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The turnover of labour and its significance for workers and employers has usually been considered at the organizational level, as employer-led or individual exit behaviour. Only seldom has labour mobility been studied in relation to migration and the mobility practices of migrant workers across workplaces and communities. Drawing from labour process, the autonomy of migration, and social reproduction theories, as well as decades of qualitative research on migrant working lives, this book contributes to debates in employment relations by exploring the relationship between worker turn-over and international migration. Adopting a global and historical perspective, the authors explore how labour mobility is managed from the top by states and employers, and experienced and enacted by migrant workers from the bottom up, against the background of tighter migration policies and workplace controls. The authors challenge long-established approaches in industrial relations that see labour mobility as detrimental to the development of collective forms of voice in the workplace by showing how migrant workers’ mobilities as practices of refusal of precarious conditions may defy management strategies of control, the exploitation of workers’ insecurity, and their gendered and racialized position in the labour process. Uncovering both the individual and collective actions of migrants inside and outside the workplace, the book develops a new understanding of migrants’ everyday mobilities as creative and life-sustaining strategies of social reproduction and labour conflict, while envisaging new approaches to migration inside trade unions and social movements.
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