Precarious Lives: Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 4438
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Policy Press
- ISBN
- 9781447306900
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- ‘Precarious Lives’ represents the first dedicated study into the experiences of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK. The book draws on original evidence generated through in-depth interviews with refugees and asylum seekers, achieved through extensive ethnographic outreach to build trust and secure access to an illegalised group. Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, links between asylum and forced labour are uncovered, offering new analyses of the intersection of immigration status and labour exploitation enmeshed in a broader picture of modern slavery produced through globalised working conditions.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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