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- Immigration and trade law do not bar any of the developments I analyze here. The question is whether they should. This article—the first step in a larger project—launches that inquiry. (1)
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Nondomination And The Ambitions Of Employment Law, Aditi Bagchi
Nondomination And The Ambitions Of Employment Law, Aditi Bagchi
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There is something missing in existing discussions of domination. While republican theory and critical legal theory each have contributed significantly to our understanding of domination, their focus on structural relationships and group subordination can leave out of focus the individual wrongs that make up domination, each of which is an unjustified exercise of power by one person over another. Private law (supported by private law theory) plays an important role in filling out our pictures of domination and the role of the state in limiting it. Private law allows us to recognize domination in wrongs by one person against another, …
In The Zone: Work At The Intersection Of Trade And Migration, Jennifer Gordon
In The Zone: Work At The Intersection Of Trade And Migration, Jennifer Gordon
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Trade and immigration are generally described as separate dimensions of globalization. This Article challenges that story by focusing on settings where states and private actors are bringing the two together to achieve disparate economic and policy goals. In one set of cases analyzed here, governments in the Global South are seeking to increase trade through the use of migrant labor, attracting transnational firms to export manufacturing zones by importing lower-cost workers from other countries. In the other, policymakers in the Global North are seeking to decrease immigration through the use of trade by investing in export processing zones in migrant …
Tensions In Rhetoric And Reality At The Intersection Of Work And Immigration, Jennifer Gordon
Tensions In Rhetoric And Reality At The Intersection Of Work And Immigration, Jennifer Gordon
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Transnational Labor Citizenship, Jennifer Gordon
Transnational Labor Citizenship, Jennifer Gordon
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Over one million new immigrants arrive in the United States each year. This spring, Americans saw several times that number pour into the streets, protesting proposed changes in U.S. immigration and guest work policies. As the signs they carried indicated, most migrants come to work, and it is in the workplace that the impact of large numbers of newcomers is most keenly felt. For those who see both the free movement of people and the preservation of decent working conditions as essential to social justice, this presents a seemingly unresolvable dilemma. In a situation of massive inequality among countries, to …