Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance

Professor Carl-Ulrik Schierup is Director of the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), ISV, Linköping University, Sweden. He has since 1992 acted as the Director of several major research programmes and research centres on migration and ethnic relations in Scandinavia. He has published broadly on issues of migration and labour, ethnic relations, racism, multiculturalism and nationalism.Professor Ronaldo Munck is Head of Civic Engagement at Dublin City University and Visiting Professor in Development Studies at the University of Liverpool and St. Mary's University, Nova Scotia. He has written widely on labour issues, social exclusion and social movement from a critical engagement and postcolonial perspective.Anders Neergaard is Associate Professor at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), ISV, Linköping University, Sweden. His research spans political sociology, third world studies, labour market studies and ethnic and migration studies, focussing on trade unions, labour market segmentation and cultural racism.; Branka Likic-Brboric is Associate Professor at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society, ISV, Linköping University, Sweden. Her research falls into following interconnected areas: globalisation, ethnic divisions and the political economy of post-socialist transformations; global governance, migrants' rights and 'decent work'; EU enlargement, informal economy, new migration landscapes and the Europeans social model.

• 1. Introduction: Migration, Precarity and Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour ; 2. Migration and Labor under Neoliberal Globalization: Key issues and challenges ; 3. Migration, Precarious Work and Rights: Historical and Current Perspectives ; 4. Precarious Work, Immigration and Governance ; 5. From Denizens to Citizens: Forging a Precariat Charter ; 6. Globalisation, Trade Unions and Labour Migration: A Transformationalist Approach ; 7. Trade Unions and Labour Migration: a case for new organisational approaches ; 8. Migration, Racialisation and Forms of Unfree Labour: The Dilemma of Trade Union Solidarity ; 9. Immigrant Workers and the Labor Movement in the USA ; 10. Irregular Migrant Labour, Trade Unions and Civil Society Organisations in Turkey ; 11. A Toxic Embrace: Migration, Labour and the Rainbow Nation's Neoliberal Pact ; 12. Labour Rights as Human Rights? Trajectories in the Global Governance of Migration ; 13. False Promises and Movements of Contestation in the Global Garment Industry ; 14. Global Migration Governance, Social Movements and the Difficulties of Promoting Migrant Rights ; 15. Labour, Migration and Regional Integration: A North/South Comparative Approach

Useful for both students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, it provides opportunities to reflect on the importance of migrant workers in the current economic system, while at the same time emphasising their precariousness and vulnerability.