The role of recruitment agencies in imagining and producing the 'good' migrant

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 145-167

  Findlay, Allan ^a   McCollum, David ^a   Shubin, Sergei ^b   Apsite, Elina ^c   Krisjane, Zaiga ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

bodily goodness; embodied transnationalism; good worker; knowledge practices; labour migration; migrant division of labour

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRANT WORKER; POLICY MAKING; RECRUITMENT (EMPLOYMENT);

LATVIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84874433434     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2012.737008     Document Type: Article

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