Labour Migration, Social Movements and Regional Integration
A Comparative Study of the Role of Labour Movements in the Social Transformation of the Economic Community of West African States and the Southern African Development Community
Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen
Excellent Dissertation Prize
MSc Development Management (2015)
Abstract
Through a comparative analysis informed by critical IPE, the paper investigates how labour migration has impacted labour movements’ agency in the regional communities of West and Southern Africa. It argues that in a time of increased migration and the emergence of regional governance, labour unions must cooperate transnationally to adequately address issues of poverty and social injustice. It finds that labour migration has to a greater extent affected labour movements towards transnational agency in West Africa than in Southern Africa, which consequently reduces the potential for a more socially just and inclusive regionalism in Southern Africa, compared to West Africa.
Keywords
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Labour Migration
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Social Movements
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Regional Integration
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Economic Community
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West African States
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