Objective
The workings of globalization depend on international labor migration, a phenomenon that is hardly recent but that is,
instead, embedded in histories of colonialism, decolonization and neocolonization, divergent conditions of democracy,
totalitarianism, militarism and exploitation, as well as in persistent structures of economic disparity among the formal
colonial powers and the decolonized world. Contemporary labor migration—the flows of people in search of labor crossing
national boundaries, deeply impacts and transforms the social, economic, political, cognitive and affective landscapes of
contemporary life. This project will consider these transformations by examining the transnational migrant labor of workers
from Romania such as it unfolds at two central sites of global capitalism, London-U.K. and New York-U.S. The research will
feature an historical analysis of the immigrant Romanian labor presence at these sites, while its time frame covers the
interval starting in 1989 up to the present day. While labor migration has been a subject of interest for economists, political
theorists, geographers, anthropologists and cultural theorists alike, its relevance to affective theory and neoliberal critiques
have only recently been addressed. My project seeks to address an analytic gap that refers to the affective dimension of
migrational labor by considering not only the economic, political, and historical contexts, but also the impact that immigrants’
transnational journeys in search for work and their landing in new spaces have on their intimate lives alongside co-nationals
as well as alongside other dwellers in the global city. The research project will draw upon recent global changes, more
precisely on the global economic crisis, the continued neoliberalization of economies and the pressures towards
securitization that affect the cities of London and New York and thus implicitly impact on the lives of immigrant laborers.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- social sciences sociology social issues social inequalities racial inequality
- social sciences other social sciences development studies development theories global development studies globalization
- social sciences sociology demography human migrations
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Programme(s)
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Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2014
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G1 1XQ Glasgow
United Kingdom
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