Part V: introduction

Andrew Herod

A chapter in Handbook of Labour Geography, 2025, pp 284-289 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The first chapter lays out a framework for better understanding international labour migration from the Global South to core countries in the Global North. In particular, it explores how international labour migration plays a role in creating an in situ spatial fix, bringing workers from overseas to satisfy the needs of manufacturers who are short of workers. The next chapter looks at Mexican migrants in the USA in the mid-twentieth century and makes the argument that they expressed power through making themselves not available for work – that is, it was their absence that expressed their agency. The third chapter looks at how Polish migrants in Northern Ireland have created a sense of community, remaking parts of the built environment to do so. Finally, the last chapter details the lives of palm oil migrant workers in Southeast Asia and how they use different spaces to organise to improve their lives.

Keywords: Labour precarity; Worker mobility; Bracero Program; California agriculture; Polishness; Citizenship; Solidarność; Indonesia; Malaysia; Plantationocene; Global commodity chains (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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