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  • Scaling Migrant Worker Rights

    How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power

    Xóchitl Bada, Shannon Gleeson

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    International migrants’ home countries often play an integral part in protecting their citizens’ labor and human rights abroad. At the same time, institutions such as labor unions, worker centers, and legal aid groups are among the most visible actors holding governments of immigrant destinations accountable. Focusing on Mexico and the United States, Scaling Migrant Worker Rights analyzes how these organizations pressure governments to defend migrants. The result is a multilayered picture of the impediments to migrant worker rights and the possibilities for their realization.

    “Highly original and timely, this book shines a light on underexplored actors in the labor rights and protection enforcement process.” — LEAH F. VOSKO, author of Disrupting Deportability: Transnational Workers Organize

    “A very robust and nuanced empirical analysis documenting how co-enforcement mechanisms across transnational civil society, consulates, and national governments work to implement existing labor rights protections.” — ALEXANDRA DÉLANO ALONSO, author of Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848

    “This important and innovative work provides a nuanced, rich, and detailed meso-analysis of institutions and institutional collaboration in Mexico and the US.” — NANCY PLANKEY-VIDELA, author of We Are in This Dance Together: Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm

    XÓCHITL BADA is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is author of Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán: From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement.

    SHANNON GLEESON is Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She is author of Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States.

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    Language: English

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.138

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    Bada X. & Gleeson S. 2023. Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.138
    Bada, X. and Gleeson, S., 2023. Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.138
    Bada, Xand S Gleeson. Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power. University of California Press, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.138
    Bada, X., & Gleeson, S. (2023). Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.138
    Bada, Xóchitl, and Shannon Gleeson. 2023. Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.138




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