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The role of migration mediation in the global circulation of labour has been receiving
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In 2008, Sweden changed its labour-migration policy to facilitate more labour migration from
countries outside the EU. Most state ambitions to shape labour migration, including practices …

I den här boken ger en rad forskare från olika discipliner–internationell migration och etniska
relationer, juridik, kulturgeografi, nationalekonomi, sociologi och statsvetenskap–en …

Since the introduction of a new liberal labour immigration policy in 2008, several cases of
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During the 2011 Canadian election campaign, the Conservative Party unleashed attack ads
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The global network economy involves intensive interactions and flows between places. In
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This ethnography of contemporary trade-skilled labour migrants from China to Australia
proposes migration literacy and national class frames in motion as new lenses to theorise …