Table of Contents

1. The Ecotechnics of Immigration and Employment Law  2. Migrants at Work as Ecotechnics  3. Labour as Ecotechnics  4. Law as Ecotechnics  5. Home/Nation: Eco/Techne

About the Author

Anastasia Tataryn is an Assistant Professor at St. Jerome’s University of Waterloo, Canada.

Reviews

'This fantastic book marks a significant addition to the conceptual and theoretical tools for analysing contemporary human mobility. Through an analysis of migration/movement and labour/active life, Tataryn explores how our coming together in a shared world is not only governed but shaped through nation states, markets, and law. She demonstrates how labour migration helps us better understand and imagine contemporary socialities and goes beyond critique to open up new possibilities for imagining ways of being together in the world. Migration needs new thinking, and this is what this book gives us.'– Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship, University of Bristol ,UK'A new light is shed on labour migration with this book. Through Jean Luc Nancy’s work on ecotechnics, Tataryn links the political dimension of migration with geopolitical, technological, legal, philosophical, and broadly understood ecological concepts, and allows us to imagine a new material and embodied way of conceptualising migration and thereby resisting easy neoliberal constructions. It shows how migration is not an isolated phenomenon but the inescapable sense of our ontological condition. This is a profoundly topical book, unapologetically putting labour migration at the forefront of the contemporary global political move to the right, and offering strategies of resistance that question the usual preponderance of the market, the nation-state and the law. Migration is no longer a problem to be solved but an onto-epistemic plurality of flows.'– Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Professor of Law & Theory, University of Westminster, UK