Full Description
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.
Contributing authors present empirical findings from research conducted in a variety of contexts, exploring the struggles and opportunities of different groups of migrant workers: from female nurses in India to workers impacted by the dormitory regimes and remote platform work in Eastern and Southern Europe. They advocate for a more inclusive definition of reproductive labour, highlighting how states and employers manage mobility at work while foregrounding migrants' everyday strategies - both collective and individual - of survival, resistance, and care. Concluding with a postface written by eminent luminaries of the field, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson, this book demonstrates that social reproduction is critical to a transnational future of emancipation, liberation and social justice.
Migration and Social Reproduction is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the field of social science, namely sociology, social policy, politics, migration studies, and race studies. The empirical research presented in this book will also be of great benefit to policy researchers and practitioners.
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction to Migration and Social Reproduction 1
Gabriella Alberti, Lisa Riedner and Gwyneth Lonergan
PART I SPACES OF WORK AND RE/PRODUCTION
2 Digital labour mobility and the crisis of social reproduction:
home-based platform workers in Eastern Europe 30
Mira Wallis
3 Home as a service: social reproduction, reindustrialization,
and the return of worker dormitories in Hungary 54
Olena Fedyuk and Tibor T. Meszmann
4 Living-at-work regimes: task indeterminacy, compression and
detachment of social reproduction for female migrant workers 76
Valeria Piro and Francesca Alice Vianello
PART II CONTESTED POLICIES OF SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
5 Unreliable infrastructures of transnational social reproduction
for precarious young EU migrants under neoliberal regimes
of mobility, work, and welfare 99
Anna Simola
6 (In-)dependent work and affected subjectivities: an analysis of
migrant self-employment in post-Fordist northern Italy 120
Marika Pierdicca
PART III MIGRANT EXPERIENCES OF CARE WORK
7 Reproducing women workers: migrant nurses in India 145
Mithun Som and Rani Rohini Raman
8 Border regimes shaping social reproduction: the childcare
practices of migrant working mothers 172
Anne-Iris Romens
Postface 191
Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson
