Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • From Crisis to Catastrophe

    Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change

    Series series Carework in a Changing World
    The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Employers, Agencies and Immigration

    Paying for Care

    Exploring the performance by immigrants of domestic and care work in European households, this book places the employer centre-stage, examining the role of the employer and his or her agents in securing the balance between work, family and welfare needs, as well as investigating both who the employers are and the nature of their relationships with migrant workers. With attention to the dynamics of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Between Protection and Harm

    Negotiated Vulnerabilities in Asylum Laws and Bureaucracies

    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book dissects the current narratives of ‘vulnerability’ in asylum laws and policies, by unpacking the meanings, productions, and performances, of ‘vulnerability’ in different contexts, from countries of first asylum in the Global South to Europe and Canada. It discusses how the increased reliance on ‘vulnerability’ to guide states’ replies to refugee movements improves refugee ... Read more

    Free

  • Migration and Domestic Work

    IMISCOE Short Reader

    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access short reader offers a systematic overview of the scholarly debate on the experiences of migrant domestic workers at a global level, in the past as well as in present time. It tackles the nexus between migration and domestic work with a multi-layered approach. The book looks into the issue of (paid) domestic work in migratory contexts by investigating the feminization of migration, ... Read more

    Free

  • Global Domestic Workers

    Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights

    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across 9 countries in Europe, South America and Asia, this comparative study explores the conditions of domestic workers around the world and the campaigns they are conducting to improve their labour rights.The book showcases how domestic workers’ movements put ‘intersectionality in ... Read more

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Civil Society and International Governance

    The Role of Non-State Actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East

    Series series Routledge/GARNET series
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the only – or even the most ... Read more

    Free

  • Social Movements

    An Introduction

    A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action – covers a broad range of approaches in the social sciences.Now in its third edition, Social Movements is the market-leading introductory text on collective action in contemporary society. The text draws from theory-driven, systematic empirical research from across the social sciences to ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy

    Empirical Research and Normative Implications

    by Jürg Steiner ...
    Deliberative democracy is now an influential approach to the study of democracy and political behaviour. Its key proposition is that, in politics, it is not only power that counts, but good discussions and arguments too. This book examines the interplay between the normative and empirical aspects of the deliberative model of democracy. Jürg Steiner presents the main normative controversies in the ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Confronting Equality

    Gender, Knowledge and Global Change

    What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In this new book, Raewyn Connell combines vivid research with theoretical insight and radical politics to address this question. The focus moves across gender equality struggles, family change, class and education, intellectual workers, and the global dimension of social science, to contemporary ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Civil Societies and Social Movements

    Potentials and Problems

    Edited by Derrick Purdue ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital, social movements and the role of civil society in emerging forms of governance.The authors adopt a broad range of research approaches, from testing hypotheses drawn from rationale choice theory against available statistics on associations, to ethnographic study of emerging attempts at participant / deliberative democracy. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Future Agenda for Internationalization in Higher Education

    Next Generation Insights into Research, Policy, and Practice

    Series series Internationalization in Higher Education Series
    The internationalization of higher education is a world-wide phenomenon, subject to multiple interpretations at national, institutional and individual levels. Still, much of the mainstream literature on this topic is concentrated on a small number of countries and a narrow range of key topics.To address this gap, The Future Agenda for Internationalization in Higher Education offers a broader set ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Untapped Power

    Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion for Conflict and Development

    Edited by Carla Koppell ...
    Untapped Power provides extensive insight into why and how to advance diversity, equity and inclusion when promoting development, and addressing fragility and violent conflict. Urgent challenges relating to diversity and inclusion are universal. The global #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements as well as the push for LGBTQ+ rights are all emblematic of a growing interest in and focus on how to ... Read more

    $27.89 USD