| Description |
1 online resource (343 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 97 |
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Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 97.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration.
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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Migrant labor.
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Emigration and Immigration
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Transients and Migrants
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migrant workers.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Emigration and immigration
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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Migrant labor
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schierup, Carl-Ulrik.
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Jørgensen, Martin Bak, 1973-
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| LC no. |
2016039607 |
| ISBN |
9789004329706 |
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9004329706 |
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