Law, Migration and Precarious Labour

Ecotechnics of the Social
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-138-70049-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Providing a radical new approach to labour migration, this book challenges the prevailing legal and political construction of the figure of the irregular migrant labourer, whilst at the same time reimagining this irregularity as the basis of an alternative, post-capitalist, sociality.

The text draws on the work of contemporary philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, and more specifically his term ‘ecotechnics’, in order to examine how economic, political, and juridical norms deny the full legal status of certain people who are deemed to be irregular. This ostensible irregularity is revealed as a regular feature of labour market practice, and a necessary support for the conceptual foundations of capitalist legality. As this book shows, however, this legality – and with it, the technological subordination of life to the circulation of capital as if this were the only possibility for our being in the world – is not insurmountable. The book’s consideration of the figure of the irregular migrant labourer comes to provide an alternative basis for reimagining our relationship not only with migration and with labour itself, but ultimately with each other.

This powerful analysis of contemporary labour migration is of considerable interest to legal and political theorists, philosophers, labour lawyers, migration experts, and others with theoretical, political, or policy interests in this area.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tataryn, Anastasia

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Ecotechnics of Immigration and Employment Law 2. Migrants at Work as Ecotechnics 3. Labour as Ecotechnics 4. Law as Ecotechnics 5. Home/Nation: Eco/Techne

Über Autor(innen)

Anastasia Tataryn is an Assistant Professor at St. Jerome’s University of Waterloo, Canada.