The making and unmaking of precarious, ideal subjects–migration brokerage in the Global South

P Deshingkar - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
condition where some people have more precarious lives than others and these are often
the same groups of people who experience precarity at the workplace through unequal …

Chutes-and-ladders: The migration industry, conditionality, and the production of precarity among migrant domestic workers in Singapore

K Wee, C Goh, BSA Yeoh - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In order to understand how precarity is created for and experienced by labour migrants, we
apply the concept of conditionality–which proposes that a migrant worker's experience of …

[PDF][PDF] Mediated migration: A literature review of migration intermediaries

K Jones, H Sha - 2020 - pureportal.coventry.ac.uk
Migration is mediated by a range of intermediaries, now more than ever (Xiang and
Lindquist, 2014: 124). While there is nothing new about them, scholars generally agree that …

Geographies of migration I: Platform migration

FL Collins - Progress in Human Geography, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This first report on research about the geographies of migration examines the sociotechnical
platforms that enable migration and shape its outcomes. I begin by examining two areas of …

Gender and forced labour: Understanding the links in global cocoa supply chains

G LeBaron, E Gore - The journal of development studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates the gendered patterns and dynamics of labour exploitation and
forced labour in the cocoa supply chain. The empirical basis of our analysis is an original …

An organizational approach to the Philippine migration industry: recruiting, matching and tailoring migrant domestic workers

J Debonneville - Comparative Migration Studies, 2021 - Springer
This article analyses how organizations shape migration trajectories. More specifically, by
looking at the Philippine migration industry, this ethnographic research highlights how …

Producing ideal Bangladeshi migrants for precarious construction work in Qatar

P Deshingkar, CR Abrar, MT Sultana… - Journal of Ethnic and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The paper analyses the mediation of Bangladeshi construction worker migration to the Gulf
and how multiple and unpredictable risks and opportunities are co-created by brokers …

Digital migration

K Leurs - 2023 - torrossa.com
Digital migration studies is research on migration in relation to digital technologies. As we1
explore in this book, research addresses the digitization of borders and the datafication of …

Labour migration brokerage and Dalit politics in Andhra Pradesh: A Dalit fabric of labour circulation

D Picherit - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Why and how do labour migrant brokers engage with henchmen of bosses, small-time
criminals and violent politicians? What significance do labour brokers' political relations …

[PDF][PDF] Migration infrastructures: How do people migrate

F Düvell, C Preiss - … to migration studies: An interactive guide to …, 2022 - library.oapen.org
Migration research primarily studies who migrates and the processes after their arrival. Less
attention is paid to the processes between departure and arrival and the infrastructures used …