Soziologie

Lecture by Sebastian Rumsby (University of Birmingham, UK) on "Reconceptualising cross-border labour markets as global labour migration chains: mobilities from/to/in/through Vietnam" (RTG 2951 Lecture Series)

In today's international political economy of capital mobility, restrictive migration regimes and incredible global inequality, contemporary labour migration trends appear to resemble the dynamics of global commodity chains. This lecture will engage with the literature of transnational labour markets and global care chains in order to propose a new concept of 'global labour migration chains'. Applying this concept to ongoing research about labour migration patterns from, to and within Vietnam reveals how transnational mobilities follow similar logics of market competition, stratification, outsourcing and 'upgrading' as in global commodity chains.

June 2nd, 13:45-15:30 Room X-B2-103, Bielefeld University