Introduction: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Global Labor Migration Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, and Joo-Cheong Tham
Part I. Colonial Authority and the Transimperial
1. “Politics of Protection and the Southeast-Asian ‘Coolie Trade’: Chinese Labor Migration and Trans-Imperial Connections in the British Straits Settlements and the Netherlands East Indies, 1870-1914” Bastiaan Nugteren
2. “Militarized Mobility: The U.S. Army and Chinese Exclusion in America’s Empire at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century” Justin F. Jackson
3. “Before the Windrush: Black British Colonial Labor in Cuba and the Dominican Republic” Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres
4. “Ethnicity, Migrant Labor and Anti-Colonialism: Historical Intersections in Mid-Twentieth century East Africa” Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos
Part II. Gender and Sexualities
5. “Sex Trafficking in the Motor City: The Construction of an International Deportation Infrastructure in Detroit, USA, 1924-1944" Jessica R. Pliley
6. “Securitizing Migration: Finance and Household Reproduction” Penelope Ciancanelli
7. “Saving Asian Marriages: Migration, Gender, and the Communal Politics of Welfare in 1970s Britain” Radhika Natarajan
8. “Buy with 1-Click: Independent Contracting and Migrant Workers in China’s Last-Mile Delivery” Jenny Chan
Part III. National and Transnational Regulation
9. “The Wedge of the Refugee as Worker: Litigation over Asylum Seeker Work Authorization in the United States, 1974-2021” Yael Schacherp> 10. “Rethinking ‘Unfree’ Labor: The Immigration Industrial Complex” Katie Bales
11. “Transnational Corporations and the Making of Global Labour Markets: The Case of Foxconn in China and Europe” Rutvica Andrijasevic, Pun Ngai, and Devi Sacchetto
12. “‘Beyond Borders’: The Regulation of the Living and Working Conditions of International Seafarers” Helen Sampson
Part IV. Global Governance
13. “Moving Workers: International Labour Organization Standards and the Regulation of Migration” Eileen Boris
14. “From the ILO to Intergovernmentalism: “Surplus Population,” Discrimination, and the Genealogy of Global Migration Management” Charlie Fanning
15. “Governing Global Labor Migration: Compacts and Contradictions” Judy Fudge
16. “Decent Wages for Decent Work in Asia: Addressing the Temporality-Precarity Nexus in South-South Migration” Matt Withers and Nicola Piper
Afterword: “Labor, Race and Temporality” Bridget Anderson
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