The Asian economic crisis dramatically influenced the context in which a growing number of international migrants had begun to spread from poorer to more industrialised countries in East Asia, accompanying the export and FDI booms of the 1990s. Important uncertainties included the impact on clandestine migrant workers, replacement of migrants by local workers and countervailing pressures for in...

This paper demonstrates how mobilities perspectives might contribute to debates in political economy on labour and work, by interrogating mobility’s relation work labour. The makes four interventions. It offers (1) an overview of the literature mobile working with concerns develop a typology grounded movement geographical space. (2) then examines different types are coordinated. Coordination is...

Abstract Can new channels for mid‐skill labour mobility simultaneously enhance the welfare of Australia and Pacific Region? Answering this question requires forecasting Australian demand vocationally‐skilled migrants over next generation, potential supply those migrants. We project such three decades by combining data on trends in basic tasks with native investment education commensurate tasks....

This article presents an analysis of slave labour (as it is known in Brazil) among sugar cane workers within a globalising production network. It employs the Global Production Network (GPN) framework to argue that the dynamics of production networks are fundamental to the reproduction of unfree and degrading labour in this case. First, the power exercised by buyers is a key aspect of processes ...