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The Who Emf Project: Legitimating The Imaginary Of Global Harmonization Of Emf Safety Standards, David Mercer
The Who Emf Project: Legitimating The Imaginary Of Global Harmonization Of Emf Safety Standards, David Mercer
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
An important topic for studies of STS and globalization are the ways “global” institutions create and attempt to implement health guidelines and safety standards to address risks associated with new technologies. In the following discussion this topic is examined through a case study of the activities of the World Health Organization’s Electric and Magnetic Field Project (WHO EMF Project).
The Neoliberal Governance Of Global Labor Mobility: Migrant Workers And The New Constitutional Moments Of Primitive Accumulation, Hironori Onuki
The Neoliberal Governance Of Global Labor Mobility: Migrant Workers And The New Constitutional Moments Of Primitive Accumulation, Hironori Onuki
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
One feature of the ''age of migration'' in which we live has been an increasing movement of labor from the Global South to the North, mainly in ''low-skill'' and low-wage jobs. This article examines how far and in what ways contemporary capital-driven migration-related policies in labor-receiving and labor-sending states have shaped the subjectivity of transnational migrant workers and their positioning in host societies. It does so through the notion of new constitutional moments of primitive accumulation that designates the production of social spaces for the commodification of labor through the implementation of specific migration policies by labor-receiving states in the …
Review Of "Transcultural Writers And Novels In The Age Of Global Mobility", Michael R. Jacklin
Review Of "Transcultural Writers And Novels In The Age Of Global Mobility", Michael R. Jacklin
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Mobility is a fact of contemporary life. Whether voluntary or forced, experiences of relocation are shaping the lives of millions and, increasingly, literature is turning to matters of transcultural and translingual identity that follow such relocations.