scholarly journals INVISIBILITY OF WOMEN MIGRANT WORKERS AND COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN INDIA

SYNERGY ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatima TAUSEEF ◽  
Mridula CHAUHAN
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Face ◽  
Persistent Poverty ◽  
Sudden Transition ◽  
Experiences Of Women

The neo-liberal model of development has facilitated the cross-border movements, thereby making both national and international migration one of the survival strategies to fight against persistent poverty, economic insecurity and deepening inequalities. It is known to all that Covid-19 and lockdown measures had a large impact on employment and labour market affecting human lives across the globe. This paper focuses on the experiences of women migrant workers situated within one of the most populous states of India, i.e., Uttar Pradesh. How did they make sense of their lived realities in the face of downsizing being done by the companies, which meant partial wages or losing the jobs permanently, and also the sudden transition that they had to opt for and negotiate with?

scholarly journals Negotiated Agency amidst Overlapping Vulnerabilities of Women Migrant Workers in South Asia

Social Change ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ananya Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Undocumented Migrants ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Internal Migrants ◽  
Forced Labour ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Marriage, family reunification, forced labour and trafficking are some of the most widely attributed causes of women’s migration within South Asia. This paper contributes to a small but growing literature about women’s migration within South Asia for employment amidst social, cultural and policy level barriers that hinder women’s mobility choices. It examines the experiences of 45 migrant women from economically poorer backgrounds comprising both cross-border, undocumented migrants from Nepal and Bangladesh and internal migrants from India working in informal jobs within India. This paper also explores similarities and differences between migration and labour market experiences of women migrants in South Asia showing how migration for employment can contribute towards agency formation but at the same time increase vulnerability by bringing about a reduction in well-being, security and dignity in the absence of secure policies that address challenges of women migrants in the region.

Water scarcity and sustainability in the arid area of North America: Insights gained from a cross border perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia ◽  
John W. Day
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
North America ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Arid Area ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
The Face

The arid border region that encompasses the American Southwest and the Mexican northwest is an area where the nexus of water scarcity and climate change in the face of growing human demands for water, emerging energy scarcity, and economic change comes into sharp focus.

Convivial linguistic practices: lived togetherness through language in the United Arab Emirates

Multilingua ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
William Robert Amilan Cook
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
The Face ◽  
Small Story ◽  
Small Stories ◽  
Linguistic Practices ◽  
The City

Abstract This paper takes up conviviality as an analytical tool to investigate everyday language choices made by foreign residents living in Ras Al Khaimah, a small city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It draws on recent work in human geography and cultural studies to understand conviviality in terms of practices rather than outcomes. Specifically, it investigates some of the linguistic dimensions of conviviality deployed by residents of the city in everyday situations of linguistic contact and negotiation of difference. The paper focuses on participants’ “small story” narratives (Georgakopoulou, Alexandra. 2015. Small stories research: Methods – analysis – outreach. In Anna De Fina & Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), The handbook of narrative analysis, 255–272. Malden: John Wiley & Sons) that exemplify everyday language choices in the face of a highly ethnolinguistically diverse as well as racially and economically stratified society. Considering the multitude of ethnolinguistic and socioeconomic divisions in the city and the country as a whole, the paper unpacks how such cross-border contact is negotiated through everyday language practices. The paper identifies four types of convivial linguistic practices described by my participants: language sharing, benevolent interpretation, language checks and respectful language choices. In the process, I also probe the limits of what studying conviviality can tell us about everyday linguistic togetherness in highly segregated societies marked by stark inequalities.

Migrant Taxes and International Migration Patterns

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saibal Kar
Keyword(s):  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Migration Pattern ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Tax Structure ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Skill Group ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Symmetric Information ◽  
Regressive Tax

This article investigates the effect of ‘migration taxes’ on the migration pattern for skill types under asymmetric information in cross-border labour markets. In the presence of migration taxes, the top skill group migrating under complete asymmetric information may not be lower than that under symmetric information. We also establish that for the revenue maximizing tax authority, the regressive tax structure across skill types Pareto dominates all other schemes.

scholarly journals THE INACCESSIBILITY OF JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WORKERS: A CAPABILITIES-BASED PERSPECTIVE

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany Hastie
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Regulatory Structure ◽  
Legal Remedies ◽  
The Face ◽  
Temporary Foreign Worker Programs ◽  
Access Mechanisms

This article examines the barriers migrant workers face in accessing justice, including the ability to assert legal rights in the workplace, and to access mechanisms for legal redress or remedy. Drawing on empirical research, and using the capabilities approach as a conceptual framework through which to examine these issues, this article demonstrates that the regulatory structure of the Temporary Foreign Worker Programs operates to actively constrain the ability for migrant workers to assert their rights in the workplace, and seek effective legal remedies in the face of rights violations.

Self-Undermining Rhetoric in the Past and Present

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Seth Levine
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Broad Concept ◽  
The Face

This chapter considers the prospects for political change in the face of communicative barriers to collective action. It begins to address this question by identifying several of the most well-known historical and recent moments in which there was large-scale mobilization on some economic insecurity issues. This discussion, in concert with the empirical findings in this book, helps clarify the prospects for political action (and policy change) on these issues. The chapter then uses the findings from the book to identify three types of people that are most likely to become active. It also talks about the implications of having this (narrower) set of people active as opposed to the full range of people that find the issues to be important. It concludes by reiterating how self-undermining rhetoric is a broad concept that can apply in many different situations beyond those considered herein.

Grassroots struggles to protect occupational and environmental health

2019 ◽  
pp. 189-210
Author(s):  
Kathy Jenkins ◽  
Sara Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Downward Pressure ◽  
The Face ◽  
Changing Patterns

This chapter is based on a number of international case studies of grassroots occupational and environmental health struggles that are attempting to link workplace, environment and community. Interviews with key people involved in each struggle, in combination with documented campaigns and our own experience as occupational and environmental health activists, have provided a picture of the changing patterns of work under neoliberalism, and the implications for community and workers’ struggle for environmental justice and occupational health. Themes include the erosion of the distinction between work and community and between the workplace and the environment; the increasing casualisation and precarity of work; downward pressure on working conditions; repression of trade unions and decline in union membership; deregulation of work, safety and environmental protection; and particular risks faced by women, young and migrant workers. Union and community organisers are employing diverse tactics in the face of these challenges.

On the quality of outsourced interpreting services in criminal courts in Spain

Babel ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-225
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Vigier-Moreno
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Criminal Courts ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Cultural Services ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Migration Flows

Abstract Globalisation, cross-border human mobility and international migration flows have prompted cross-linguistic and cross-cultural services (e.g. translation and interpreting) in all spheres of current societies, including a sector as sensitive as justice. In Spain, as in many other countries, in the last two decades, despite fierce criticism from practitioners and academics, there has been a trend for the authorities to meet these needs by outsourcing these services to private companies rather than hiring qualified professionals individually, on the grounds that this system allows for cheaper and more efficient services. This article presents the most relevant results of a research project based on the analysis of a corpus of authentic interpreter-mediated criminal proceedings, the first project of this kind in Spain. After briefly explaining how the project was carried out and how the corpus was transcribed, annotated and analysed, special attention is paid to the findings in relation to the interpreters’ performance in terms of fidelity and accuracy, and some illustrative examples are provided. The aim is to address the quality of outsourced interpreting services in Spanish criminal courts as well as to indicate areas for improvement.

scholarly journals Closure, equality or organisation: Trade union responses to EU labour migration

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 528-542
Author(s):  
Alexandre Afonso ◽  
Samir Negash ◽  
Emily Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Immigration Control ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
The Face ◽  
Comparative Case Studies ◽  
Political Intervention ◽  
The Uk

This paper explores trade union strategies to protect wages in the face of EU migration after the enlargement of the European Union. We argue that unions have three instruments at their disposal to deal with the risks linked to downward wage pressure: closure through immigration control, equalisation through collective bargaining and minimum wages, and the organisation of migrant workers. Using comparative case studies of Sweden, Germany and the UK, we show how different types of power resources shape union strategies: unions with substantial organisational resources (in Sweden) relied on a large membership to pursue an equalisation strategy and expected to be able to ‘afford’ openness. German unions with low membership but access to the political system pushed for a mix of closure and equality drawing on political intervention (e.g. minimum wages). British unions, unable to pursue either, focused their efforts on organisation.

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