Time–space control: explaining subnational variation in Thailand's guestwork regimes.
How do states control labor migration? Furthering global trends, nation states increasingly seek to include foreigners in labor markets while excluding them from settling. Yet, dominant theories maintain a limited conception of migration control as primarily immigrant restriction, especially in the...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 103; no. 4; pp. 1489 - 1508 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2025
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