Migration and social reproduction : critical junctions between labour, border and reproductive struggles / edited by Gabriella Alberti (Professor of International Labour Migration, University of Leeds, UK), Lisa Riedner (Junior Research Group Leader, Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) and Gwyneth Lonergan (Assistant Professor in Criminology and Sociology, Northumbria University, UK).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alberti, Gabriella, editor.

Riedner, Lisa, editor.

Lonergan, Gwyneth, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Social mobility.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"This timely book examines the unique relationship between migration, labour, and social reproduction in light of current global crises. Leading experts outline how border processes, precarious welfare states, labour markets and gendered and racialised conventions influence the labour and social reproduction of migrant workers. Contributing authors present empirical findings from research conducted in a variety of contexts, exploring the struggles and opportunities of different groups of migrant workers: from female nurses in India to workers impacted by the dormitory regimes and remote platform work in Eastern and Southern Europe. They advocate for a more inclusive definition of reproductive labour, highlighting how states and employers manage mobility at work while foregrounding migrants' everyday strategies - both collective and individual - of survival, resistance, and care. Concluding with a postface written by eminent luminaries of the field, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson, this book demonstrates that social reproduction is critical to a transnational future of emancipation, liberation and social justice. Migration and Social Reproduction is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the field of social science, namely sociology, social policy, politics, migration studies, and race studies. The empirical research presented in this book will also be of great benefit to policy researchers and practitioners"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction to migration and social reproduction / Gabriella Alberti, Lisa Riedner and Gwyneth Lonergan

Part I: Spaces of work and re/production

2. Digital labour mobility and the crisis of social reproduction: Home-based platform workers in eastern Europe / Mira Wallis

3. Home as a service: Social reproduction, reindustrialization, and the return of worker dormitories in Hungary / Olena Fedyuk and Tibor T. Meszmann

4. Living-at-work regimes: Task indeterminacy, compression and detachment of social reproduction for female migrant workers / Valeria Piro and Francesca Alice Vianello

Part II: Contested policies of social reproduction

5. Unreliable infrastructures of transnational social reproduction for precarious young EU migrants under neoliberal regimes of mobility, work, and welfare / Anna Simola

6. (in-)dependent work and affected subjectivities: An analysis of migrant self-employment in post-fordist northern Italy / Marika Pierdicca

Part III: Migrant experiences of care work

7. Reproducing women workers: Migrant nurses in India / Mithun Som and Rani Rohini Raman

8. Border regimes shaping social reproduction: The childcare practices of migrant working mothers / Anne-Iris Romens

Postface / Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035356904 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.