Politics of precarity : migrant conditions, struggles and experiences / edited by Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Martin Bak Jørgensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schierup, Carl-Ulrik, editor.

Jørgensen, Martin Bak, editor.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 97.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 1573-4234 ; Volume 97

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social--Political aspects.

Marginality, Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen

From ‘Social Exclusion’ to ‘Precarity’. The Becoming-migrant of Labour: An Introduction / Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen

A Geneology of Precarity: A Toolbox for Rearticulating Fragmented Social Realities In and Out of the Workplace / Maribel Casas-Cortés

The Precariat Strikes Back – Precarity Struggles in Practice / Martin Bak Jørgensen

Globalisation, Labour and the ‘Precariat’: Old Wine in New Bottles? / Ronaldo Munck

Rethinking Migration in the Context of Precarity: The Case of Turkey / Nazlı Şenses

Multiplex Migration and Aspects of Precarisation: Swedish Retirement Migrants to Spain and their Service Providers / Anna Gavanas and Ines Calzada

Employment in Crisis: Cyprus and the Extension of Precarity / Gregoris Ioannou

Migrant Precarity under China’s New Immigration Law Regime / Mimi Zou

Running into Nowhere: Educational Migration in Beijing and the Conundrum of Social and Existential Mobility / Susanne Bregnbæk

Necropolitics and the Migrant as a Political Subject of Disgust: The Precarious Everyday of Russia’s Labour Migrants / John Round and Irina Kuznetsova-Morenko

Mobile Commons and/in Precarious Spaces: Mapping Migrant Struggles and Social Resistance / Nicos Trimikliniotis , Dimitris Parsanoglou and Vassilis Tsianos

The Working Class and the City as Political Platform in New York / Peter Schultz Jørgensen

Under the Rainbow. Migration, Precarity and People Power in Postapartheid South Africa / Carl-Ulrik Schierup

Index / Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 19, 2016).

ISBN:

90-04-32970-6

OCLC:

960759729

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004329706 DOI