Politics Of Precarity: Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences

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Precarity 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.

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Carl-Ulrik Schierup is Professor in Ethnic Studies at Linkping University Sweden, and director of the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society. He co-edited Migration, Precarity and Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour (Oxford University Press, 2015). Martin Bak Jrgensen, Ph.D. (2009) Aalborg University, is Associate Professor at Department for Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. He co-edited the book Solidarity Without Borders: Gramscian perspectives on migration and civil society alliances (Pluto Press, 2016).