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Doucette: Entire MTU leadership arrested
Znet Article, April, 23 2008
Jamie Doucette
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On Tuesday, November 27th, the entire executive of South Korea’s Migrant Trade Union was arrested by immigration officials in three co-coordinated morning actions targeting these migrants at their places of work and residence.
Doucette: South Korea: Labour strife escalates as new labour law comes into effect
Znet Article, July, 19 2007
Jamie Doucette
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South Korea: Labour strife escalates as new labour law comes into effect
Doucette: Korean Neo-liberalism and Empire
Znet Article, July, 11 2006
Jamie Doucette
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Anti-corporate globalization protests are scheduled in Korea this week as part of larger efforts by Korean social movements to confront the effects of neo-liberalism on the Korean economy and society. The protests are in response to the Korea-US F...
Doucette: From APEC to WTO: trajectories of protest in Korea and East Asia
Znet Article, December, 07 2005
Jamie Doucette
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Angry protests in Busan, South Korea during an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference there in November have alarmed Hong Kong police preparing for a mid-December World Trade Organization ministerial conference. Hong Kong police fe...
Doucette: Against Flexibilization: South Korean Unions Battle Against The Expansion Of Irregular Work
Znet Article, May, 14 2005
Jamie Doucette
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The fight against the expansion of irregular work to wide segments of the Korean workforce entered a new phase last week with the postponement of a series of government-initiated bills expanding the terms and conditions under which companies may u...
Doucette: Migrant Workers and the Politics of Resentment
Znet Article, December, 01 2004
Jamie Doucette
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The Equality Trade Union – Migrants’ Branch (ETU-MB), a trade union of largely undocumented migrant workers in South Korea, ended its 380 day long sit-in in front of downtown Seoul’s Myeongdong Cathedral on Sunday. Their si...
Doucette: Migrant Workers and the Politics of Resentment
Znet Article, December, 01 2004
Jamie Doucette
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The Equality Trade Union – Migrants’ Branch (ETU-MB), a trade union of largely undocumented migrant workers in South Korea, ended its 380 day long sit-in in front of downtown Seoul’s Myeongdong Cathedral on Sunday. Their si...
Doucette: The Last Public Space?
Znet Article, June, 12 2004
Jamie Doucette
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"Apparently the government has posted undercover immigration cops outside of the public baths," a friend with the Equality Trade Union - Migrants' Branch (ETU-MB) informed me over the phone from South Korea yesterday. The ETU-MB recently celebra...
Doucette: S. Korean Repression
Znet Article, February, 23 2004
Jamie Doucette
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Last Sunday February 16th, Samar Thapa was on his way to deliver solidarity flyers to a group of Filipino activists in Seoul's Tae Hak No district when he was nabbed by plainclothes immigration officers and immediately hustled away to a detention ...
Doucette: Migrant Workers and the Struggle for Political Space
Znet Article, January, 28 2004
Jamie Doucette
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The South Korean government has decided to solve the problem of politicized migrants with a mixture of indirect negotiation and brutal force. Over the last ten weeks of their sit-in outside the Myong-Dong Cathedral in downtown Seoul, South Korea...
Doucette: Biting The Arms Of The State: Migrant Workers Continue To Fight
Znet Article, January, 08 2004
Jamie Doucette
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Biting The Arms Of The State: Migrant Workers Continue To Fight
Doucette: Towards a Transnational Grassroots:
Znet Article, January, 05 2004
Jamie Doucette
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Migrant Workers in South Korea have ju...
