Neoliberalism and the Regulation of Global Labor Mobility

Bibliographic Data

ID9754979
AuthorsHenk Overbeek (Free University, Amsterdam, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume581
Issue1
Pages74-90
Publication date2002-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716202058001008
OpenAlexW4233417954
LanguageEN
Citations received35
References cited24

Globalization involves the international expansion of market relations and the global pursuit of economic liberalism. The essential factor in this process is commodification, including the commodification of human labor. Globalization integrates an increasing proportion of the world population directly into capitalist labor markets and locks national and regional labor markets into an integrated global labor market. We are on the threshold of global initiatives to shift the balance even further, especially regarding the management of global migration flows. The answer cannot be a return to strictly national forms of migration control and should not be a complete capitulation to market-driven regulation of migration. One possible answer is a new, multilateral, democratically screened, global migration regime to set forth and guarantee the general principles governing the regulation of transnational migrations, ensure proper coordination between regional and national migration regimes, and call into existence new institutional forms of transnational democratic governance

Commodification · Corporate governance · Democracy · Economic system · Economics · Globalization · Human migration · Labor relations · Labour economics · Market economy · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · International Labor and Employment Law · Labor Movements and Unions