Labour Migration in the Global Division of Labour
Migrant workers in Mauritius 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9955052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Lincoln (0000-0003-2634-922X, University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 129-156 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Migration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2008.00506.x |
| OpenAlex | W1993046052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 19 |
Workers who temporarily leave their country to perform semi‐ and unskilled work under contract in another country are a distinct category of labour migrants in the global division of labour (GDL). The small island of Mauritius is a relatively new destination for contractual international labour migrants. The Mauritian state is intimately involved in the labour migration system, playing a mediating role in positioning the island within the GDL and trying to optimise the routing of global production chains through Mauritius. The migrants originate mainly in China and India and are overwhelmingly concentrated in the island’s clothing and textile factories where they now comprise one‐fifth of the export processing zone workforce. The migrant space occupied by expatriate workers in Mauritius is tightly circumscribed, with little social interaction between them and Mauritian society. A chronicle of their collective protest between 2002 and 2005 highlights grievances that arise from the conditions they face as migrants. Pointing largely to the failure of industrial relations institutions, and having stirred xenophobic sentiments, these protests represent a catalyst for reform. While the numerical incidence and scale of labour migration to small islands may be small, their significance for GDL analysis and for the politics of migration demands attention
Clothing · Division of labour · Economic growth · Economics · Expatriate · Factory (object-oriented programming · Labour economics · Market economy · Migrant workers · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics · Workforce · Economic Zones and Regional Development · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics
Geographies and Histories of Unfreedom
Extensive legal exceptionalism, an administrative export-processing zone and urbanization in Mauritius
Contemporary migration intentions in the Maldives
Producing scientific knowledge on migration
New Immigrant Destinations in Global Context
Bureaucracy and the politics of time in state-business relations
Un salariat au-delà du marché de l'emploi
Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius (African Studies)
International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain
A New System of Slavery
Introduction
Globalization, Poverty and Inequality
Export processing zones in Madagascar
The African Growth and Opportunity Act and the Global Commodity Chain for Clothing
Structure, process and Indian culture in Trinidad
Conceptualizing Simultaneity
Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa
The Coming of Age of Island Studies
Gender and Industrialisation
Migration and remittances in island microstates
The Developmental State in Mauritius
Beyond the plantation
The global clothing production system
Transnational Migration and the Transformation of Gender Relations
Transnationalism in Question
| Citations per year | 0.54 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |