Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I . Configurations of Class
6. 1. Livelihood and Afghan Refugee Workers in Iran 23
7. 2. New Mexican Migrants in a New Age: Globalization, Networks, and Gender in Rural Mexico 41
8. 3. The State and Mobile People at the US-Mexico Border 58
9. Part II. Migrants and Mobilization
10. 4. Political Engagement and Latin Americans in the UK 81
11. 5. Gender and Resisting Fortress Europe in Italy and Spain 105
12. 6. Gender, History, and Political Activism in Spain 125
13. 7. Cell Phones, Politics, and the Philippine Labor Diaspora 138
14. Part III. Complicity and Compliance
15. 8. Making Neoliberal Citizens in Urban France 163
16. 9. A Clash of Histories in Canada’s Auto Industry 185
17. 10. Mexican Worker Demobilization and the Global Economy 205
18. List of Contributors 225
19. Index 229