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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Observations on the fragility of global migration.- Chapter 3. Immobilized Markets: Perception, experience, and response of migration brokers to state-induced immobility.- Chapter 4. Fragile as a class: Marxist scholars’ views of the ‘Gastarbeiter’ in West Germany in the global 1970s.- Chapter 5. Contingency and fragility in mass immigration to São Paulo coffee economy (1880-1930).- Chapter 6. The neocolonial securitisation of mobilities: (Re)producing (in)fragilities, (in)securities, and (im)mobilities.- Chapter 7. Citizenship, local history and immigrant fragility: Reactions to Venezuelans, Northeasterners and Haitians in Brazil.- Chapter 8. Negotiating the citizenship-regime: Fragility and the example of sanctuary cities in the U.S.- Chapter 9. Intersectional solidarities in resisting intersectional fragilities: Kurdish migrant women’s activism in Germany.- Chapter 10. Family figurations becoming fragile in forced migration processes.