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  • The Modern Slavery Agenda

    Policy, Politics and Practice

    by Colleen Theron, Patrick Burland, Kate Roberts, Chloe Setter, Vicky Brotherton, Ruth Van Dyke, Aidan McQuade ...
    Modern slavery, in the form of labour exploitation, domestic servitude, sexual trafficking, child labour and cannabis farming, is still growing in the UK and industrialised countries, despite the introduction of laws to try to stem it.This hugely topical book, by a team of high-profile activists and expert writers, is the first to critically assess the legislation, using evidence from across the ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Managing labour migration in Europe

    Ideas, knowledge and policy change

    by Alex Balch ...
    Labour migration has become one of the hot topics in Europe, especially since 2000 with the shift from restriction to managed migration. This book provides an authoritative account of policy change over labour migration in Europe during this new era of governance.It has important implications for debates about the contemporary governance of labour migration in Europe, and questions about the ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Immigration and the State

    Fear, Greed and Hospitality

    by Alex Balch ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines how and why liberalism and human rights have proven insufficient to protect immigrants. Contemporary immigration systems are characterized by increasing complexity and expanding enforcement, and frequently criticized for violating human rights and for causing death, exclusion and exploitation. The ‘migrant crisis’ can also be understood as a crisis of hospitality for liberal ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World

    by Paul Jenkins, Harry Smith, Ya Ping Wang ...
    Series series Housing, Planning and Design Series
    Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing.Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to ‘sustainability’, it focuses on the rapid urbanization of developing countries with case studies from Latin ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Paradiplomacy in Action

    The Foreign Relations of Subnational Governments

    Edited by Francisco Aldecoa, Dr Michael Keating ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Federalism and Decentralization
    Offering a general view of the development of subnational foreign action around the world, this work covers topics such as the repercussions upon subnational autonomy of the progressive consistution of international regimes such as the EU, NAFTA and APEC. ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Water on Tap

    Rights and Regulation in the Transnational Governance of Urban Water Services

    by Bronwen Morgan ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    In the 1990s and mid-2000s, turbulent political and social protests surrounded the issue of private sector involvement in providing urban water services in both the developed and developing world. Water on Tap explores examples of such conflicts in six national settings (France, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand), focusing on a central question: how were rights and regulation ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The European Union and the Social Dimension of Globalization

    How the EU Influences the World

    Edited by Jan Orbie, Lisa Tortell ...
    Series series Routledge/GARNET series
    This volume provides a comprehensive account of the European Union’s social role in the world, assessing the EU’s ability to shape the social aspect of globalization from both law and political science perspectives.Focusing explicitly on the EU, the authors address the extent of coherence between the Union’s international social objectives compared with the activities of the International Labour ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Regionalisation and Global Governance

    The Taming of Globalisation?

    Edited by Andrew F. Cooper, Christopher W. Hughes, Philippe De Lombaerde ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    The relationship between global governance and regionalization is fraught with ambiguity. Understanding regionalization in this context requires an understanding of its relationship, and reactive condition, with both the constellations of global governance and globalization.This book presents an overview and explores the distinctive but intersecting trajectories of regionalization and global ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice

    Edited by Bryant Garth, Yves Dezalay ...
    Series series Law, Development and Globalization
    Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice examines the people, the conflicts, and the mechanisms involved in producing transnational norms and institutions. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Global Institutions and Development

    Framing the World?

    Edited by Morten Boas, Desmond McNeill ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    This unique book explores a very broad range of ideas and institutions and provides thorough and detailed case studies in the context of broader theoretical analysis.Key topics such as poverty, global governance, sustainable development and the environment are closely examined, with detailed case studies of the World Bank, the WTO, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, UN Development Programme and the ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Globalisation and Migration

    New Issues, New Politics

    Edited by Ronaldo Munck ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    This book critically examines the new issues and new politics regarding migration in the era of globalisation from a majority world perspective. It examines the current shifts in the global political economy and the effects it has, for example, in relation to rural displacement. When and how does this lead to national and/or transnational migration? We need to examine the ways in which migration ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • New Regionalism and the European Union

    Dialogues, Comparisons and New Research Directions

    Edited by Alex Warleigh-Lack, Nick Robinson, Ben Rosamond ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    The debates on regionalism have been polarized between European Union (EU) scholars and non-EU scholars, with the assumption being that regionalism within the EU and other regions of the world are quite distinct, with little to be learnt from dialogue with each other. This book challenges such assumptions and calls for a genuine debate between scholars of regionalism.This book demonstrates that ... Read more

    $56.99 USD