Global Cities At Work

'The voices of migrant workers come alive in these pages' -- Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia 'A rare but critical window into the scale, nature and contradictions of contemporary immigration into the UK' -- Danny Sriskandarajah, former Head of Migration at the Institute for Public Policy Research 'A very timely book. The description of migration-based divisions in the labour market should be of concern to all policy makers and politicians currently involved in planning a way out of deep recession' -- Don Flynn, Director of the Migrants Rights Network

Jane Wills works at the Department of Geography and The City Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009). Kavita Datta works at the Department of Geography and The City Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009). Yara Evans works at the Department of Geography and The City Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. Her academic background is in Human Geography and she is the author of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009). Joanna Herbert teaches at the Department of Geography and The City Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009). John May is at the Department of Geography and The City Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009). Cathy McIlwaine is a lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield. She has carried out research in the Caribbean and Costa Rica and the Philippines in the areas of gender, ethnicity and urban labour markets. She has also worked as a consultant on structural adjustment and urban poverty at the World Bank. She is the author of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009).

List of tables List of figures List of plates List of acronyms Acknowledgements 1. Deregulation, migration and the new world of work 2. Global city labour markets and London's new migrant division of labour 3. London's low paid foreign-born workers 4. Living and remaking London's ethnic and gender divisions 5. Tactics of survival amongst migrant workers in London 6. Relational lives: Migrants, London and the rest of the world 7. Remaking the city: Immigration and post-secular politics in London today 8 Just geographies of (im)migration Appendices References Index