Precarious Lives: Forced labour, exploitation and asylum
Precarious Lives: Forced labour, exploitation and asylum
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Abstract
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 enmeshed in a broader picture of modern slavery produced through globalised working conditions. Drawing on original evidence generated in fieldwork with refugees and asylum seekers, the book will contribute to ongoing academic and policy debates on the causes of, and solutions to, forced and exploitative labour in the UK. A central claim of this book is that severe labour exploitation – including forced labour – among certain international migrant groups residing in the UK is structured and sustained by overlapping immigration and employment precarity. This claim is made through an analysis of the wider structures and processes of neoliberal labour markets, immigration and welfare policies, and migrant trajectories. We argue that asylum policy and forced labour are linked, and that such a relationship is enmeshed in a broader picture of modern slavery being produced through neoliberal globalised working conditions in the UK economy. This is important reading for students and academics in social policy, social geography, sociology, politics and refugee, labour and migration studies, and for policy makers and practitioners working to support migrants and tackle forced labour.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: the return of slavery?
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Structuring forced labour: neoliberal labour markets, immigration policy and forced migration
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Forced labour among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
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The significance of socio-legal status
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The struggle to exit exploitation
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Conceptualising hyper-precarious migrant lives: from forced labour to unfreedom
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Tackling the hyper-precarity trap
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End Matter
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