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How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism today. Global "Body Shopping" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on in-depth field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, Xiang Biao offers a richly detailed analysis of the India-based global labor management practice known as "body shopping." In this practice, a group of consultants--body shops--in different countries works together to recruit IT workers. Body shops then farm out workers to clients as project-based labor; and upon a project's completion they either place the workers with a different client or "bench" them to await the next placement. Thus, labor is managed globally to serve volatile capital movement. Underpinning this practice are unequal socioeconomic relations on multiple levels. While wealth in the New Economy is created in an increasingly abstract manner, everyday realities--stock markets in New York, benched IT workers in Sydney, dowries in Hyderabad, and women and children in Indian villages--sustain this flexibility.

Labor mobility --- Electronic data processing personnel --- Mobility, Labor --- Migration, Internal --- Labor supply --- Labor turnover --- Computer industry --- Employees --- India --- Emigration and immigration.

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Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xiang Biao, a social anthropologist, and Wu Qi, a rising journalist, the book probes how China has reached its current stage and how young people can make changes. The conversations touch on issues of mobility, education, family, relations between the self and the authority, centers and margins, China, and the world. The Chinese version was named the “most impactful book of 2021” by Douban, China’s premier website for rating books, films, and music. The English version is translated by David Ownby, who also penned an introduction. Xiang Biao is a social anthropologist who was born and educated in China and now the director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Wu Qi is a journalist and an editor of ‘One Way Street,’ a Chinese literary magazine. David Ownby is a full professor, Department of History, Centre d’études de l’Asie de l’Est, Université de Montréal.

Political science—Study and teaching. --- China—History. --- Globalization. --- Political Education. --- History of China. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- China --- Development --- Political --- Chinese Intellectual Life --- Intellectual

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Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged or demanded the return of emigrants. In this anthology, cases of return migration in Asia provide the ground for rethinking relations between nation-states and transnational mobility.

Return migration --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Migration, Return --- Emigration and immigration --- Repatriation --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Etnografie: Azië --- Asia --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Emigration and immigration. --- History --- China --- India --- Japan --- Overseas Chinese --- United States

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Precarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens.The editors ask: What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens, such as undocumented migrants, guest workers, permanent residents, refugees, detainees, and stateless people? How is the concept of citizenship, based on assumptions of deservingness, legality, and productivity, challenged when people of various and competing statuses and differential citizenship practices interact with each other, revealing their co-constitutive connections? How is citizenship valued or revalued when labor and social precarity impact those who seemingly have formal rights and those who seemingly or effectively do not? This book interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, insider/outsider, entitled/unentitled, “legal”/“illegal,” and deserving/undeserving in order to explore the fluidity--that is, the dynamism and malleability--of the spectra of belonging.

Aliens --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Belonging (Social psychology). --- Citizenship --- Emigration and immigration law --- Immigrants --- Marginality, Social. --- Social conditions --- Social aspects --- Citizenship, Democratic, Chain Migration, Racialization, Central Americans, United States, Globalization, Sacred Land, Tibetan Refugee-Citizenship, refugee, Migrant Labor, Labor Precarity, immigration, Migrant Domestic Work, Temporary Labor Migration, singapore, Urban Exclusion, Colombia, Legal status, Black Denizenship, Noncitizenship, global capitalism, noncitizens, alienage, permanent residents, guest workers, stateless people.

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