Ce que fait l’assignation à circuler aux temporalités de travail

This paper deals with the coerced relationship to (work) time among migrant labour working in the Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZs) in Jordan. Based on a qualitative survey conducted in production, work and workers’ living places, I explore the effects of circular migration on the temporalities of m...

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Main Author: Taher Labadi
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Language:fra
Published: ADR Temporalités 2021-06-01
Series:Temporalités
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/8220
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description This paper deals with the coerced relationship to (work) time among migrant labour working in the Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZs) in Jordan. Based on a qualitative survey conducted in production, work and workers’ living places, I explore the effects of circular migration on the temporalities of migrants’ work. In an export-oriented textile industry dominated by foreign firms, I suggest that the adjustment of residence time to work time tends to reduce these migrants to their sole function as a labour force. Their confinement in dormitory buildings located close to the factories further accentuates their captivity. The paper (1) situates the long-time frame of Jordanian migration policies by linking them to the liberalization movement that presided over the creation of the QIZs; (2) compares the working conditions – and their effects on work time – of both Jordanian and foreign workers in the QIZs; and (3) illustrates how migrant workers, because they are subjects to a coerced time, are more vulnerable to productivity and availability injunctions than their Jordanian counterparts.
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Temporalités
flexibility
mobility
circular migration
labour temporalities
temporary worker
qualified industrial zones
title Ce que fait l’assignation à circuler aux temporalités de travail
title_full Ce que fait l’assignation à circuler aux temporalités de travail
title_fullStr Ce que fait l’assignation à circuler aux temporalités de travail
title_full_unstemmed Ce que fait l’assignation à circuler aux temporalités de travail
title_short Ce que fait l’assignation à circuler aux temporalités de travail
title_sort ce que fait l assignation a circuler aux temporalites de travail
topic flexibility
mobility
circular migration
labour temporalities
temporary worker
qualified industrial zones
url https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/8220
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