Bulletin n. 3/2008
February 2009
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Woolfson Charles, Likic-Brboric Branka
    Migrants and the Unequal Burdening of “Toxic” Risk: Towards a New Global Governance Regime
    in Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe , vol. 16, n. 3, December ,  2008 ,  291-308
    The article addresses the changing discourse that frames the neo-liberal regulatory agenda, in the context of the current financial crisis and related, system-threatening “toxic” risk. In this, the authors claim that a flexible mix of regulation/de-regulation and self-regulation is reflected in an asymmetric architecture of multi-level governance that is based on an unequal burden sharing of risk, involving the commodification of risk and an imposition of this burden on the socially weakest groups. Migrant workers are identified as being most vulnerable to the condition of precariousness due to “double asymmetry of hyperprecarity”. The article identifies class-biased practices of regulatory failure and the counter-movements that they have generated around the demand for “decent work”. It is claimed that the present systemic failure has created only a “window of opportunity” for the working class and civil society actors to promote de-commodification of labour and equalisation of risk-burdening in the inception of a new regulatory contest on both national and trans-national level.
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