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Abstract
This paper addresses the deepening vulnerability of both domestic and international migrant workers to contemporary slave labour and the challenges for its eradication in the Brazilian Amazonian state of Mato Grosso. Drawing upon the experiences of 40 workers 'rescued' from contemporary slave labour, the paper shows that the repetitive experiences of contemporary slave labour by subjects and the authoritarian turn in Brazil evokes a conceptual reinterpretation of solidarity and its operationalization. It must move away from the distinct liberal approach in the state paradigm to focus on class and agrarian based solidarity and their understanding of liberation. The paper redefines solidarity as structural and relational notion that engages with the epistemic insight of unfree workers to define the terms of their own freedom, pointing towards humanizing, and self-emancipating alternatives that challenge roots of class oppression and slave labour.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 937-954 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Globalizations |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 6 |
Early online date | 10 Mar 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 18 Aug 2022 |
Keywords
- labour migration
- migrant workers
- unfree labour
- contemporary slave labour
- solidarity
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Securitisation of Nature, Displacement and Unfree labour in Brazil's Amazon
1/10/21 → 30/09/24
Project: Research Fellowship
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So who is building sustainable development? Transforming exploitative labour along southern corridor (GCRF)
Garvey, B. & Stewart, P.
1/09/18 → 28/02/21
Project: Research
Research output
- 1 Citations
- 1 Book
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Informalidade e Proteção dos Trabalhadores Imigrantes: Navegando pelo Humanitarismo, Securitização e Dignidade
Virginio, F. (ed.) & I-miGRa, (ed.), 7 Feb 2022, São Paulo. 92 p.Translated title of the contribution :Informality and Protection of Immigrant Workers: navigating humanitarianism, securitisation, and dignity Research output: Book/Report › Book
Prizes
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
Portes Virginio, Francis Vinicius (Recipient), 23 May 2021
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively