Politics of Precarity: Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences (Studies in Critical Social Sciences) (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 97)

In Politics of Precarity: Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences, edited by Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen, the conditions of precarity caused by neoliberal globalization are linked to migrant struggles and experiences across the globe. 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 has co-edited Migration, Precarity and Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour (Oxford University Press, 2015). Martin Bak Jørgensen, Ph.D. (2009) Aalborg University, is Associate Professor at Department for Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. He has co-edited the book Solidarity Without Borders: Gramscian perspectives on migration and civil society alliances (Pluto Press, 2016). Politics of Precarity: Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 About the Authors......Page 10 1 From ‘Social Exclusion’ to ‘Precarity’. The Becoming-migrant of Labour: An Introduction......Page 16 2 A Geneology of Precarity: A Toolbox for Rearticulating Fragmented Social Realities In and Out of the Workplace......Page 45 3 The Precariat Strikes Back – Precarity Struggles in Practice......Page 67 4 Globalisation, Labour and the ‘Precariat’: Old Wine in New Bottles?......Page 93 5 Rethinking Migration in the Context of Precarity: The Case of Turkey......Page 114 6 Multiplex Migration and Aspects of Precarisation: Swedish Retirement Migrants to Spain and their Service Providers......Page 133 7 Employment in Crisis: Cyprus and the Extension of Precarity......Page 153 8 Migrant Precarity under China’s New Immigration Law Regime......Page 175 9 Running into Nowhere: Educational Migration in Beijing and the Conundrum of Social and Existential Mobility......Page 194 10 Necropolitics and the Migrant as a Political Subject of Disgust: The Precarious Everyday of Russia’s Labour Migrants......Page 213 11 Mobile Commons and/in Precarious Spaces: Mapping Migrant Struggles and Social Resistance......Page 239 12 The Working Class and the City as Political Platform in New York......Page 260 13 Under the Rainbow. Migration, Precarity and People Power in Postapartheid South Africa......Page 291 Index......Page 332 In Politics of Precarity: Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences , edited by Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen, the contributing authors look into precarity. Precarity has become a buzzword in as well academia as among activist. The book depicts precarity as being both a condition and a mobilizing force for resistance. The volume asks questions that investigate conditions and resistance across diverse cases such as first generation urbanites in China, migrant pensioners and unemployed youth in Sweden and Spain, refugees in Germany, irregular and regular migrants in Southern Europe, Turkey, Russia the United States and South Africa. Contributors are: Susanne Bregnbæk, Ines Calzada, Maribel Casas-Cortés, Anna Gavanas, Gregoris Ioannou, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Irina Kuznetsova-Morenko, Ronaldo Munck, Dimitris Parsanoglou, John Round, Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Peter Schultz Jørgensen, Nazlı Şenses, Vassilis Tsianos, Nicos Trimikliniotis, and Mimi Zou