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6 × 9 SPINE: 0.561 FLAPS: 0 G LB EA E D S OA N International migrants’ home countries often play an integral part in protecting SCALING HS their citizens’ labor and human rights abroad. At the same time, institutions such O C W as labor unions, worker centers, and legal aid groups are among the most visible A A actors holding governments of immigrant destinations accountable. Focusing on DL Mexico and the United States, Scaling Migrant Worker Rights analyzes how these VOI MIGRANT WORKER N C organizations pressure governments to defend migrants. The result is a multi- AG T layered picture of the impediments to migrant worker rights and the possibilities E SM for their realization. C OI RIGHTS LG “Highly original and timely, this book shines a light on underexplored actors in the labor rights LAR and protection enforcement process.” —LEAH F. VOSKO, author of Disrupting Deportability: BOA Transnational Workers Organize RN A “A very robust and nuanced empirical analysis documenting how co-enforcement mecha- TET HOW ADVOCATES COLLABORATE AND CONTEST STATE POWER nisms across transnational civil society, consulates, and national governments work to imple- A W N ment existing labor rights protections.” —ALEXANDRA DÉLANO ALONSO, author of Mexico DO and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848 C OR “This important and innovative work provides a nuanced, rich, and detailed meso-analysis of NK T institutions and institutional collaboration in Mexico and the US.” —NANCY PLANKEY-VIDELA, ESE author of We Are in This Dance Together: Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Gar- TR S ment Firm TR A TI EG XÓCHITL BADA is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of P OH Illinois Chicago. She is author of Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán: From Local W T to Transnational Civic Engagement. E RS SHANNON GLEESON is Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History at the School of Indus- trial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She is author of Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS WWW.UCPRESS.EDU A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, ISBN: 978-0-520-38445-3 University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Cover illustration: U.E.-F.A.T. Hands in Solidarity, Hands of Freedom. Mural at the 9 780520 384453 United Electrical Workers union hall in Chicago, Illinois. The mural was painted in 1997 by Daniel Manrique, a Tepito Arte Acá muralist from Mexico City, as part of a crossborder mural project between the United Electrical Workers union XÓCHITL BADA AND SHANNON GLEESON and Frente Auténtico del Trabajo in Mexico City. Luminos is the Open Access monograph publishing program from UC Press. Luminos provides a framework for preserving and reinvigorating monograph publishing for the future and increases the reach and visibility of important scholarly work. Titles published in the UC Press Luminos model are published with the same high standards for selection, peer review, production, and marketing as those in our traditional program. www.luminosoa.org Scaling Migrant Worker Rights Scaling Migrant Worker Rights How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power Xóchitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS University of California Press Oakland, California © 2023 by Xóchitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses. Suggested citation: Bada, X., and Gleeson, S. Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.138 Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress. isbn 978-0-520-38445-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-520-38446-0 (ebook) 28 27 26 25 24 23 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 We dedicate this book to all low-wage undocumented workers. Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations Used in Text xv 1. Introduction: Constructing Portable Rights for Migrant Workers 1 2. The Mexican Consular Network as an Advocacy Institution 19 3. The Sending State and Co-enforcement: Mexico’s Role in Brokering Immigrant Worker Claims Making 63 4. Advocacy and Accountability in State–Civil Society Relations 97 5. The Strategies of Transnational Labor Coalitions and Networks 121 6. Conclusion: Scaling Migrant Worker Rights 151 Notes 169 Appendix. Key Institutions, Instruments, and Actors in Transnational Labor Regulation and Consular Affairs 181 References 183 Index 213
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