-temporal analysis. New Delhi, India: Rima Pub. House, 1988.

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Myron, Weiner, and Hanami Tadashi, eds. Temporary workers or future citizens?: Japanese and U.S. migration policies. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

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Siddiqui, Tasneem. Temporary labour migration of women: Case studies of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. [Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic]: United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), International Organization for Migration (IOM), 2000.

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Vignolo, Stella Maris Nadal. Las condiciones de trabajo en zonas rurales: El trabajador de temporada en el Chaco : la cosecha de algodón. [Resistencia]: Provincia del Chaco, Ministerio de Gobierno, Justicia y Educación, 1988.

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Rodríguez, Isaac Sandoval. El trabajo agricola de temporada: Régimen jurídico-social de los zafreros de la caña de azúcar y los cosechadores de algodón. Santa Cruz de la Sierra: Dirección Universitaria de Investigación, 1994.

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Zwygart, Estelle Mathis. L'application des conventions collectives de travail aux contrats de travail temporaire: Étude de l'Article 20 LSE. Bâle: Helbing Lichtenhahn, 2012.

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Agriculture, United States Congress House Committee on. Temporary guest worker proposals in the agriculture sector: Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, January 28, 2004. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2004.

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R, Julia Medel. La salud ignorada: Temporeras de la fruticultura. [Santiago, Chile]: Ediciones CEM, 1994.

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(2007), United States Congress House Committee on Education and Labor. Protecting U.S. and guest workers: The recruitment and employment of temporary foreign labor : hearing before the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, June 7, 2007. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2007.

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Protecting U.S. and guest workers: The recruitment and employment of temporary foreign labor : hearing before the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, June 7, 2007. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2007.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor (2007). Protecting U.S. and guest workers: The recruitment and employment of temporary foreign labor : hearing before the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, June 7, 2007. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2007.

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Pietsch, Juliet. Temporary Migrants from Southeast Asia in Australia: Lost Opportunities. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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Pietsch, Juliet. Temporary Migrants from Southeast Asia in Australia: Lost Opportunities. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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Pietsch, Juliet. Temporary Migrants from Southeast Asia in Australia: Lost Opportunities. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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Honorati, Maddalena, Soonhwa Yi, and Thelma Choi. Assessing the Vulnerability of Armenian Temporary Labor Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic. World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/34359.

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Straehle, Christine, and Patti Tamara Lenard. Legislated Inequality: Temporary Labour Migration in Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012.

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Gunawardana, Samanthi J. Gendered State Assemblages and Temporary Labor Migration. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190644031.003.0006.

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This chapter draws on “assemblage thinking” to understand how the gendered state relates in seemingly contradictory ways to its citizens going overseas as temporary labor migrants. Using Sri Lanka as an illustrative case, the chapter presents the argument that there are three distinct but interrelated gendered state assemblages: regulatory gendered state assemblages, protective gendered state assemblages, and brokerage gendered state assemblages. Thus, migration flows are sustained while acknowledging and attempting to address gendered harm. The particular configuration of power relations within the constitutive elements of the assemblage helps to produce the gendered state, which, in turn, produces and reproduces gender.

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From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions: Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama. University of Alabama Press, 2020.

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Montero, Carla Guerrón. From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions: Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama. University of Alabama Press, 2020.

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China's provision of temporary visas to North Koreans: Reconsidering the protection of migrants in the 21st century. [S.l: s.n., 2005.

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China's provision of temporary visas to North Koreans: Reconsidering the protection of migrants in the 21st century. 2005.

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Hallett, Miranda Cady. Rooted/Uprooted. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037665.003.0007.

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This chapter asks what happens when transnational migrant families own homes, plant trees, and establish businesses in small-town America but still lack a viable path to legal residency. Based on extensive fieldwork in small, rural Arkansas communities with Salvadoran transnational migrants, the author explores the contradictory dynamics between a growing identification with local geographies and continuing legal exclusion. Most Salvadoran migrants are caught between categories of national belonging; classified as either “illegal” or “temporary,” they lack rights to political participation either in the United States or in El Salvador. These legal exclusions create a mobile space of exception around the body of the migrant, which facilitate the exploitation of migrants' labor. Legal exclusion also contributes to social exclusion through the contradictory production of both invisibility and hypervisibility. Despite this, transnational migrants continue to put down roots in their new places of settlement.

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Vosko, Leah F. Disrupting Deportability. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501742132.001.0001.

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This book highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant workers in Canada seeking to exercise their labor rights. It explores the effects of deportability on Mexican nationals participating in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP). The book follows the decade-long legal and political struggle of a group of Mexican SAWP migrants in British Columbia to establish and maintain meaningful collective representation. The case study reveals how modalities of deportability—such as termination without cause, blacklisting, and attrition—destabilize legally authorized temporary migrant agricultural workers. Through this detailed exposé, the book concludes that despite the formal commitments to human, social, and civil rights to which migration management ostensibly aspires, the design and administration of this “model” temporary migrant work program produces conditions of deportability, making the threat possibility of removal ever-present.

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Levey, Geoffrey Brahm. Multiculturalism on the Move: An Australian Perspective. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428231.003.0008.

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This chapter assesses the extent to which temporary migrants are ill-served by Australian multiculturalism and the ramifications of temporary migration for Australia’s successful multicultural society. To this end, it pursues three questions: 1) Is multicultural policy accessible to temporary residents even if it is not intended for them?; 2) How are the difficulties temporary residents face linked to multicultural policy?; and 3) What is the best way forward for addressing the situation and increasing numbers of temporary residents? The chapter reaches several conclusions. Multicultural policy is much more accessible and beneficial to temporary migrants than is often claimed. An approach that valorizes citizenship and which provides clear and reasonable pathways to permanent and temporary migrants for becoming citizens is still the most effective model available. Multicultural policy should be further developed to meet the circumstances of the growing number of temporary entrants in Australia; however, this effort is currently hampered by some incongruities in government policy.

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Ottonelli, Valeria, and Tiziana Torresi. The Right Not to Stay. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192866776.001.0001.

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Abstract A central question in the debate on justice in immigration is whether immigrants have a right to stay; this book argues that liberal-democratic receiving states should also grant migrants a right not to stay. This claim runs against the presumption that migrants always desire to move on a permanent basis and intend to forge a completely new life in the country of destination. From this perspective, temporary migration is always a second-best option for migrants, engendered by the closed and often punitive migration policies of receiving countries. This book’s innovative focus on the right not to stay is prompted instead by the realization that increasing numbers of migrants throughout the world conceive and plan their migratory experience as circumscribed in time and instrumental to goals and projects that they will pursue once back in their country of origin. These temporary migration projects are worthy of being accommodated by the receiving states as much as the migratory plans of those who resolve or aim to immigrate on a permanent basis. Accommodating them entails setting up the appropriate welfare measures and programmes in the host country and, through bi-lateral agreements, in the country of return. This is especially important in view of the fact that very often the migrants who engage in temporary migration projects find themselves in a condition of high vulnerability and risk. The ‘right not to stay’ advocated in this book is a positive and substantive right to see one’s project of temporary migration-and-return protected and accommodated by institutions.

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Bouzas, Antia Mato, and Lorenzo Casini, eds. Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space: Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/9781800733503.

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Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region. The contributions underscore the aspirational character of the Gulf as a place where migrant recognition can be attained while also reflecting on practices of exclusion. The book is the result of an interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars and includes an original contribution by the acclaimed author of the novel Temporary People, Deepak Unnikrishnan.

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Banting, Keith, and Edward Koning. Just Visiting? The Weakening of Social Protection in a Mobile World. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428231.003.0006.

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Recent scholarship has become increasingly attentive to the way different welfare states include or exclude newcomers. Much of this literature has focused on the access to benefits granted to immigrants with a permanent status. While this emphasis is understandable, it ignores the growing ranks of individuals who do not settle permanently, either because they are only given temporary status or because they choose to move on. This paper helps to fill this gap by comparing four countries that are very different in the way they treat temporary migrants: Sweden, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. We find that migrants on a temporary permit are among the most weakly protected in each of these countries, but that the exclusion is more severe in countries where politicians face considerable political pressure to appear tough on immigration and where there are few institutional protections to protect temporary residents from such pressures. These findings highlight both the fragility of social protection in a world of mobility and the importance of firmly entrenched protections of equal treatment.

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Bock, Jozefien De. Settlers or Movers? The Temporality of Past Migrations, Political Inaction and its Consequences, 1945–1985. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428231.003.0004.

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Historically, those societies that have the longest tradition in multicultural policies are settler societies. The question of how to deal with temporary migrants has only recently aroused their interest. In Europe, temporary migration programmes have a much longer history. In the period after WWII, a wide range of legal frameworks were set up to import temporary workers, who came to be known as guest workers. In the end, many of these ‘guests’ settled in Europe permanently. Their presence lay at the basis of European multicultural policies. However, when these policies were drafted, the former mobility of guest workers had been forgotten. This chapter will focus on this mobility of initially temporary workers, comparing the period of economic growth 1945-1974 with the years after the 1974 economic crisis. Further, it will look at the kind of policies that were developed towards guest workers in the era before multiculturalism. This way, it shows how their consideration as temporary residents had far-reaching consequences for the immigrants, their descendants and the receiving societies involved. The chapter will finish by suggesting a number of lessons from the past. If the mobility-gap between guest workers and present-day migrants is not as big as generally assumed, then the consequences of previous neglect should serve as a warning for future policy making.

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de Vries, Bouke, ed. Multiculturalism and Temporary Migrant Workers. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428231.003.0013.

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Normative discussions of temporary labour migration have focused mostly on what social and political rights, if any, temporary migrant workers should have. This chapter focuses on a different set of potential entitlements: cultural rights. The question I am interested in is whether the cultural needs and preferences of temporary migrant workers should be accommodated or even supported by receiving states (note that ‘culture’ is construed broadly here so as to include religious needs and preferences). Specifically, I ask when, if ever, temporary migrant workers should have access to three kinds of cultural rights from a liberal perspective: (i) cultural exemptions from laws and working regulations; (ii) cultural subsidies; and (iii) cultural recognition. Asking this question is important not just to fill a lacuna in the literature on multiculturalism (most of which is concerned with the cultural entitlements of citizens), but also from a practical point of view, as many countries harbour large numbers of temporary migrant workers.

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Song, Sarah. Discretionary Admissions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190909222.003.0010.

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Chapter 9 explores discretionary admissions, cases in which the decision to admit prospective migrants is not morally required because their basic interests are not threatened. In such cases, what kinds of reasons should inform public deliberation about whom to exclude and include? The chapter begins by considering temporary admissions programs, asking whether they are permissible or whether all migrants must be admitted on a permanent basis. It then assesses different criteria for excluding and selecting migrants for admission. The criteria of exclusion discussed include ones based on race and ethnicity, national security concerns, public health issues, and economic impacts. The criteria of admission considered include family ties, cultural affinity, protection of vulnerable cultural groups, and economic skills.

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Koser, Khalid. 8. The future of international migration. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198753773.003.0008.

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The evidence on the positive economic impact of migration has become stronger; yet anti-immigration politics and sentiments have increased. ‘The future of international migration’ explores the coming challenges for migrants, citizens, and policymakers in light of the current trends in migration patterns and processes as well as policies. It considers the changes in Asian migration; the growing issue of increased internal migration; the impact of climate change on migration; temporary migration which combats brain drain and fills specific short-term gaps in employment; the shifting policies on irregular migration from control to management; the reform of the international refugee regime; and the challenges of integration and the need for respect of migrants.

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Bauböck, Rainer. Democratic Representation in Mobile Societies. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428231.003.0014.

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Multiculturalism and transnationalism have transformed the traditional assimilationist and statist perspectives of immigrant integration studies. Yet these progressive approaches have not fully addressed the new challenges raised by the ‘mobility turn’. In highly mobile societies, the distinction between cultural majority and minorities, which is the starting point for multiculturalism, and the distinction between migrants, receiving and destination societies, which is still maintained in a transnational perspective, become increasingly blurred. Once these categories can no longer be distinguished, the normative case for differentiated multicultural and transnational citizenship becomes weaker too. The second part of the paper applies this line of thought to democratic representation issues. It identifies three challenges of mobility: representing temporary migrants; bridging cleavages between mobile and sedentary populations; and organizing democratic representation in hypermobile societies with sedentary minorities, each of which assume a different degree of societal transformation through mobility. The chapter concludes that it would be wrong to replace the methodological nationalism and statism that has prevailed in the multicultural citizenship literature with an equally biased ‘methodological migrantism’ that privileges a mobility perspective over that of territorially structured democracy. We should instead try to find institutional solutions which combine both perspectives and, where this is impossible, at least try to switch back and forth between them.

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Song, Sarah. The Rights of Noncitizens in the Territory. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190909222.003.0011.

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Chapter 10 considers what is owed to noncitizens already present in the territory of democratic countries. It focuses on three groups of noncitizens: those admitted on a temporary basis, those who have been granted permanent residence, and those who have overstayed their temporary visas or entered the territory without authorization. What legal rights are these different groups of noncitizens morally entitled to? How should their claims be weighed against the right of states to control immigration? The chapter argues that the longer one lives in the territory, the stronger one’s moral claim to a more extensive set of rights, including the right to remain. The time spent living in a place serves as a proxy for the social ties migrants have developed (social membership principle) and for their contributions to collective life (fair-play principle).

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Song, Sarah. Immigration and Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190909222.001.0001.

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Immigration and Democracy develops an intermediate ethical position on immigration between closed borders and open borders. It argues that states have the right to control borders, but this right is qualified by an obligation to assist those outside their borders. In democratic societies, the right of immigration control must also be exercised in ways that are consistent with democratic values. Part I explores the normative grounds of the modern state’s power over immigration found in US immigration law and in political theory. It argues for a qualified, not absolute, right of states to control immigration based on a particular interpretation of the value of collective self-determination. Part II considers the case for open borders. One argument for open borders rests on the demands of global distributive justice; another argument emphasizes the value of freedom of movement as a fundamental human right. The book argues that both arguments fall short of justifying open borders. Part III turns to consider the substance of immigration policy for democratic societies. What kind of immigration policies should democratic societies adopt? What is required is not closed borders or open borders but controlled borders and open doors. Open to whom? The interests of prospective migrants must be weighed against the interests of the political community. Specific chapters are devoted to refugees and other necessitous migrants, family-based immigration, temporary worker programs, discretionary admissions, and what is owed to noncitizen residents, including unauthorized migrants living in the territory of democratic states.

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DeLucia, JoEllen, and Juliet Shields, eds. Migration and Modernities. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474440349.001.0001.

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Migration and Modernities recovers a comparative literary history of migration by bringing together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the uneven emergence of modernity. The collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrating how mobility unsettles the geographic boundaries, temporal periodization, and racial categories we often use to organize literary and historical study. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. In exploring these spaces, Migration and Modernities also investigates the origins of current debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship. Its chapters traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.

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From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia. Cornell University Press, 2019.

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Ford, Michele. From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia. Cornell University Press, 2019.

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Maestri, Gaja. Temporary Camps, Enduring Segregation: The Contentious Politics of Roma and Migrant Housing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

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Ness, Immanuel. Temporary Labor Migration and U.S. and Foreign-Born Worker Resistance. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036279.003.0005.

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This chapter examines how skilled and semi-skilled guest worker programs contribute to the displacement of workers throughout the U.S. economy. In the future, as migrant labor programs are institutionalized through the World Trade Organization and are viewed as the latest formula for economic development, it is likely that this new commodification of labor will spread into a growing number of labor market sectors, including manufacturing and transportation. At the same time the chapter reveals that while corporate human resource executives view migrant laborers as docile and complacent, a growing number are resorting to collective action in the form of micro organizing, where small groups organize to address the specific problems they face.

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Koslowski, Rey. Shifts in Selective Migration Policy Models. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815273.003.0006.

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Selective migration policies can be grouped into three ideal-typical models: the Canadian ‘human capital’ model based on state selection of permanent immigrants using a points system; the Australian ‘neo-corporatist’ model based on state selection using a points system with extensive business and labour participation; and the market-oriented, demand-driven model based primarily on employer selection of migrants, as practised by the US. This chapter compares the selective migration polices of the three countries in terms of policy outcomes measured by varying metrics, examines policy implementation that diverges from the models, and explores a trend in all three countries towards recruiting foreign students to become immigrants. It finds that Canadian and Australian practices are shifting towards the US demand-driven model as employers rather than government officials are selecting increasing percentages of permanent immigrants from pools of temporary foreign workers and foreign students already in Canada and Australia rather than from abroad.

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