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Migration and Social Reproduction : Critical Junctions Between Labour, Border and Reproductive Struggles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alberti, Gabriella.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women migrant labor.
- Labor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Migration and Social Reproduction
- PART I: Spaces of work and re/production
- Chapter 2: Digital labour mobility and the crisis of social reproduction: home-based platform workers in Eastern Europe
- Chapter 3: Home as a service: social reproduction, reindustrialization, and the return of worker dormitories in Hungary
- Chapter 4: Living-at-work regimes: task indeterminacy, compression and detachment of social reproduction for female migrant workers
- PART II: Contested policies of social reproduction
- Chapter 5: Unreliable infrastructures of transnational social reproduction for precarious young EU migrants under neoliberal regimes of mobility, work, and welfare
- Chapter 6: (In-)dependent work and affected subjectivities: an analysis of migrant self-employment in post-Fordist northern Italy
- PART III: Migrant experiences of care work
- Chapter 7: Reproducing women workers: migrant nurses in India
- Chapter 8: Border regimes shaping social reproduction: the childcare practices of migrant working mothers
- Postface Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-03-538491-4
- 1-03-535690-2
- 9781035356904
- OCLC:
- 1570552323
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