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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction. Migrant labour in the platform economy. The intersection of labour digitization, platform capitalism, migration, and resistance Francesco Della Puppa, Dipsita Dhar, Nicola Montagna.- Part 1: Vulnerability and inherent precarity of migrant workers in Gig Economy.- Chapter 2: Migrant Labour in the Greek Gig Economy Lefteris Kretsos and Vassilis Charitsis.- Chapter 3: Migrant Work and Informal Circuits of Labour in the Gig-economy: the case of digital caporalato Gianmarco Peterlongo.- Chapter 4: “Binding-flexibility” in the platform economy. Some reflections from the platform-mediated food delivery service in Venice Giorgio Pirina.- Chapter 5: Wake Up – Deliver – Repeat: and the Delivery-Partners Suddhabrata Deb Roy.- Chapter 6: Vulnerability and resistance among digital and platform (im)migrant workers in Portugal Isabel Roque.- Part 2: Strategies of resistance.- Chapter 7: Organising Migrant and BAME Platform Workers in London: The Intersection Between Agency, Collective Resistance, and Self-exploitation in the Case of Food Delivery Riders Paolo Borghi, Annalisa Murgia.- Chapter 8: Migration, precarity and solidarity among migrant gig workers in China’s food delivery and ride-hailing sectors Yang Zhou.- Chapter 9: Can inter union collaborations help in cushioning the migrant labour in a platform capital regime and an increasingly gated society? Dipsita Dhar, Soham Bhattacharya, Ashique Ali T.
