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Inside the Global Supply Chain: Transnational Migrant Labor, Commodity Circulation, and Digitized Economies across Taiwan
Taiwanese ports are paradigmatic sites to observe the new shapes of our globalised economic system. If global corporations are mostly pictured as the major actors of the global supply chain, in this talk I look at the invisible actors who daily contribute to its functioning: migrant maritime workers, by large employed and exploited in the shipping sector. Drawing on ethnographic work in the Taiwanese ports of Kaohsiung, Bali, and Kinmen, I examine the social, economic, logistic, and digital resources Indonesian, Chinese, and Filipino maritime workers mobilize to cope with inequality. To achieve upward social mobility, migrants get ‘connected’. Using online applications, and cooperating with multiple actors, on material and digitized economic circuits, they trade ‘small commodities’ and produce novel transnational and digital economies. Through a focus on the invisible workers of the global supply chain and their daily experiences of global work, and informal commerce, this talk sheds new light on the diversity of global economies, and on the role of digital migrant connectivity in shaping global trade and globalization.
Date:
4 March 2024, 17:00
Venue:
Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details:
Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford
Speaker:
Dr Beatrice Zani (French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS))
Organising department:
Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
Organisers:
Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford),
Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)
Host:
Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme
Part of:
Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
https://www.area-studies.ox.ac.uk/event/inside-global-supply-chain-transnational-migrant-labor-commodity-circulation-and-digitized-eco
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Bo-Jiun Jing
