EAN: 9783110639728

BE OUR GUEST - WILLIAM TERRY GEBUNDEN

Adopting a geographic lens to examine the employment of guestworkers in the United States  Be
Our Guest offers readers the most comprehensive analysis of guestwork in tourism that has been
produced to date. In weaving together the constellation of political and economic factors that
exist across multiple scales  the case is made for how and why so many tourism-dependent areas
of the United States have developed a dependency on temporary foreign workforces. Taking a
holistic approach  special emphasis is placed on the economic histories of these areas and
shifting patterns of employment  seasonality  gentrification  and related housing shortages.
Throughout  the voices of stakeholders involved in every aspect of guestwork are included:
human resources managers battling labor shortages  town planners mitigating workforce housing
shortages  and attorneys and advocates helping to directly assist migrant workers and affect
policy changes. These perspectives are coupled with detailed analysis of state policies
regarding guestworker visa programs and labor market stress to illustrate a vivid picture of
the precarious lives of the migrant laborers who arrive in the United States. Be Our Guest
serves to specifically address a lacuna in critical tourism studies and the growing concern
among practitioners over workforce quality and supply. Nevertheless  it will benefit everyone
with an interest in issues of labor migration  precarity  housing policy  and immigration
reform.

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