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Navigating Precarity: the lives of London’s migrant cleaners (2024)
Thesis
Marcel, C. Navigating Precarity: the lives of London’s migrant cleaners. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study examines London’s migrant cleaners’ experiences of precarity and how they navigate those experiences. In the context of a neoliberal, anti-migrant climate in the UK, migrant workers have experienced intensified vulnerability whilst at the... Read More about Navigating Precarity: the lives of London’s migrant cleaners.

Sorry For My Left: The Transnational Practices and Identity Formation of Second Generation Ghanaians (2023)
Thesis
Kwarteng, K. A. B. Sorry For My Left: The Transnational Practices and Identity Formation of Second Generation Ghanaians. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study is a comparative analysis of the second generation Ghanaian transnational experience, focusing on the experiences of second generation Ghanaians in London, New York City, and Accra. This thesis examines the different transnational practice... Read More about Sorry For My Left: The Transnational Practices and Identity Formation of Second Generation Ghanaians.

Makers, Brokers, and Migrants: Experiences of Digital Government in South Korea and the United Kingdom (2022)
Thesis
Lim, I. Makers, Brokers, and Migrants: Experiences of Digital Government in South Korea and the United Kingdom. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The use of websites and mobile applications to deliver public services has gained widespread popularity throughout local, national, and international institutions. However, the qualitative aspects of digital government services remain understudied, e... Read More about Makers, Brokers, and Migrants: Experiences of Digital Government in South Korea and the United Kingdom.

Diaspora finance for infrastructure development in Nigeria: exploring motivations, mechanisms and impact (2022)
Thesis
Bolaji, O. Diaspora finance for infrastructure development in Nigeria: exploring motivations, mechanisms and impact. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The money that migrants send back home is at the heart of the relationship between migration and development. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest to exploit ‘diaspora finance’ for the provision of public goods, including infrastr... Read More about Diaspora finance for infrastructure development in Nigeria: exploring motivations, mechanisms and impact.

The global economic crisis and East Asian labour migration: a crisis of migration or struggles of labour? (2014)
Book Chapter
Chang, D.-O. (2014). The global economic crisis and East Asian labour migration: a crisis of migration or struggles of labour?. In A. Lindley (Ed.), Crisis and Migration: Critical perspectives (93-114). Routledge

This chapter aims to identify the impact of the on-going global recession on migrant workers in East Asia whose movement and mobility are deeply embedded in East Asia’s regional development today. The current global crisis of neoliberalism has oversh... Read More about The global economic crisis and East Asian labour migration: a crisis of migration or struggles of labour?.