Law, migration, and precarious labour : ecotechnics of the social /
Anastasia Tataryn.
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The ecotechnics of immigration and employment law -- Migrants at work as ecotechnical -- Labour as ecotechnical -- Law as ecotechnical -- Home/nation : eco/techne.
"Providing a radical new approach to labour migration, this book challenges the prevailing legal and political construction of the figure of the irregular migrant labourer, whilst at the same time reimagining this irregularity as the basis of an alternative, post-capitalist, sociality. The text draws on the work of contemporary philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, and more specifically his term 'ecotechnics', in order to examine how economic, political and juridical norms deny the full legal status of certain people who are deemed to be irregular. This ostensible irregularity is revealed as a regular feature of labour market practice, and a necessary support for the conceptual foundations of capitalist legality. As this book shows, however, this legality - and with it, the technological subordination of life to the circulation of capital as if this were the only possibility for our being in the world - is not insurmountable. The book's consideration of the figure of the irregular migrant labourer comes to provide an alternative basis for reimagining our relationship not only to migration and to labour itself, but ultimately to each other. This powerful analysis of contemporary labour migration is of considerable interest to legal and political theorists, philosophers, labour lawyers, migration experts, and others with theoretical, political or policy interests in this area. Anastasia Tataryn is an Assistant Professor at St. Jerome's University of Waterloo, Canada"--
Migrant labor--Legal status, laws, etc. Precarious employment--Law and legislation. Emigration and immigration law. Labor laws and legislation, International. Technology and law. LAW / General LAW / Emigration & Immigration LAW / Labor & Employment