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Book SynopsisPrecarity has become a buzzword in academia as well as among activists. This collection of essays examining precarity as both a condition of marginality and a basis for activism among urban migrants in China, migrant pensioners and unemployed youth in Sweden and Spain, refugees in Germany, irregular and regular migrants in Southern Europe, Turkey, Russia, the US, and South Africa.
Table of ContentsList of Figures About the Authors Preface 1. From ‘Social Exclusion’ to ‘Precarity’. The Becoming Migrant of Labour. An Introduction Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen 2. A Geneology of Precarity: A Toolbox for Rearticulating Fragmented Social Realities in and out of the Workplace Maribel Casas-Cortés 3. The Precariat strikes back – precarity struggles in practice Martin Bak Jørgensen 4. The Precariat: A View from the South Ronaldo Munck 5. Turkey’s new precariat: Differentiated vulnerability and new alliances Nazli Senses 6. Multiplex migration and axes of precarization: Swedish retirement migrants to Spain and their service providers Anna Gavanas and Ines Calzada 7. Employment in crisis: Cyprus and the extension of precarity Gregoris Ioannou 8. Regulating Illegal Work in China: Immigration Law and Precarious Migrant Status Mimi Zou 9. Running into nowhere: Educational migration in Beijing and the conundrum of social and existential mobility Susanne Bregnbæk 10. Necropolitics and the Migrant as a Political Subject of Disgust: The Precarious Everyday of Russia’s Labour Migrants John Round and Irina Kuznetsova-Morenko 11. Mobile commons and/in precarious spaces: Mapping migrant struggles and social resistance Nicos Trimikliniotis, Dimitris Parsanoglou & Vassilis Tsianos 12. The Working Class and the city as Political Platform in New York Peter Schultz Jørgensen 13. Under the Rainbow: Precarity and People Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa Carl-Ulrik Schierup Index
