Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Jakobsen, Thomas Sætre"
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Beyond proletarianisation
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From the Workplace to the Household: Migrant Labor and Accumulation without Dispossession
Jakobsen, Thomas Sætre (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Working class studies on China commonly use the lens of proletarianization to understand class formation among peasant workers who move into cities to work in China’s manufacturing sector. However, in the decade since the ... -
Impacts of labor migration for rural householdsin a particular setting in southwest China:: Resource Distribution and Second‐Generation Migrants
Jakobsen, Thomas Sætre (Master thesis, 2009)This thesis studies the impact of out‐migration of people from rural households in a particular setting in Yunnan Province, China, and the distribution of resources between these households. Household interviews were ... -
Labour Migration, Employer Preferences and Symbolic Boundary Work
Jakobsen, Thomas Sætre; Sæther, Inga (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)A critical stream of scholarship from North America and Europe, on employer preferences for low-wage labour migrants, suggest that the discourse of ‘the migrant work ethic’ works as a euphemism for the exploitability of ... -
Labour migration, precarious work and liminality
Scott, Sam; Jakobsen, Thomas Sætre; Rye, Johan Fredrik; Visser, M Anne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Liminality, as originally conceived by anthropologists, is a temporary ‘in-between’ state that acts as a bridge, connecting old roles to new roles, and resulting in a desired new state. The article applies this concept to ... -
The lived experiences of female heads in Malawi - An exploration of their health care accessibility by making use of a triangulated access model
Konijn, Emerentia (Esther) (Master thesis, 2018)Ensuring that everyone has good accessibility to health services remains a challenge, especially in developing country contexts, even though the concept of health care accessibility has been extensively investigated in the ... -
Living in Transition: Peasant-Workers Working Between Farmland and the Workplaces of the Urban in Post-Deng China
Jakobsen, Thomas Sætre (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:178, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Summary of the thesis: Deng Xiaoping China´s ascendancy into the "workshop of the world" is largely premised upon the supply of cheap labor from the countryside. The 277 million strong army of peasant-workers generally ... -
Rural-urban migration : causes, migrants' town livelihood activities and social capital in Berehet District, Ethiopia
Abebe, Adefris Tefera (Master thesis, 2014)Ranging from the smallest local to the largest international migration is a substance in the process of globalization which drives the present economic, political, social, cultural and technological engines of individuals ...