Politics of Precarity
Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences
Description
Precarity has become a buzzword in academia as well as among activists. This collection of essays examining precarity as both a condition of marginality and a basis for activism among urban migrants in China, migrant pensioners and unemployed youth in Sweden and Spain, refugees in Germany, irregular and regular migrants in Southern Europe, Turkey, Russia, the US, and South Africa.
Author Bios
Martin Bak Jørgensen, Ph.D. (2009) Aalborg University, is Associate Professor at Department for Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. He co-edited the book Solidarity Without Borders: Gramscian perspectives on migration and civil society alliances (Pluto Press, 2016).
Carl-Ulrik Schierup is Professor in Ethnic Studies at Linköping University Sweden, and director of the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society. He co-edited Migration, Precarity and Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour (Oxford University Press, 2015).
More Info
ISBN: 9781608468409
Publication date: March 20, 2018
Table of Contents
List of Figures
About the Authors
Preface
1. From ‘Social Exclusion’ to ‘Precarity’. The Becoming Migrant of Labour. An Introduction
Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen
2. A Geneology of Precarity: A Toolbox for Rearticulating Fragmented Social Realities in and out of the Workplace
Maribel Casas-Cortés
3. The Precariat strikes back – precarity struggles in practice
Martin Bak Jørgensen
4. The Precariat: A View from the South
Ronaldo Munck
5. Turkey’s new precariat: Differentiated vulnerability and new alliances
Nazli Senses
6. Multiplex migration and axes of precarization: Swedish retirement migrants to Spain and their service providers
Anna Gavanas and Ines Calzada
7. Employment in crisis: Cyprus and the extension of precarity
Gregoris Ioannou
8. Regulating Illegal Work in China: Immigration Law and Precarious Migrant Status
Mimi Zou
9. Running into nowhere: Educational migration in Beijing and the conundrum of social and existential mobility
Susanne Bregnbæk
10. Necropolitics and the Migrant as a Political Subject of Disgust: The Precarious Everyday of Russia’s Labour Migrants
John Round and Irina Kuznetsova-Morenko
11. Mobile commons and/in precarious spaces: Mapping migrant struggles and social resistance
Nicos Trimikliniotis, Dimitris Parsanoglou & Vassilis Tsianos
12. The Working Class and the city as Political Platform in New York
Peter Schultz Jørgensen
13. Under the Rainbow: Precarity and People Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Carl-Ulrik Schierup
Index
Other books by the authors
