Global Labour and the Migrant Premium
This book provides the first systematic account of the premium costs that migrants pay to live and work abroad.
Reducing the costs of international labour migration, specifically worker-paid costs for low-skilled employment, has become an important item on the global agenda over the last years and is particularly pertinent for the UNs Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Recruitment costs alone amount in most migration corridors to anywhere between one and ten months of foreign earnings and many migrants may well lose between one and two years of foreign earnings, if all costs are considered. This book is intended as a primer for evidence-based policy for reducing the costs of international labour mobility. The contributors include academics from law, economics and politics, but also authors from international organizations and non-governmental organizations, as well as the voices of migrants. The hope of the editors is that this small collection sets the basis for evidence-based policies that seek to reduce the costs of international migration.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of migration, globalization, law, sociology and international relations, as well as practitioners and policy makers.
Tugba Basaran is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, University of Cambridge, UK, and visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. Her publications include Security, Law and Borders: At the Limits of Liberties (Routledge, 2011) and International Political Sociology: Transversal Lines, co-edited with Didier Bigo, Emmanuel P. Guittet and R. B. J. Walker (Routledge, 2016).
Elspeth Guild is a Jean Monnet Professor ad personam in law at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Radboud University, Netherlands. She regularly advises EU institutions on migration and asylum-related matters and has written studies for the European Parliament on the European dimension of the refugee crisis in 2016. Her publications include Security and Migration in the 21st Century (2009) and The Human Rights of Migrants in the 21st Century, co-edited with Stefanie Grant and Kees Groenendijk (Routledge, 2017).
Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security
Series editors: Didier Bigo, Elspeth Guild, R. B. J. Walker and Tugba Basaran
This book series will establish connections between critical security studies and International Relations, surveillance studies, criminology, law and human rights, political sociology and political theory. To analyse the boundaries of the concepts of liberty and security, the practices which are enacted in their name (often the same practices) will be at the heart of the series. These investigations address contemporary questions informed by history, political theory and a sense of what constitutes the contemporary international order.
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Global Labour and the Migrant Premium
The Cost of Working Abroad
Edited by Tugba Basaran and Elspeth Guild
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Global Labour and the Migrant Premium
The Cost of Working Abroad
Edited by Tugba Basaran and Elspeth Guild
First published 2019
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Names: Basaran, Tugba, editor. | Guild, Elspeth, editor.
Title: Global labour and the migrant premium : the cost of working abroad / edited by Tugba Basaran and Elspeth Guild.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in liberty and security | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018019311| ISBN 9781138606999 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429467387 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Foreign workers. | Labor market. | Emigration and immigrationEconomic aspects.
Classification: LCC HD6300 .G56 2019 | DDC 331.5/44dc23
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Anthony Amicelle is Associate Professor in Criminology at the Universit de Montral and regular researcher at the Montreal Centre for International Studies (CERIUM) and the International Centre for Comparative Criminology (ICCC). His research examines practices of policing, surveillance and intelligence at the interface of finance and security, especially with respect to counter-terrorism and anti-money laundering. His recent publications include (with Vanessa Iafolla) Suspicion-in-the-Making: Surveillance and Denunciation in Financial Policing (British Journal of Criminology, 2017) and Policing through Misunderstanding: Insights from the Configuration of Financial Policing (Crime, Law and Social Change, 2017).
Idil Atak is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Director in the Department of Criminology of Ryerson University. She received her PhD from the Universit de Montrals Faculty of Law. Idil is a member of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migrations (IASFM) Executive Committee, the past president of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) and a research associate at Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law of McGill University. She is currently conducting a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)-funded research on the intersection of security, irregular migration and asylum.
