Race Gender and Contemporary International Labor Migration Regimes

Migrant workers around the world are subject to exploitative labor practices that give employers extraordinary bargaining power. This book brings together researchers, practitioners, and advocates who explore the many ways that contracted migrant workers are rendered vulnerable in the workplace. In this book, the term ’21st-century coolie’ is deployed as a heuristic device that foregrounds the deeply unequal structures shaping the transnational flows of short-term, migrant workers. The term ‘coolie’ harkens back to the labor arrangements of earlier centuries that involved conscripted labor, indentured servitude, and contract labor across national borders. Like those of past centuries, today’s ‘coolies’ are subject to legal constraints inside and outside the employment relationship that force them into subjugated positions within the workplace. Race, Gender and Contemporary International Labor Migration Regimes 1st Edition is written by Leticia Saucedo, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBNs for Race, Gender and Contemporary International Labor Migration Regimes are 9781789902006, 1789902002 and the print ISBNs are 9781789901993, 1789901995.