List of tables
List of figures
List of plates
List of acronyms
Acknowledgements
1. Deregulation, migration and the new world of work
2. Global city labour markets and London's new migrant division of
labour
3. London's low paid foreign-born workers
4. Living and remaking London's ethnic and gender divisions
5. Tactics of survival amongst migrant workers in London
6. Relational lives: Migrants, London and the rest of the world
7. Remaking the city: Immigration and post-secular politics in
London today
8 Just geographies of (im)migration
Appendices
References
Index
Jane Wills works at the Department of Geography and The City
Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of
Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009).
Kavita Datta works at the Department of Geography and The City
Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of
Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009).
Yara Evans works at the Department of Geography and The City
Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. Her academic background
is in Human Geography and she is the author of Global Cities At
Work (Pluto, 2009).
Joanna Herbert teaches at the Department of Geography and The City
Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of
Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009).
John May is at the Department of Geography and The City Centre,
Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Global Cities
At Work (Pluto, 2009).
Cathy McIlwaine is a lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield. She has
carried out research in the Caribbean and Costa Rica and the
Philippines in the areas of gender, ethnicity and urban labour
markets. She has also worked as a consultant on structural
adjustment and urban poverty at the World Bank. She is the author
of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009).
'The voices of migrant workers come alive in these pages'
*Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography, University of British
Columbia*
'A rare but critical window into the scale, nature and
contradictions of contemporary immigration into the UK'
*Danny Sriskandarajah, former Head of Migration at the Institute
for Public Policy Research*
'A very timely book. The description of migration-based divisions
in the labour market should be of concern to all policy makers and
politicians currently involved in planning a way out of deep
recession'
*Don Flynn, Director of the Migrants Rights Network*
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