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    Hyper-precarious lives : Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North

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    This paper unpacks the contested inter-connections between neoliberal work and welfare regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers. The concept of precarity is explored as a way of understanding intensifying and insecure post-Fordist work in late capitalism. Migrants are centrally implicated in highly precarious work experiences at the bottom end of labour markets in Global North countries, including becoming trapped in forced labour. Building on existing research on the working experiences of migrants in the Global North, the main part of the article considers three questions. First, what is precarity and how does the concept relate to working lives? Second, how might we understand the causes of extreme forms of migrant labour exploitation in precarious lifeworlds? Third, how can we adequately theorize these particular experiences using the conceptual tools of forced labour, slavery, unfreedom and precarity? We use the concept of ‘hyper-precarity’ alongside notions of a ‘continuum of unfreedom’ as a way of furthering human geographical inquiry into the intersections between various terrains of social action and conceptual debate concerning migrants’ precarious working experiences

    Governing immigrants and citizenship regimes: the case of France, 1950s–1990s

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    Does sustained and increasingly transnational immigration weaken the national character of citizenship regimes? This paper addresses this issue by examining French responses to immigration over a 40-year period. In spite of the changing character of immigration and changing state strategies, all governments throughout this period have sought to maintain the national character by making full access to rights contingent on one's conformity to national values and moralities. As the government made accessing rights dependent on conformity to national norms, the legitimacy of immigrant activists seeking to expand their rights has depended on their abilities to conform to the rules of the national political game. Resisting marginalization therefore requires the assimilation of the immigrants into nationally specific political cultures, which contributes to reinforcing the national character of citizenship regimes. By examining the particular case of France, the paper aims to show how top-down and bottom-up processes by states and activists work in different ways to keep the nation at the center of citizenship regimes in spite of the ongoing and very real challenges presented by transnationalism and globalization

    Some technique-dependent patterns of collateral flow during cerebral angiography

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    During selective transfemoral catheter cerebral angiography, anastomoses between external carotid branches and the vertebral artery, between the vertebral and deep or ascending cervical arteries, and between the middle meningeal and ophthalmic arteries can be demonstrated fairly frequently in patients with no known vascular abnormalities. One can occasionally show bidirectional filling of these anastomoses depending on the vessel injected. Visualization of these anastomoses occurs to a variable degree and is sometimes entirely technique-dependent, reflecting a transient increase in the intraluminal pressure during the injection of contrast medium.-Thus, demonstration of extracranial collateral arterial flow during cerebral angiography should not necessarily be interpreted as an abnormal phenomenon, such as may be seen with arterial occlusive disease, vascular malformation, or a very vascular tumor. Au cours de l'angiographie cérébrale parcathétérismes sélectifs par voie fémorale, peuvent apparaître des anastomoses entre des branches carotidiennes externes et l'artère vertébrale, entre l'artère vertébrale et les artères cérébrales profondes ou ascendantes et entre l'artère méningée moyenne et l'artère ophtalmique. Occasionnellement, on peut mettre en évidence un remplissage bidirectionnel de ces anastomoses, en rapport avec le vaisseau injecté. La visualisation de ces anastomoses se produit de facon variable dépend parfois entièrement de la technique, reflétant une augmentation transitoire de la pression dans l'artère durant l'injection du produit de contraste. Par conséquent, l'observation d'une circulation artérielle collatérale extracrânienne pendant une angiographie cérébrale ne représente pas nécéssairement un phénomène anormal tel qu'on le rencontre dans les troubles artériels occlusifs, dans les malformations vasculaires et dans les tumeurs vascularisées. Während der selektiven transfemoralen Katheter-Angiographie können sich Anastomosen zwischen Externa-Gefäßen und der A. vertebralis, zwischen der A. vertebralis und tiefen oder aufsteigenden cervicalen Arterien und zwischen der A. meningica media und der A. ophthalmica darstellen. Diese Befunde finden sich auch bei Patienten, bei denen keine Gef:aßanomalien vorliegen. Gelegentlich wird ein bidirektionaler Kontrastmitteldurchfluß durch diese Anastomosen nachgewiesen, dabei ist die Kontrastmittelfüllung von der Lokalisation der Kontrastmittelinjektion abhängig. Es zeigt sich also, daß diese unterschiedlichen Durchströmungen technisch bedingt werden können und nicht immer als abnormales Phänomen gedeutet werden können.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/46671/1/234_2004_Article_BF00341594.pd
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