Sarah Swider
Biographic Data
| ID | 252233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Swider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Swider |
| SIGNATURE | SWIDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6817-5753 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The politics of intimate citizenship: Sweetheart visas and pandemic-era migration policy in Europe
During the COVID-19 pandemic, border closures separated thousands of people who were in cross-national, unmarried relationships. Sweethearts across the world protested using the refrain and hashtag, #LoveIsNotTourism. In response, twelve European countries introduced sweetheart visas to reunite couples excluded from family-based migration policies. This study compares sweetheart visas to traditional family/marriage visas to assess their significa…
Informality in action: A relational look at informal work
We conceptualize informal work in relational terms, examining informality through the relations and interactions between and among a set of actors: capitalists, the state, organizations of informal workers, traditional trade unions, individual informal workers. We consider the leading explanations of the persistent growth of informal employment around the world, suggest that three such explanations (survivalist, structuralist, and “disembedded”) …
Migration and regional inequality: Changing characteristics of China’s economic inequality
Scholars studying economic inequality in China have maintained that regional inequality and economic divergence across provinces have steadily increased over the past 30 years. New studies have shown that this trend is a statistical aberration; calculations show that instead of quickly and sharply rising, regional inequality has actually decreased, and most recently, remained stable. Our study suggests that China’s unique migratory regime is cruc…
Charting New Territory: Global Unions and Governance Struggles
Land expropriation in urbanizing China: An examination of negotiations and compensation
A driving force of urban development is “accumulation by dispossession” which occurs through expropriation, privatization, and commodification of land. While the macro theory is now well refined, there is still much we do not know about how the underlying processes occur and how they shape economic development and urbanization. In this study, we analyze 2009 survey data of land expropriation cases across 12 Chinese cities, and find that expropria…
Building China: Precarious Employment Among Migrant Construction Workers
In China, informal precarious work has exploded and now represents a majority of urban employment. This article explores precarious informal work by presenting a case study of migrant workers in the construction industry. Despite the fact that these workers are all unregistered migrants performing informal construction work, there exists a diversity of labour market situations, working conditions and work relations. This article introduces the co…
Reshaping China's Urban Citizenship: Street Vendors, Chengguan and Struggles over the Right to the City
This article examines spatial politics involved with the remaking of urban citizenship across Chinese cities. China's emerging urban citizenship is shaped by its hukou system, which not only spatially and socially segregates rural migrants and urban natives in the cities, but also creates a large group of unregistered or 'illegal' migrants. This case study of unregistered migrant street venders looks at the implications of their unregistered stat…
Selling Sex Overseas: Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking
Building China: Precarious Employment Among Migrant Construction Workers
In China, informal precarious work has exploded and now represents a majority of urban employment. This article explores precarious informal work by presenting a case study of migrant workers in the construction industry. Despite the fact that these workers are all unregistered migrants performing informal construction work, there exists a diversity of labour market situations, working conditions and work relations. This article introduces the co…
Land expropriation in urbanizing China: An examination of negotiations and compensation
A driving force of urban development is “accumulation by dispossession” which occurs through expropriation, privatization, and commodification of land. While the macro theory is now well refined, there is still much we do not know about how the underlying processes occur and how they shape economic development and urbanization. In this study, we analyze 2009 survey data of land expropriation cases across 12 Chinese cities, and find that expropria…
Reshaping China's Urban Citizenship: Street Vendors, Chengguan and Struggles over the Right to the City
This article examines spatial politics involved with the remaking of urban citizenship across Chinese cities. China's emerging urban citizenship is shaped by its hukou system, which not only spatially and socially segregates rural migrants and urban natives in the cities, but also creates a large group of unregistered or 'illegal' migrants. This case study of unregistered migrant street venders looks at the implications of their unregistered stat…
Informality in action: A relational look at informal work
We conceptualize informal work in relational terms, examining informality through the relations and interactions between and among a set of actors: capitalists, the state, organizations of informal workers, traditional trade unions, individual informal workers. We consider the leading explanations of the persistent growth of informal employment around the world, suggest that three such explanations (survivalist, structuralist, and “disembedded”) …
Migration and regional inequality: Changing characteristics of China’s economic inequality
Scholars studying economic inequality in China have maintained that regional inequality and economic divergence across provinces have steadily increased over the past 30 years. New studies have shown that this trend is a statistical aberration; calculations show that instead of quickly and sharply rising, regional inequality has actually decreased, and most recently, remained stable. Our study suggests that China’s unique migratory regime is cruc…
Selling Sex Overseas: Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking
Building China: Precarious Employment Among Migrant Construction Workers
In China, informal precarious work has exploded and now represents a majority of urban employment. This article explores precarious informal work by presenting a case study of migrant workers in the construction industry. Despite the fact that these workers are all unregistered migrants performing informal construction work, there exists a diversity of labour market situations, working conditions and work relations. This article introduces the co…
Reshaping China's Urban Citizenship: Street Vendors, Chengguan and Struggles over the Right to the City
This article examines spatial politics involved with the remaking of urban citizenship across Chinese cities. China's emerging urban citizenship is shaped by its hukou system, which not only spatially and socially segregates rural migrants and urban natives in the cities, but also creates a large group of unregistered or 'illegal' migrants. This case study of unregistered migrant street venders looks at the implications of their unregistered stat…
Land expropriation in urbanizing China: An examination of negotiations and compensation
A driving force of urban development is “accumulation by dispossession” which occurs through expropriation, privatization, and commodification of land. While the macro theory is now well refined, there is still much we do not know about how the underlying processes occur and how they shape economic development and urbanization. In this study, we analyze 2009 survey data of land expropriation cases across 12 Chinese cities, and find that expropria…
Migration and regional inequality: Changing characteristics of China’s economic inequality
Scholars studying economic inequality in China have maintained that regional inequality and economic divergence across provinces have steadily increased over the past 30 years. New studies have shown that this trend is a statistical aberration; calculations show that instead of quickly and sharply rising, regional inequality has actually decreased, and most recently, remained stable. Our study suggests that China’s unique migratory regime is cruc…
Charting New Territory: Global Unions and Governance Struggles
Informality in action: A relational look at informal work
We conceptualize informal work in relational terms, examining informality through the relations and interactions between and among a set of actors: capitalists, the state, organizations of informal workers, traditional trade unions, individual informal workers. We consider the leading explanations of the persistent growth of informal employment around the world, suggest that three such explanations (survivalist, structuralist, and “disembedded”) …
The politics of intimate citizenship: Sweetheart visas and pandemic-era migration policy in Europe
During the COVID-19 pandemic, border closures separated thousands of people who were in cross-national, unmarried relationships. Sweethearts across the world protested using the refrain and hashtag, #LoveIsNotTourism. In response, twelve European countries introduced sweetheart visas to reunite couples excluded from family-based migration policies. This study compares sweetheart visas to traditional family/marriage visas to assess their significa…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · China (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Economic geography (2 works)