Class, Contention, and a World in Motion

Winnie Lem is Professor of International Development Studies at Trent University, Canada. Her publications include Cultivating Dissent: Work, Identity and Praxis in Rural Languedoc (SUNY Press, 1997); and Culture, Economy, Power: Anthropology as Critique; Anthropology as Praxis (SUNY Press, 2002) [co-edited with Belinda Leach]. She has also published in American Ethnologist, Critique of Anthropology and Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology. Pauline Gardiner Barber is Professor of Anthropology at Dalhousie University, Canada. Recent articles on Filipinos as global migrants appear in Berghahn, Blackwell, SUNY and Routledge volumes, as well as journals such as the Third World Quarterly, Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology and Anthropologica. She is co-editor of the Ashgate Press series Gender in a Global/Local World.

"This volume fills a theoretical and empirical gap in the study of migration and globalization. Drawing upon the wealth of insights that anthropology may provide into the complex tapestry of spatial mobility, the volume enriches our understanding of the reasons behind global migration, providing a view of its effects on migrants and the social formation they are part of." * Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale "This book represents a superb edited collection of important and relevant articles on the relationship between class and migration in the contemporary world. As such, the introduction and the articles make a major contribution to the literatures on migration and industrial/service work under contemporary capitalist conditions of labor and neoliberal globalization." * Donald M. Nonini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "The authors challenge currently dominant approaches to migration, and offer important ways to move between the individual experience and the structure of the world system." * Alan Smart, University of Calgary

• Acknowledgements List of figures Chapter 1. Introduction Winnie Lem and Pauline Gardiner Barber PART I: CONFIGURATION OF CLASS Chapter 2. Strangers in a Globalising World: Class, Immobility and Livelihood among Afghan Refugee Workers in Iran Wenona Giles Chapter 3. New Migrants in a New Age: Globalisation, Networks and Gender in Rural Mexico Frances Abrahamer Rothstein Chapter 4. Relationships between the State and Mobile People: The Unequal Construction and Allocation of Risk and Trust at the U.S.-Mexico Border Josiah Heyman PART II: MIGRANTS AND MOBILISATION Chapter 5. Political engagement of Latin American in the UK: Issues, strategies, and the public debate Davide Pero Chapter 6. Resisting Fortress Europe: The everyday politics of female transnational migrants Elisabetta Zontini Chapter 7. Class, gender and history in political activism in Spain Susana Narotzky Chapter 8. Cell phones, complicity, and class politics in the Philippine labor diaspora Pauline Gardiner Barber PART III: COMPLICITY AND COMPLIANCE Chapter 9. Migrants Mobilisation And The Making Of Neoliberal Citizens In Contemporary France Winnie Lem Chapter 10. A clash of histories: Encounters of migrant and non-migrant labourers in the Canadian automobile parts industry Belinda Leach Chapter 11. Worker Demobilisation In The Global Economy: Unionism And Maquiladoras In Mexico Marie France Labrecque Notes on Contributors