Precarious lives : forced labour, exploitation and asylum /

This ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK. Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores how asylum and forced labour are linked, and enmeshe...

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Main Authors: Lewis, Hannah (Author), Dwyer, Peter (Peter James) (Author), Hodkinson, Stuart (Author), Waite, Louise, 1975- (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, [2014]
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505 0 |a PRECARIOUS LIVES; Contents; List of tables and figures; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Glossary; 1. Introduction: the return of slavery?; Modern slavery and the UK; Research presented in this book; Outline of the book; 2. Structuring forced labour: neoliberal labour markets, immigration policy and forced migration; Introduction; Neoliberalism and the rise of migrant labour exploitation: from a global to a UK context; 'Managed migration': immigration policy in the UK; Conclusion; 3. Forced labour among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK; Introduction. 
505 8 |a Defining forced labourFinding forced migrants in forced labour in the Yorkshire and Humber region; Experiences of severe labour exploitation and forced labour; From practices to processes of forced labour; Conclusion; 4. The significance of socio-legal status; Introduction; A typology: entry into the UK and entry into forced labour; Role of socio-legal status in forced labour processes; Conclusion; 5. The struggle to exit exploitation; Introduction; Pushing back: negotiation, resilience and rejecting exploitation; Exit: escape, walking way, being pushed away. 
505 8 |a From exit to re-entry: movement along the unfreedom continuumConclusion; 6. Conceptualising hyper-precarious migrant lives: from forced labour to unfreedom; Introduction; Going beyond forced labour; Introducing the continuum of unfreedom; Migrants caught in the hyper-precarity trap; Conclusion; 7. Tackling the hyper-precarity trap; Introduction; Hyper-precarious lives: forced migration, asylum and labour exploitation; Responding to forced and severe labour exploitation of migrants: regularisation, not criminalisation; Conclusion; References; Index. 
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