The Strangers Among Us: Tales from a Global Migrant Worker Movement

by Joseph Atkins

The Strangers Among Us: Tales from a Global Migrant Worker Movement, edited by Joseph B. Atkins, offers readers compelling insight from 10 writers around the world about migrant workers’ rising consciousness of their rights and ability to assert those rights in a global economy that seems to place all power in the hands of mega-corporations. From tobacco workers in North Carolina to Vietnamese domestic workers in Taiwan and the network of organizations that support them, a movement is emerging that will pose a growing challenge to neoliberal rule.

138 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 20, 2017

Reviews

[Tim Mullen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Essays from most continents on the challenges faced by migrant workers, many indistinguishable from modern day slavery, and the appalling conditions they endure. It is no great stretch of the imagination to impose some of these tales of low wages, discrimination and persecution to a post-Brexit Britain governed by a Johnson government that is far to the right of even Margaret Thatcher, and that should give everybody nightmares.