Secondary Precarity in Asia

Family Vulnerability in an Age of Unfree Labour

Bibliographic Data

ID3985603
AuthorsYea (0000-0001-9789-479X, La Trobe University, corresponding author), Sallie Yea (La Trobe University)
Year2019
Volume49
Issue4
Pages552-567
Publication date2019-08-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00472336.2019.1572772
OpenAlexW2914106281
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited34

Scholarly discussions of precarious work have identified and analysed the conditions and structures that produce precarity, the contextual nuances that characterise worker relations across a range of sites and sectors and the possibilities of resistance by the precariat. In these studies, workers are often discussed with inadequate attention to their social embeddedness. Taking workers' embeddedness in social relations and norms as a starting point for analysis, this article explores a secondary aspect of precarity amongst families of exploited workers. This aspect is analysed according to three registers of vulnerability and risk: economic (household and livelihood), intimate (anxiety and negative emotional relations) and physical (mobility and movement). The article outlines this framework through a case study of trafficked fishers and their families from Cambodia and the Philippines. Human trafficking is an extreme form of precarious labour, characterised by unfreedom and hyper-exploitation. The article contributes to the understanding of the trafficking of migrant fishers, which has not seen rigorous academic documentation and is relatively poorly understood in comparison to other forms of trafficking

Criminology · Economic growth · Economics · Embeddedness · Geography · Livelihood · Political science · Precarious work · Precarity · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Work (physics · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Sex work and related issues

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