Mobility Power, State and the ‘Sponsored Labour Regime’ in Saudi Capitalism

This article draws on the ‘double indeterminacy of labour power’, a key conceptual development in process theory, to examine mobility power Saudi Arabia. State control over migrant workers is crucial and wider political-economy However, little known about mobility–effort bargaining specific forms context. argues that not only at core capital–labour relations Arabia, but effort are variably controlled by different sponsors/agents control. Importantly, exercised state, capital other sponsors migrants’ absolute. Developing further, details multiplicity mobilities contracts delineate ‘sponsored regime’, highlights underexplored role agents control, conceptualising bargaining.